LIST OF MEMBERS
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Adjunct Professor of Public and Health Administration at the Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, responsible for teaching programs in global health policy and governance;
Managerial experience in the English National Health Service;
Many years work with WHO in various capacities.

• Health Service policies and management;
• Public Health;
• Public Health Service policies, organizational structures, services, capacities and resources.

Honorary Director of the European Commission,
Member of the Executive Committee South-East Europe Stability Pact –Health Network, Member of the WHO-EURO Committee on Public Health.

• Health Service policies and management;
• Public Health;
• Environmental Health;
• Occupational Health;
• the European Union issues.

Director of Scientific Department in Tokuda Hospital Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Deputy Director and Head of Department of Health System functioning at the National Centre for Public Health and Analysis, Sofia.
Head of Department of Health System functioning at the National Centre of Public Health Protection – Sofia.

Russian speaking,
• Public Health;
• Public Health Service policies, organizational structures, services, capacities and resources;
• Accreditation of health services and entities.

Chair, IHPA Management Board

• Business administration and management;
• Project planning, management, monitoring, and evaluation;
• Public Health Services.

International Consultant in Nursing and Public Health.  Extensive experience at strategic and policy level in the English National Health Service. Former Adviser on Primary Care, Royal College of Nursing. Former Lead on nursing and primary care for London health care reforms.
Ten years with World Health Organisation as Regional Nursing Advisor including work on health systems. 

• Human resources for nursing and midwifery and more specifically public health nursing;
• Health systems goals and management;
• Public health nursing training and role development;
• Primary Care Team development.

Senior Research Associate (clinical epidemiology).
Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Private Professor (Psychology and Sociology of Substance Abuse and Addictions);
WHO consultant in Public Health and Addictions.

Russian speaking;
• Psychiatry;
• Public Health;
• Mental Health;
• Drug abuse and addictions.

Consultant, Public Health,  European Regional Office of WHO;
For 16 years a staff member of EURO/WHO.

Russian speaking;
• Health Service policies and management;
• Public Health;
• Public Health Service policies, organizational structures, services, capacities and resources.

Adviser on international affairs at the Economic and Social Affairs Council of Bulgaria (ESC);
Adviser to the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, the ESC and the Bulgarian Drug Agency.

Russian speaking;
• Pharmaceuticals;
• Health Service policies and management;
• Food Safety Agencies;
• Social affairs and health.

International Expert, Public Health Services;
Member, Executive Committee, South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN),
Former programme Manager, Public Health Services, WHO Regional Office for Europe;
Consultant to WHO Regional Office for Europe,
Co-opted member of the SEEHN Executive Committee.

Russian speaking;
• Health Service policies and management;
• Public Health and its organisaztion and legislation;
• Public Health Service policies, organizational structures, services, capacities, and resources.

Head of Department of Psychiatry in the Medical University in Sofia, Head of the Psychiatric clinic
Alexandrovska University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Russian speaking;
• Psychiatric genetics;
• Clinical psychopharmacology;
• Pharmacoprophylactics;
• Psychosocial rehabilitation;
• Public Health;
• Health education.

Former Secretary Deputy for Environmental Protection, Belgrade
Assistant Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Health, Serbia;
Head of WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (2013 - 2018)

• Occupational health and the environment;
• Governmental and parliamentary experience, Serbia:
• Health systems development and operational planning;
• Media communication.

Former Director, Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing at WHO Europe
Former Director of Healthy Cities programme at WHO Europe
Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London;
Honorary Professor, Centre for Public Policy and Health, University of Durham

• Health Service policies, strategy and governance;
• Seconded to the Greek Government for the Athens Olympics:
• Urban health and Healthy Cities;
• Social determinants of health and Equity.

Statistician/Epidemiologist
World Health Organization European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Moscow, Russian Federation

• Epidemiology;
• Statistics.

Head,Department Noncommunicable Diseases, National Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania.
Deputy National Coordinator of the South Easter Heath Network (former Stability Pact);
Co-editor for the National Public Health Strategy of Romania. Regional editor for Croatian Medical Journal and editor for Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.

