The Observatory for Public Health Policy and Organisation is supported pro bono by a Scientific Committee, composed of distinguished experts from Greece and abroad in the interdisciplinary, academic, and professional fields of Public Health. The work of the Observatory is managed by its five-member Steering Committee, which is composed of the following members of the Scientific Committee:

Scientific Committee

  • Agis Tsouros –former Director of Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing, WHO Europe; Adjunct Professor, Global Health, University of Boston; Chair of the Steering & Scientific Committees of the Observatory for Public Health Policy and Organisation; Chair of the Steering & Scientific Committees
  • Dimosthenis Sarigiannis – Chairman of the Board of the National Hellenic Research Foundation; Professor of Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee and Member of the Steering Committee
  • George Chrousos – President of the Executive Board of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Member of the Academy of Athens; Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics and Endocrinology, University of Athens; Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee and Member of the Steering Committee
  • Eleftherios Thireos –  General Practitioner / Family Physician; Greek NHS Director; President of the Athens Medical Society; Head of the General Directorate of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Heath; Member of the Steering Committee
  • Evangelia Nena – Professor of Public Health / Social Medicine / Occupational Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Member of the Steering Committee
  • Joao Breda – Head of the World Health Organisation / Greece
  • Kostas Athanassakis, Associate Professor in Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment at the Department of Public Health Policy of the University of West Attica
  • Ioannis Boletis, Professor Emeritus of Ιnternal Medicine and Nephrology of the University of Athens Medical School, President, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center
  • Xenophon Contiades – Professor of Public Law and Social Security Law, Panteion University; President, Centre for European Constitutional Law
  • Achilleas Gravanis, Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete
  • Phoebe Koundouri – Professor of Sustainable Development, Athens University of Economics and Business; Director, Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability
  • Ilias Kyriopoulos – Assistant Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • Christos Lionis – Professor Emeritus of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete
  • Elias Mossialos – Professor of Health Policy, London School of Economics (LSE); Director of LSE Health
  • Elpida Pavi – Professor of Health Economics, Dean of the School of Public Health, University of West Attica
  • Sokratis Papageorgiou – Professor of Neurology and Neuropsychology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1st University Department of Neurology, Aeginiteio University Hospital
  • Demosthenes Panagiotakos – Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harokopio University
  • Konstantinos Serraos – Professor of Urban Planning, Urban Design and Resilience, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Architect – Urban Planner
  • Kyriakos Souliotis – Professor of Health Policy, Dean of the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Peloponnese
  • Nikos Stefanis – Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Stavroula Tsinorema – Professor of Modern & Contemporary Philosophy and Bioethics, Director of the Centre of Bioethics, University of Crete
  • Athanasios Vozikis –  Professor, Laboratory of Health Economics & Management, Department of Economics, University of Piraeus