About Axia
Educating for a safer, healthier tomorrow
Axia is a medical academy built around one belief: safer care follows better-shared knowledge. We publish what practitioners need, in the form they can use on shift.
Our mission
A bridge between the paper and the ward
Evidence rarely fails because it is wrong. It fails because it never reaches the person holding the instrument at seven in the morning. Axia exists to close that distance: specialists write, the board reviews, and the result is short enough to read between cases.
Research and innovation sit at the centre of the academy. We work with laboratories, research centres and international partners so that new findings become protocols, teaching material and habits — not just citations.
What we hold to
Three commitments
They decide what gets published, what gets rewritten, and what we refuse to put our name on.
- Evidence Sources, always Every claim carries a reference and a date. If we cannot source it, we do not publish it.
- Usefulness Written for the shift Protocols fit on a page. Entries answer the question first and explain second.
- Openness Free for practitioners Core knowledge stays open to healthcare workers regardless of where they practise.
Knowledge that stays in a journal protects nobody.
Scientific board
Who reviews the work
Clinicians and researchers who carry the same responsibility as our readers, and sign off on every entry.
Prof. Marco Venturi
Microbiology
University Hospital, Milan
Dr Anna Kowalska
Infection control
Regional Medical Centre, Warsaw
Prof. David Anderson
Epidemiology
School of Public Health, Baltimore
Dr Leila Haddadi
Public health
American University of Beirut
Prof. Hiroshi Tanaka
Hospital hygiene
Kyoto University Hospital
Work with Axia
Write an entry, host a roundtable or bring a workshop to your hospital.