• Design and implementation of health information systems;
• Health status evaluation;
• Public health strategies design.

Consultant on Non-communicble diseases for WHO in Kiev;
Health Care Quality Advisor for Italian National Agency for Healthcare Quality, Ukraine;
Freelance International Adviser to several Italian academic and non-governmental organisations;
Past lecturer to Harvard School of Public Health.

• Humanitarian aid for health;
• Emergencies in health;
• Health Policy Development; 
• Health Systems Analysis;
• Monitoring, Surveillance and Evaluation;
• Public Health Planning.

Senior Fellow of the Global Health Program at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland);
Chaired the Executive Board of WHO and involved in many of WHO and European Union's health initiatives. Senior policy advisor to the Director of WHO’s European Region.

• Health Service policies and management;
• Public Health policies and management;
• Health Service and Public Health Leadership.

Vice-Rector, Varna Medical University, Bulgaria;
Chair, European Union's Programme on Human Resources for Health Planning, forecasting and education.

• Health Service policies and management;
• Public Health policies and management;
• Health service and public health leadership;
• Public Health Training.

Former Professor at the Bielefeld School of Public Health;
Visiting Professor in Belgrade;
2010 – 2012 President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations;
For the last decade, he has worked for various public health projects in South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Near East and the Pacific Region. He organised the 12th World Congress on Public Health in Istanbul 2009, and the 13th in Addis Ababa.

• Public health education, policies, and management;
• Global health;
• Health policy.

Former Director, Public Health Services, State of Israel (ISR);
Former Director, Ministry of Health, ISR;
Professor at the Brown School of State of Israel; Jerusalem.

• Health systems policies and management;
• Public Health, its legislation and organisation;
• Public Health Service policies, organizational structures, services, capacities, and resources;
• Public health training;
• Emergencies in Public Health;

Professor Emeritus, Public Health Management, National School of Public Health, Athens;
Founding Dean, National School of Public Health, Athens;
Professor, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago.

• Health Service policies and management;
• Public Health, its organizational structures, services, capacities, and resources;
• Public Health Training.

University of Padua Medical School - Former Professor of Internal Medicine;
Former Non-communicable diseases/Mental Health WHO Scientist, Headquarters, Geneva.
As a Consultant since 2009, he has worked with the WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development in Venice, the Copenhagen-based WHO Healthy Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care Unit, and the WHO Department of Ageing and Life Course in Geneva. He collaborated with the Public Health Aspects of Migration in Europe team in Venice, and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society for Health Promotion. 

• Public Health;
• Non-communicable disease;
• Health Promotion;
• Healthy and Active Ageing;
• Sustainable Development Goals.

National and International work on public health nutrition, Regional Adviser on nutrition for several years to WHO Europe, and adviser to the National Health Services in Scotland;
Currently Lecturer and researcher in Public Health Nutrition at University College Copenhagen.

• Nutrition;
• Public Health and Nutritional education, training and research;
• Public Health Nutrition policies and related organizational structures, services, capacities, and resources.

Former Programme Manager for Health Promotion, WHO Europe
Former Director, Venice Office, WHO Europe
Freelance International Health systems/Public Health Expert.

• Public Health;
• Health Promotion;
• Non-communicable diseases;
• Social Determinants of Health;
• Investment for health.

Medical professional with over a decade of senior leadership experience in business, and, more recently in the national social protection and health administration;
Former Deputy Minister and Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family;
Former Minister of Health; International Consultant for WHO.

• Health Systems policies and management;
• HS Leadership;
• Business administration and  project management;
•  Pharmaceuticals and improving access to medicines;
• Social affairs and Health;
• Public Health Service policies, organizational structures, services, capacities and resources.

Elected board director Board (2017-), International College of Person Centered Medicine;
Head, Health Sector Reform Programme, Greece;
Professor International Health;
Former Coordinator, then Director (D2), Department for Health Systems Policies and Workforce (HPW), WHO Geneva;
Professor of Health Policy, Department of Public Health, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Belgium; etc.

• Health systems;
• Policy development and policy dialogue;
• Aid effectiveness;
• Health service organization and workforce;
• Institutional capacity development.