{"id":17671,"date":"2025-09-16T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodossaki.gr\/?page_id=17671"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:43:30","slug":"scientific-amp-steering-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bodossaki.gr\/en\/our-initiatives\/observatory-for-public-health-policy-and-organisation\/scientific-amp-steering-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific &#038; Steering Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"541\">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:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Scientific Committee<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"588\">Agis Tsouros<\/strong> \u2013former Director of Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing, WHO Europe; Adjunct Professor, Global Health, University of Boston; Chair of the Steering &amp; Scientific Committees of the Observatory for Public Health Policy and Organisation; Chair of the Steering &amp; Scientific Committees<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"804\">Dimosthenis Sarigiannis<\/strong> \u2013 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<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"989\" data-end=\"1008\">George Chrousos<\/strong> \u2013 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<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"1187\" data-end=\"1210\">Eleftherios Thireos<\/strong> \u2013 \u00a0General 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<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"1444\" data-end=\"1462\">Evangelia Nena<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Public Health \/ Social Medicine \/ Occupational Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Member of the Steering Committee<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1653\">Joao Breda<\/strong> \u2013 Head of the World Health Organisation \/ Greece<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kostas Athanassakis,<\/strong> Associate Professor in Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment at the Department of Public Health Policy of the University of West Attica<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ioannis Boletis,<\/strong> Professor Emeritus of \u0399nternal Medicine and Nephrology of the University of Athens Medical School, President, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph_style\"><strong data-start=\"1866\" data-end=\"1888\">Xenophon Contiades<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Public Law and Social Security Law, Panteion University; President, Centre for European Constitutional Law<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph_style\"><strong>Achilleas Gravanis<\/strong>, Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2016\" data-end=\"2036\">Phoebe Koundouri<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Sustainable Development, Athens University of Economics and Business; Director, Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2208\" data-end=\"2229\">Ilias Kyriopoulos<\/strong> \u2013 Assistant Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2340\" data-end=\"2359\">Christos Lionis<\/strong> \u2013 Professor Emeritus of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2472\" data-end=\"2491\">Elias Mossialos<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Health Policy, London School of Economics (LSE); Director of LSE Health<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2582\" data-end=\"2597\">Elpida Pavi<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Health Economics, Dean of the School of Public Health, University of West Attica<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2699\" data-end=\"2724\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Sokratis<\/span> Papageorgiou<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Neurology and Neuropsychology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1st University Department of Neurology, Aeginiteio University Hospital<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2825\" data-end=\"2853\">Demosthenes Panagiotakos<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harokopio University<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"3042\" data-end=\"3066\">Konstantinos Serraos<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of Urban Planning, Urban Design and Resilience, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Architect &#8211; Urban Planner<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"3197\" data-end=\"3219\">Kyriakos Souliotis<\/strong> \u2013 <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Professor of Health Policy, Dean of the School of Social &amp; 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