EPH Conference International Scientific Committee
The International Scientific Committee (ISC) is responsible for:
- safeguarding the scientific quality of the content of the EPH Conference,
- scoring the abstracts submitted for presentation at the EPH Conference,
- providing advice to the organisers in all matters concerning research and science,
- contributing to the scientific evaluation of the conference.
The EPH Conference Executive Board appoints the chair of the ISC for the year of the conference, upon advice from the Local Support Committee. The ISC has its annual meeting in November during the conference.
ISC Internal rules are available here.
Chair of the International Scientific Committee 2024 is Prof Sónia Dias
Sónia Dias is Dean and Full Professor at the National School of Public Health, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal. She is public health specialist and a social scientist whose research focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, socio-behavioural insights and health literacy, with a particular interest in health inequalities and vulnerable populations. She is engaged in several projects aimed at understanding health needs and implementation of health-promoting interventions through participatory approaches in combination with quantitative and qualitative methods. Her work seeks to produce evidence for innovative policies and action strategies that address complex public health issues to improve populations’ health. She teaches doctoral and master courses on public health and health promotion. Previously she was director of the International Public Health Unit at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHTM), Lisbon, and coordinator of the doctoral programme ‘Challenges in the Health of Migrants’ at IHTM’s Global Health and Tropical Medicine research centre. She acts as an expert for ECDC, WHO and IOM. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the EUPHA Migrant and ethnic minority health section. |
Members of the ISC 2023:
Ms Mette Aadahl, Denmark |
Dr Oboh Achioyamen, United Kingdom |
Prof Róza Ádány, Hungary |
Dr Nina Adelberger, Germany |
Prof Charles Agyemang, Netherlands |
Prof Tit Albreht, Slovenia |
Prof Kristina Alexanderson, Sweden |
Prof Peter Allebeck, Sweden |
Mrs Tatiana Alves, Portugal |
Dr Gabriela Barbaglia, Spain |
Prof Ronald Batenburg, Netherlands |
Prof Fabrizio Bert, Italy |
Dr Regien Biesma, Netherlands |
Prof Johan Bilsen, Belgium |
Dr Christopher Birt, United Kingdom |
Prof Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Germany |
Petronille Bogaert, Belgium |
Dr Henrik Bøggild, Denmark |
Dr Richard Bränström, Sweden |
Prof Ute Bültmann, Netherlands |
Prof Genc Burazeri, Albania |
Prof Reinhard Busse, Germany |
Dr Stefan Buttigieg, Malta |
Dr John M Cachia, Malta |
Prof Stefano Capolongo, Italy |
Dr Marion Carey, Australia |
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, United Kingdom |
Prof Nesrin Cilingiroglu, Türkiye |
Dr Thomas Classen, Germany |
Prof Judith de Jong, Netherlands |
Prof Luis de Souza, Brazil |
Prof Chiara de Waure, Italy |
Prof Sonia Dias, Portugal |
Prof Marie-Luise Dierks, Germany |
Prof Helen Dolk, United Kingdom |
Prof Thomas Dorner, Austria |
Prof Julia Dratva, Switzerland |
Natalie Durbeej, Sweden |
Mr Gilles Dussault, Portugal |
Dr Ivan Erzen, Slovenia |
Dr Carlo Favaretti, Italy |
Prof Patricia Fitzpatrick, Ireland |
Dr Silvia Florescu, Romania |
