speakers | II ŚWIATOWA KONFERENCJA ZDROWIA RODZINY

Leif Edvard Aarø

Leif Edvard Aarø, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Department of Health Promotion, Norwgian Institute of Public Health, previously Professor of Social Psychology, University of Bergen. Aarø was among the initiators of the WHO Study on Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children. He has evaluated behaviour change interventions in Norway and sub-Saharan Africa. He has received the Golden Honorary Award of the Health Promotion Foundation of Poland.

Andrii Bazylewicz

President of the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations (since 2016). Prof. Andrii Bazylevych is currently a Professor of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (since 2013) Since 2019 he is visiting Professor of The President Stanislaw Wojciechowski Calisia University (Poland). Prof. Bazylevych received his medical degree from Lviv National Medical University (1983-1989). He qualified as a medical doctor and and received specializations in internal medicine (1991) and public health and health service management (1996). He has Master of Public Administration Mastership at Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine, (1999-2002). He also received his Phd in cardiology in Bohomolets National Medical University (Kyiv, 1999). Since 1998 he has been used as a principal investigator and co- investigator in clinical and epidemiological studies. Initiated the inclusion of Ukraine and participated in non-commercial epidemiological studies EUROASPIRE-IV (2012-2014), EUROASPIRE-V (2016-2017), which studied the spread of cardiovascular disease in 27 European countries. Developed and managed the creation of TERENKUR in the Regional Park “Znesinnia” in Lviv (2019-2020). Prof. Bazylevych is the former vice-rector for treatment and prevention at work at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (2015-2018).He held the position of the Head of the Department of Health Management at the Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration (2000-2013). Professional qualifications “Caring Physicians of the World Leadership Course”. WMA – INSEAD, Singapore (2010). “Training in Health Management”. The International Training Programme HSD-2006, Stockholm, Sweden, (2006). Membership of European Society of Cardiology, Membership of board of Ukrainian Association of Family medicine and of Ukrainian Medical Association, Prof. Bazylevych was the president of the Ukrainian Medical Association in Lviv (2009-2013 and 2015-2017). Honorary Ambassador of Lviv (since 2018). 285 major publications (in therapy, cardiology, family medicine and Public Health). Index Hirsha in Scopus – 10, Index Hirsha in Web of Science – 18, Index Hirsha in Google Scholar – 19. Citation in Scopus – 7812, Citation in Web of Science – 17008, Citation in Google Scholar – 26920. International Award ‘ZŁOTE PŁUCA’ (2019) Order of St. Panteleimon in the nomination “For achievements in international cooperation in health care” (2021).

Ruth Bitton

Ruth Bitton; Senior Midwife, Western Galilee Medical Center, Director of Midwifery education northern region ,Clinical preceptor Prenatal and Breastfeeding consultant. Ruth was born in New York, and immigrated to Israel with her family in 1973. She lived on Kibbutz Maagan Michael, a collective community unique to Israel, located on the sea coast between Haifa and Tel Aviv and received her high school degree at the Kibbutz regional high school. Ruth completed her nursing degree and midwifery training prior to her military service and served as a midwife at the Western Galilee Hosp. Ruth has been part of the midwifery staff since 1982 and has held a variety of positions , among these , deputy head nurse and head nurse of labor and delivery, clinical preceptor and breast feeding and prenatal consultant. Since 2010 Ruth has led 7 Midwifery courses at the school of advanced nursing in Haifa. Each course extending over one year and training an average of 30 new midwives. Between courses she took a break from the hospital to be part of a Startup team ( medCPU, Inc.) developing a program designed to improve decision making in obstetrics. She now has returned to the Labor and delivery dept. She is and always has been an active lecturer in the field of midwifery. Ruth lives in Maalot Tarshiha, a city in the Western Galilee, 20 kilometers east of Nahariya. The city was established in 1963 through a municipal merger of the Arab town of Tarshiha and the Jewish town of Ma’alot. She is married to Michael, has 4 sons and 4 grandchildren.

Luis Javier Capote-Pérez

Luis Javier Capote-Pérez is a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of La Laguna. His research interests include tourism, Land Register, family law, cultural and intellectual property and gender perspective of private law. Professor Capote-Pérez is a member of many university institutions, like Cultural Cathedra “Francisco Tomás y Valiente” or “Radio Campus” – the oldest university radio station in Spain – of the University of La Laguna. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the “Santander Art and Culture Law Review” and of UNESCO Cultural Chair “Cultural Property Law” of the University of Opole. He has been Acting Judge at the Appellation Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife since 2006. He works also in the area of divulgation, acting as a member of the Scientific Divulgation Cultural Chair of the University of La Laguna and creating many materials for legal divulgation. Some of these materials are available in audiovisual format in ULLMedia, the YouTube channel of the University of La Laguna. Prof. Capote-Pérez may be contacted at lcapote@ull.es.

