The Observatory for Public Health Policy and Organisation is supported pro bono by a 20-member 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
  • Achilleas Gravanis, Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete
  • Athanasios Vozikis –  Professor, Laboratory of Health Economics & Management, Department of Economics, University of Piraeus
  • Xenophon Contiades – Professor of Public Law and Social Security Law, Panteion University; President, Centre for European Constitutional Law
  • 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
  • Takis Panagiotopoulos – Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Child Health, University of West Attica
  • 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