Dr Danilo Buonsenso is a Physician Scientist and a specialist in Infectious Diseases in Children. Dr Buonsenso currently works at the Department of Woman, Child and Public Health at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome.  He has a PhD in Public Health and Biomolecular Sciences and is currently doing his MSc in Infectious Disease at Oxford University.

During the pandemic his work extended to the clinical impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children from acute disease, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or MIS-C and Long COVID.

He is a founder and President of the not for profit organisation Surf4Children, which provides medical support for children in Sierra Leone and special needs support for children in Italy.  He is also a ‘champion’ of the charity Long COVID Kids.