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
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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 |