Dr Kimberley Foley, United Kingdom |
Dr Birger Forsberg, Sweden |
Dr Kate Frazer, Ireland |
Mr Marthein Gaasbeek Janzen, Netherlands |
Prof Maria Gańczak, Poland |
Mr Manuel García Goñi, Spain |
Prof Margarida Gaspar De Matos, Portugal |
Dr Francesco Gianfagna, Italy |
Prof Mika Gissler, Finland |
Dr Abby Gold, United States |
Prof Beatriz González-Valcarcel, Spain |
Ms Vanessa Gorasso, Belgium |
Dr Olivier Grimaud, France |
Prof Peter Groenewegen, Netherlands |
Prof Giuseppe Grosso, Italy |
Prof Ilona Grünberger, Sweden |
Dr Stefano Guicciardi, Italy |
Prof Catherine Hayes, Ireland |
Dr Henk Hilderink, Netherlands |
Anne Illemann Christensen, Denmark |
Mr Damir Ivankovic, Netherlands |
Dr Marija Jakubauskiene, Lithuania |
Dr Danielle Jansen, Netherlands |
Prof Marta Cecilia Jaramillo-Mejia, Colombia |
Prof Marija Jevtic, Serbia |
Prof Allan Krasnik, Denmark |
Dr Ellen Kuhlmann, Germany |
Dr Bernadette Kumar, Norway |
Prof Tobias Kurth, Germany |
Hannamaria Kuusio, Finland |
Prof Giuseppe La Torre, Italy |
Prof Lucie Laflamme, Sweden |
Prof Tea Lallukka, Finland |
Dr Teresa Leão, Portugal |
Dr Andreia Leite, Portugal |
Prof Alastair Leyland, United Kingdom |
Prof Jutta Lindert, Germany |
Dr Johan Lund, Norway |
Dr Alejandra Machado, Sweden |
Dr Els Maeckelberghe, Netherlands |
Prof Tomi Mäki-Opas, Finland |
Prof Julian Mamo, Malta |
Mr Thomas Maribo, Denmark |
Prof Piedad Martin-Olmedo, Spain |
Dr Sara McQuinn, Ireland |
Prof Anjum Memon, United Kingdom |
Dr Gabriele Messina, Italy |
Mrs Joana Moreno, Portugal |
Dr Anne Mosnier Mantel, France |
Dr Iveta Nagyova, Slovakia |
Prof Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Ireland |
Dr Emer O'Connell, Ireland |
Prof Anna Odone, Italy |
Prof Orkan Okan, Germany |
Mr Kasper Olesen, Denmark |
Prof Nüket Paksoy Erbaydar, Turkey |
Dr Maria Papadakaki, Greece |
Dr Roberta Pastorino, Italy |
Prof Andre Peralta Santos, Portugal |
Prof Julian Perelman, Portugal |
Prof Ivan Perry, Ireland |
Dr Angelo Maria Pezzullo, Italy |
Dr Péter Pikó, Hungary |
Dr Paulo Pinheiro, Germany |
Dr Valérie Pittet, Switzerland |
Klaus D. Pluemer, Germany |
Prof Ileana Prejbeanu, Romania |
Prof Ossi Rahkonen, Finland |
Dr Bina Ram, United Kingdom |
Prof Oliver Razum, Germany |
Prof Andrea Rebecchi, Italy |
Prof Ralf Reintjes, Germany |
Dr Sofia Ribeiro, Portugal |
Prof Eva Roos, Finland |
Dr Nicole Rosenkötter, Germany |
Prof Luís Saboga-Nunes, Portugal |
Prof João Vasco Santos, Portugal |
Prof Milena Šantrić Milićević, Serbia |
Prof Sonia Saxena, United Kingdom |
Dr Mathilde Sengoelge, Sweden |
Prof Andreia Silva da Costa, Portugal |
Dr Natalia Skogberg, Finland |
Dr Signe Smith Jervelund, Denmark |
Prof Paulo Sousa, Portugal |
Prof Anthony Staines, Ireland |
Prof Danijela Štimac Grbić, Croatia |
Prof Christiane Stock, Germany |
Prof Saverio Stranges, Canada |
Prof Birute Strukcinskiene, Lithuania |
Dr Sakari Suominen, Finland |
Prof Pernille Tanggaard Andersen, Denmark |
Dr Louise T. Thomsen, Denmark |
Dr Hanna Tolonen, Finland |
Dr Marius-Ionuț Ungureanu, Romania |
Dr Peter Van Den Hazel, Netherlands |
Dr Arjan van der Star, Sweden |
Dr Aurélie Van Hoye, Ireland |
Dr Paula Vassallo, Malta |
Dr M Luisa Vázquez Navarrete, Spain |
Prof Arnoud Verhoeff, Netherlands |
Prof Susana Viegas, Portugal |
Prof Paolo Villari, Italy |
Ms Verena Vogt, Germany |
Mr Greg Williams, United Kingdom |
Dr Jason Wu, Australia |
Prof Silviya Yankulovska, Germany |
Dr Dineke Zeegers Paget, Netherlands |