EPH Conference International Scientific Committee
The International Scientific Committee (ISC) is responsible for:
- Advising the EPH-EB on scientific matters of the conference;
- Scoring of all abstracts;
- Contributing to the scientific evaluation of the conference.
Members of the ISC are:
- key public health expert from every European country;
- representatives from the host country;
- representatives from the EUPHA sections;
- volunteers nominated by EUPHA members and partner organisations.
Members are nominated for a period of three years. Re-nomination is possible. The ISC has its annual meeting in November during 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.
Chair of the International Scientific Committee 2023 is Prof Regien Biesma-Blanco
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Regien Biesma (BSN, MSc, MSc, PhD) is Associate Professor of Global Maternal and Child Health at the Global Health Unit, Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, the Netherlands. She is an epidemiologist and public health specialist with a research focus on estimating and reducing the disparity gap in maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. She has a particular interest is global nutrition. Her work explores factors during (pre)pregnancy, birth outcomes, early child growth and health and disease later in life. At UMCG, she supervises PhD candidates, coordinates internships in social medicine and leads the advanced research master programme on Health Systems and Prevention. Before joining UMCG in 2018, she spent 11 years at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland where she lectured in Global Public Health and Epidemiology and worked on health systems and policy research in Africa and Asia. She was an invited expert for the World Health Organization expert consultation on maximising positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives. She is a research fellow at the Aletta School of Public Health, the Netherlands, member of the Working Group on International Nutrition in the Netherlands and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifecourse Nutrition Center, Agder University, Norway. |
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 |
Dr Marleen Bekker, 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, Turkey |
Dr Thomas Classen, Germany |
Prof Nadav Davidovitch, Israel |
Prof Judith de Jong, Netherlands |
Prof Luis de Souza, Brazil |
Prof Corrado De Vito, Italy |
Prof Chiara de Waure, Italy |
Dr Marie Delnord, Belgium |
Prof Sonia Dias, Portugal |
Prof Marie-Luise Dierks, Germany |
Dr Lorena Dini, 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 |
Prof Kate Hunt, United Kingdom |
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 Ramune Kalediene, Lithuania |
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 |
Dr Tomi Mäki-Opas, Finland |
Prof Julian Mamo, Malta |
Dr Marco Marchetti, Italy |
Mr Thomas Maribo, Denmark |
Prof Piedad Martin-Olmedo, Spain |
Prof Carlos Matias Dias, Portugal |
Dr Sara Mc Quinn, Ireland |
Dr Odile Mekel, Germany |
Prof Anjum Memon, United Kingdom |
Mrs Monika Mensing, Germany |
Dr Gabriele Messina, Italy |
Dr Ricardo Mexia, Portugal |
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 |
Dr Andre Peralta Santos, Portugal |
Prof Julian Perelman, Portugal |
Prof Ivan Perry, Ireland |
Dr Elena Petelos, Greece |
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 Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Australia |
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 |
Mr Rui Santana, 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 Stimac Grbic, 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 |
Dr Marieke Verschuuren, Netherlands |
Prof Susana Viegas, Portugal |
Prof Paolo Villari, Italy |
Ms Verena Vogt, Germany |
Prof Anne Vuillemin, France |
Dr Chadia Wannous, Sweden |
Dr Georgina Warner, Sweden |
Mr Greg Williams, United Kingdom |
Dr Jason Wu, Australia |
Prof Silviya Yankulovska, Bulgaria |
Dr Dineke Zeegers Paget, Netherlands |