Members of the NCD Advisory Council
The current composition of the WHO Regional Director for Europe’s Advisory Council on Innovation for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Advisory Council) is as follows:
Chair
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe
Members
Name | Title and organization |
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Professor Rifat Atun | Professor of Global Health Systems and Faculty Chair for the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program, Harvard University, United States of America |
Ms Birgit Beger | Chief Executive Officer of the European Heart Network (EHN) |
Ms Mariona Borell Arrasa | Regional Director for Europe of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) |
Professor Sergey Boytsov | Director General of the National Medical Research Centre for Cardiology, Russian Federation |
Professor Stefano Del Prato | President of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) |
Professor Paul Dendale | Head of the Department of Cardiology, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium, and member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) |
Dr Nathalie Farpour-Lambert | President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) |
Professor Adalberto Campos Fernandes | Professor of Health Strategies at the National School of Public Health, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and former Minister of Health of Portugal |
Dr Tom Frieden | President and Chief Executive Officer of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies |
Professor Amiran Gamkrelidze | Director General of the National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health, Georgia |
Ms Monique Goyens | Director General of the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) |
Professor Eva Hummers | Honorary Secretary of the World Organization of Family Doctors, Europe (WONCA Europe) |
Ms Génon Jensen | Executive Director of the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) |
Professor Sanja Musić Milanović | Medical School of the University of Zagreb, Head of the Health Promotion Division, Croatian Institute of Public Health, and First Lady of Croatia |
Dr Iveta Nagyova | President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) |
Professor Jürgen Rehm | Head of the Epidemiological Research Unit at Dresden University of Technology, Germany |
Professor Franco Sassi | Professor of International Health Policy and Economics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom |
Professor Veronika Skvortsova | Head of the Federal Agency, Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), and former Minister of Health of the Russian Federation |
Professor Benoît Vallet | Director General of the Regional Health Agency of Hauts-de-France, France |
Professor Aurelijus Veryga | Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Health Affairs and former Minister of Health of Lithuania |
Professor Maxim Yermalovich | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to the United Kingdom, and former Minister of Finance of Belarus |