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 2025 is Tea Lallukka

Tea Lallukka is Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Helsinki (Finland), and PI of the Helsinki Health Study, an occupational cohort followed up since 2000 (helsinki.fi/hhs). She is also an Associate at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, an invited expert of the Global Burden of Disease project, and an Honorary Professor at the University College London. A majority of her studies has been conducted using cohort and registry data. She has also participated in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Her key areas of interest are related to socioeconomic inequalities in health, working conditions, health behaviours, sleep, mental and musculoskeletal health, sickness absence, retirement and ageing, and conducting international comparisons. She additionally has a long expertise in collecting survey data.

Members of the ISC 2025:

Dr Oboh Achioyamen, United Kingdom
Prof Róza Ádány, Hungary
Dr Nina Adelberger, Germany
Ms Isabel Aguilar Palacio, Spain
Prof Charles Agyemang, Netherlands
Prof Tit Albreht, Slovenia
Prof Kristina Alexanderson, Sweden
Prof Peter Allebeck, Sweden
Mrs Tatiana Alves, Portugal
Dr Frank Michael Amort, Austria
Dr Valentina Andreeva, France
Dr Marleen Bekker, Netherlands
Prof David Bermejo-Martínez, Spain
Prof Fabrizio Bert, Italy
Dr Regien Biesma, Netherlands
Prof Johan Bilsen, Belgium
Dr Christopher Birt, United Kingdom
Prof Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Germany
Prof Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Serbia
Prof Stefania Boccia, Italy
Dr Marialaura Bonaccio, Italy
Dr Richard Bränström, Sweden
Dr Eric Breton, France
Dr Monica Brînzac, Romania
Prof Ute Bültmann, Netherlands
Prof Genc Burazeri, Albania
Dr Stefan Buttigieg, Malta
Dr John M Cachia, Malta
Prof Stefano Capolongo, Italy
Dr Marion Carey, Australia
Elisa Chilet Rosell, Spain
Dr Cristina Chircop, Malta
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, United Kingdom
Prof Nesrin Cilingiroglu, Türkiye
Dr Thomas Classen, Germany
Mr Karl F Conyard, Ireland
Prof Tiago Correia, Portugal
Prof Kevin Dadaczynski, Germany
Prof Nadav Davidovitch, Israel
Prof Judith de Jong, Netherlands
Prof Corrado De Vito, Italy
Prof Chiara de Waure, Italy
Prof Sonia Dias, Portugal
Dr Lorena Dini, Germany
Prof Igor Dragičević, Serbia
Prof Julia Dratva, Switzerland
Maaike Droogers, Netherlands
Mr Gilles Dussault, Portugal
Urška Erklavec, Slovenia
Dr Ivan Erzen, Slovenia
Dr Michelle Falkenbach, Belgium
Dr Kristin Farrants, Sweden
Dr Carlo Favaretti, Italy
Prof Patricia Fitzpatrick, Ireland
Dr Silvia Florescu, Romania
Dr Kimberley Foley, United Kingdom
Dr Birger Forsberg, Sweden
Dr Ayman Fouda, Austria
Mr Manuel Franco, Spain
Dr Kate Frazer, Ireland
Dr Emilie Friberg, Sweden
Mr Daniel G. Abiétar , Spain
Mr Marthein Gaasbeek Janzen, Netherlands
Prof Maria Gańczak, Poland
Mr Manuel García Goñi, Spain
Dr Francesco Gianfagna, Italy
Dr Vincenza Gianfredi, Italy
Dr Konstantinos Giannakou, Cyprus
Prof Mika Gissler, Finland
Dr Abby Gold, United States
Prof Beatriz González-Valcarcel, Spain
Dr Vanessa Gorasso, Belgium
Prof Gena Grancharova, Bulgaria
Prof Marcus Grant, United Kingdom
Dr Olivier Grimaud, France
Prof Giuseppe Grosso, Italy
Prof Ilona Grünberger, Sweden
Dr Stefano Guicciardi, Italy
Dr Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Spain
