Professor Alenka Kraigher

Professor Kraigher is Professor of Epidemiology at Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana Slovenia. From 1994 to 2017 she was head of Communicable Diseases Center at the National Institute of Public Health Slovenia and national coordinator for communicable diseases surveillance and immunization. She was coordinator of several research projects in the field of public health, in particular in vaccine-preventable diseases. She is a member of the editorial board of the Slovenian Journal of Public Health.

Professor Kraigher's main research interests include communicable diseases epidemiology, immunization, risk communication and preparedness planning.