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:
Dr Nina Adelberger, Germany |
Prof Charles Agyemang, Netherlands |
Prof Tit Albreht, Slovenia |
Prof Kristina Alexanderson, Sweden |
Prof Peter Allebeck, Sweden |
Mrs Tatiana Alves, Portugal |
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 |
Prof Stefania Boccia, Italy |
Dr Marialaura Bonaccio, Italy |
Prof Bettina Borisch, Switzerland |
Dr Henrik Bøggild, Denmark |
Dr Richard Bränström, Sweden |
Mr Finn Breinholt Larsen, Denmark |
Dr Eric Breton, France |
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 |
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, United Kingdom |
Prof Nesrin Cilingiroglu, Türkiye |
Tiago Correia, Portugal |
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 |
Dr Lorena Dini, Germany |
Prof Julia Dratva, Switzerland |
Mr Gilles Dussault, Portugal |
Dr Ivan Erzen, Slovenia |
Dr Carlo Favaretti, Italy |
Prof Rainer Fehr, Germany |
Prof Patricia Fitzpatrick, Ireland |
Dr Silvia Florescu, Romania |
Dr Kimberley Foley, United Kingdom |
Mr Manuel Franco, Spain |
Dr Kate Frazer, Ireland |
Dr Emilie Friberg, Sweden |
Mr Marthein Gaasbeek Janzen, Netherlands |
Prof Maria Gańczak, Poland |
Mr Manuel García Goñi, Spain |
Prof Margarida Gaspar De Matos, Portugal |
Ms Jinane Ghattas, Belgium |
Dr Francesco Gianfagna, Italy |
Prof Mika Gissler, Finland |
Dr Abby Gold, United States |
Prof Beatriz González-Valcarcel, Spain |
Ms Vanessa Gorasso, Belgium |
Prof Marcus Grant, United Kingdom |
Dr Olivier Grimaud, France |
Prof Peter Groenewegen, Netherlands |
Prof Giuseppe Grosso, Italy |
Prof Ilona Grünberger, Sweden |
Dr Stefano Guicciardi, Italy |
Dr Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Spain |
Prof Catherine Hayes, Ireland |
Dr Henk Hilderink, Netherlands |
Anne Illemann Christensen, Denmark |
Prof Marta Cecilia Jaramillo-Mejia, Colombia |
Ms Catherine Jenkins, United Kingdom |
Prof Marija Jevtic, Serbia |
Prof Allan Krasnik, Denmark |
Dr Ellen Kuhlmann, Germany |
Dr Bernadette Kumar, Norway |
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 |
Prof Tomi Mäki-Opas, Finland |
Prof Julian Mamo, Malta |
Dr Marco Marchetti, Italy |
Dr Lovro Markovic, Austria |
Prof Piedad Martin-Olmedo, Spain |
Prof Carlos Matias Dias, Portugal |
Dr Odile Mekel, Germany |
Prof Anjum Memon, United Kingdom |
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 |
Prof Orkan Okan, Germany |
Ms Rana Orhan Pees, Netherlands |
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 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 |
Mrs Jutta Pulkki, Finland |
Prof Ossi Rahkonen, Finland |
Dr Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Australia |
Prof Andrea Rebecchi, Italy |
Dr Sofia Ribeiro, Portugal |
Prof Eva Roos, Finland |
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 |
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 Ilaria Tocco Tussardi, Italy |
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 |
Dr Marieke Verschuuren, Netherlands |
Prof Susana Viegas, Portugal |
Prof Paolo Villari, Italy |
Ms Verena Vogt, Germany |
Prof Anne Vuillemin, France |
Dr Georgina Warner, Sweden |
Mr Greg Williams, United Kingdom |
Prof Silviya Yankulovska, Germany |
Dr Dineke Zeegers Paget, Netherlands |