Dr Gunnel Hensing, Sweden
Dr Henk Hilderink, Netherlands
Prof Kate Hunt, United Kingdom
Mr Damir Ivankovic, Netherlands
Prof Marta Cecilia Jaramillo-Mejia, Colombia
Dr Catherine Jenkins, United Kingdom
Prof Vida Jeremic Stojkovic, Serbia
Prof Marija Jevtic, Serbia
Dr Jaime Jiménez-Pernett, Spain
Prof Ramune Kalediene, Lithuania
Mr Lukas Kerschbaumer, Austria
Prof Ilmo Keskimäki, Finland
Dr Ourania Kolokotroni, Cyprus
Prof Allan Krasnik, Denmark
Dr Ellen Kuhlmann, Germany
Dr Bernadette Kumar, Norway
Dr Hannamaria Kuusio, Finland
Prof Tea Lallukka, Finland
Dr Persefoni Lambrou, Cyprus
Dr Andreia Leite, Portugal
Prof Alastair Leyland, United Kingdom
Prof Jutta Lindert, Germany
Ms Dimitra Lingri, Greece
Dr Johan Lund, Norway
Dr Alejandra Machado, Sweden
Ms Marie Henriette Madsen, Denmark
Prof Tomi Mäki-Opas, Finland
Dr Tatjana Makovski, France
Prof Julian Mamo, Malta
Dr Stefan Mandić-Rajčević, Serbia
Prof Thomas Maribo, Denmark
Dr Lovro Markovic, Austria
Prof Piedad Martin-Olmedo, Spain
Dr Odile Mekel, Germany
Prof Anjum Memon, United Kingdom
Monika Mensing, Germany
Prof Gabriele Messina, Italy
Dr Ricardo Mexia, Portugal
Dr Nicos Middleton, Cyprus
Dr Joana Moreno, Portugal
Dr Anne Mosnier Mantel, France
Dr Iveta Nagyova, Slovakia
Prof Nicola Nante, Italy
Prof Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Ireland
Prof Orkan Okan, Germany
Mr Kasper Olesen, Denmark
Mr Marc Olivella, Spain
Prof Nüket Paksoy Erbaydar, Türkiye
Dr Maria Papadakaki, Greece
Dr Roberta Pastorino, Italy
Prof Andre Peralta Santos, Portugal
Prof Julian Perelman, Portugal
Mr Juan Francisco Pérez Gálvez, Spain
Dr Elena Petelos, Greece
Dr Angelo Maria Pezzullo, Italy
Ms Camila A Picchio, Spain
Dr Péter Pikó, Hungary
Dr Paulo Pinheiro, Germany
Dr Valérie Pittet, Switzerland
Klaus D. Pluemer, Germany
Prof Ileana Prejbeanu, Romania
Dr Jutta Pulkki, Finland
Prof Ossi Rahkonen, Finland
Prof Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Australia
Dr Bina Ram, United Kingdom
Prof Oliver Razum, Germany
Prof Andrea Rebecchi, Italy
Dr Sofia Ribeiro, Portugal
Prof Eva Roos, Finland
Prof Luís Saboga-Nunes, Portugal
Prof João Vasco Santos, Portugal
Prof Milena Šantrić Milićević, Serbia
Dr Antonio Sarría-Santamera, Kazakhstan
Mr Eduardo Satue de Velasco, Spain
Prof Sonia Saxena, United Kingdom
Prof Peter Schröder-Bäck, Germany
Dr Mathilde Sengoelge, Sweden
Prof Andreia Silva da Costa, Portugal
Dr Signe Smith Jervelund, Denmark
Prof Paulo Sousa, Portugal
Dr Marijana Srećković, Serbia
Prof Anthony Staines, Ireland
Dr Carin Staland-Nyman, Sweden
Aleksandar Stevanović, Serbia
Prof Danijela Štimac Grbić, Croatia
Prof Saverio Stranges, Canada
Prof Birute Strukcinskiene, Lithuania
Prof Sakari Suominen, Finland
Prof Mary Rose Sweeney, Ireland
Prof Pernille Tanggaard Andersen, Denmark
Dr Louise T. Thomsen, Denmark
Dr Ilaria Tocco Tussardi, Italy
Dr Hanna Tolonen, Finland
Dr Anna Tyrańska-Fobke, Poland
Dr Marius-Ionuț Ungureanu, Romania
Ms Rosa Maria Urbanos Garrido, Spain
Dr Peter Van Den Hazel, Netherlands
Dr Arjan van der Star, United States
Dr Aurélie Van Hoye, Ireland
Prof Desislava Vankova, Bulgaria
Dr Pauline Vassallo, Malta
Dr M Luisa Vázquez Navarrete, Spain
Prof Arnoud Verhoeff, Netherlands
Dr Marieke Verschuuren, Netherlands
Prof Ana Vieira, Portugal
Prof Paolo Villari, Italy
Dr Greg Williams, United Kingdom
Dr Yongjie Yon, Denmark
Dr Dineke Zeegers Paget, Netherlands