Centre of Excellence "New Visions of the European Union's Role in Global Health" (EU4GH) is conceived as an interdepartmental high-quality research and teaching hub, aiming at placing itself in the national and international panorama as a focal point of expertise and knowledge on EU studies on global health issues. Its focus will rest on the external dimension of the European Health Union and the leading role that the EU plays as a key actor in the global health scenario, in accordance with the EU Global Health Strategy and in line with the European Commission's Priority "A stronger Union in the world".The Centre will bring together experts in EU and International Law with a long track record of academic work on EU and global health law, as well as high-level officers from Italian governmental institutions operating in the field of health. It will be led by the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Salerno and supported by the Department of Medicine, the Department of Pharmacy and the "Observatory on Human Rights: Bioethics, Health, Environment". It will avail itself of the advice and contribution offered by foreign internationally recognized experts and will closely collaborate with a large network of European, African and American academic associations, university departments and research centres.EU4GH aims to reach a broad range of beneficiaries through university courses and traineeship, webinars, open access publications and research outputs destined not only to students and academics, but also to lawyers, health professionals, public administrations, policy makers and law makers, civil servants and the civil society.