Leonardo Chavane

Leonardo Chavane is a Mozambican physician, public health specialist, holding a master’s in public health and a PhD in Health Sciences. Has 25 years of combined clinical and public health experience. His areas of interest include Health Policy development and evaluation, Health Systems and Services organization, management, and evaluation with a focus on Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive health including the integration of maternal and reproductive health and HIV AIDS programs. He held several managerial positions and consultancies. At the Ministry of Health. he started his career in 1997 as Medical Office and District Health Team Director in Cabo Delgado Province. Then he was appointed as Province Medical Chief in Zambezia Province and followed by the position of Province Health Director in Niassa Province. From 2008 to 2012 he was appointed National Deputy Director of Public Health. Under this function, he supervised the Maternal and Child Health programs, The Health Promotion Department and Nutrition Department, the Reproductive health and enlarged program for immunization. Dr Chavane has an extensive University Lecturing experience for undergraduate, Master, and supervision of Doctoral Students including research activities that resulted in publications in peer-reviewed journals mainly in the area of Reproductive and Maternal Health.

Inese Gobiņa

Inese Gobiņa (MScPh, Dr. med.) is assoc. prof. at the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology and researcher at the Institute of Public Health in Riga Stradiņš University (Latvia). Her background is in public health, with a focus on health promotion, and her primary areas of research are health behaviours and adolescent health. Population mortality changes have become a recent focus of research following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Laura Isajeva

Laura Isajeva is a Public Health specialist and a researcher in the addiction field. Graduate Master in Public health at Riga Stradins University and current PhD student in medicine. The research interests are epidemiology of associated risk factors and outcomes of problem drug use and alcohol abuse. In recent years worked as an addiction researcher and policymaker at the CDC of Latvia.

Kinga Janik-Koncewicz

Kinga Janik-Koncewicz (M.Sc., PhD student) is a research assistant at the Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, Calisia University, Kalisz, Poland. Her main interest is monitoring consumption of tobacco and alcohol and epidemiology of tobacco- and alcohol-related health burden in Poland. She’s a Lead Assistant Editor at the Journal of Health Inequalities and Project Director at the Health Promotion Foundation.

Prof. Zbigniew Krysiak

He is a professor of finance at the Warsaw School of Economics and the author of over 140 publications and over 100 scientific reviews. He is a visiting professor at universities in the USA and India. He has over 25 years of experience in the practice of economic life, performing such functions as: vice president and acting president of the management board of the Bank Guarantee Fund, vice president of Inteligo Bank, advisor to the president of PKO BP, vice president of AIG Bank Polska. He was an economic expert at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda. He is an expert in the field of economics for the Parliamentary Research Bureau. He was a member of the Mortgage Funding Expert Group (MFEG) at the European Commission. He is a member of the jury awarding awards for innovative projects in various industries, including in banking, insurance and energy. He is a commentator on economic and social life in Poland and around the world for such media as: TVP, TV Polsat, TVP3, Polish Radio, PR24, TV Republika, TV Trwam, Radio Warszawa, Radio Wnet, Radio Poznań, Radio Opole, Nasz Dziennik , Parkiet, Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Prawna, Real Estate Financing, Networks, TV wPolsce.pl, wPolityce.pl, Tysol.pl, Tygodnik Solidarność. He is a speaker at numerous scientific and economic conferences, including Congress 590, the Economic Forum in Krynica, Europe of the Carpathians, the Business Forum of the Three Seas Summit and the Development Vision Forum. He is the Chairman of the Program Council of the Institute of Schuman Thought, which promotes and implements the ideas of the Servant of God Robert Schuman into social life. The Institute of Schuman Thoughts runs such works as: John Paul II and Robert Schuman Universal University of Christian and Social Education, Pan-European Schuman Group, Parliamentary Schuman Groups, Christmas Eve Without Borders, Heart Community, Easter Without Borders, European Schuman Festival, Prayer Without Borders, Model of industry integration in the development of trade and investments between Poland and India in the agri-food sector, Industry Implementation Centers.

Dr. Vaida Liutkute-Gumarov

Dr. Vaida Liutkute-Gumarov is a researcher at Health Research Institute Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. As public health professional Vaida has 8+ years of research experience in non-communicable disease prevention and 10+ years is actively involved in the work of Lithuanian Tobacco and Alcohol Control Coalition, that promotes and advocates for evidence-based tobacco and alcohol control policies.

mgr Zofia Małas

The director of the Main Council of Nurses and Midwives. A graduate nurse, a specialist in the preventive and epidemiologic nursing; alumni of the Medical University of Łódź. Her activity prioritizes the high quality of education of nurses and midwives, both before and after graduation, which directly influences the quality of health care, and most importantly, the safety of patients, nurses, and midwives. She is a member of the volunteer board of the national health debate „Wspólnie dla Zdrowia (Together for health – translation)”, as well as many teams, commissions, and committees working close to the Health Minister, i.a. Board for creating development strategies for nursing and midwifery development in Poland.

Martin McKee

Martin McKee qualified in medicine in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with subsequent training in internal medicine and public health. He is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he founded the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), a WHO Collaborating Centre. He is also research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Past President of the European Public Health Association. He has published over 1,200 academic papers and 46 books and his contributions to European health policy have been recognised by, among others, election to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, Academia Europeae, and the US National Academy of Medicine, by the award of honorary doctorates from Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK and visiting professorships at universities in Europe and Asia, the 2003 Andrija Stampar medal for contributions to European public health, in 2014 the Alwyn Smith Prize for outstanding contributions to the health of the population, and in 2015 the Donabedian International Award for contributions to quality of care. In 2005 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He has an active following on Twitter as @martinmckee

Dr Jarosław Neneman

Jarosław Neneman (Ph. D) is an assistant professor at Faculty of Economics and Sociology at University of Lodz, earlier at Lazarski University in Warsaw. In years 2004 – 2005, 2006 and 2014-2015 Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Finance responsible for tax policy and legislation. In years 2010-2014 voluntary counselor to the Polish President dealing with local governments. Since 2011 Chairman of the Council of the Center of Tax Documentation and Studies Foundation in Lodz. While not working for the Ministry of Finance, he teaches Microeconomics, Public Finance, Managerial Economics, Introduction to Game Theory and Tax Policy, alongside writing reports on tax issues and textbooks on applied economics for students.

Iveta Pudule

Iveta Pudule works in the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia. She has been involved in several research projects as principal investigator, including: the Health Behavior Monitoring Surveys of Latvian Adult Population since 1998, the Health Behavior Study of School-aged Children (HBSC) since 2002, the WHO Global Youth Tobacco survey since 2001. Member of National Tobacco control council.

Dr. Jürgen Rehm

Dr. Jürgen Rehm is Senior Scientist in the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH. He is Professor and was the Inaugural Chair of Addiction Policy in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and he also holds professorships and positions in Germany, Spain and Russia

Liat Safri

Liat Safri; Deputy Head Midwife ,Western Galilee Medical Center ,Clinical Preceptor, Quality Assurance Coordinator. Liat was born and grew up with her family in the city of Sefat, one of the oldest settlements in the Galilee, known as one of the four sacred cities in Israel. She completed her high school education at the Sefad Regional High School. In October 2011, Israel’s fifth medical school opened in Safed along with two Nursing schools that already exist. Sefad also has a large number of galleries and workshops run by individual artists and art vendors. After completing her national service (in the Western Galilee Hosp Labor dept) Liat continued her education and Bachelor’s degree as a Registered Nurse in Safed and later trained to be a Midwife at the Rambam School of advanced Nursing in Haifa. Following her studies Liat returned to the Maternity Dept in Western Galilee Hosp where she has been working since 1999. For the past 4 years Liat has held the position of Deputy Head Nurse of Labor and Delivery. She is responsible for the clinical training of student midwives and the assimilation of new midwives. She leads the quality assurance program in the dept and is active in developing obstetric simulation tools to enhance learning ability. Liat’s staff includes 45 midwives and nurse’s aides. Liat lives in Ben Ami, a small agricultural village near the hospital that focuses on a large crop of avocado and specializes in hydro agriculture. She is married to Rami and has two children, her son Ido and daughter Michal.

Dr Ewa Sałkiewicz-Munnerlyn

I was the Polish diplomat, working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 2018. I was appointed the charge d’affaires at the Polish Embassy to the Holy See from 1993-1994. Afterwords I served as the Polish consul at the Consular Division of the Polish Embassy in Washington D.C. from 1995-1999. I has been working several times as a short term observer of the OSCE during parliamentary and presidential elections in Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Belarus. I worked as the Human Rights Officer of the OSCE in Macedonia (Skopje and Ohrid) and Bosnia and Hercegovina (Pale in Republika Srbska) from 2001-2005. I taught diplomatic protocol and savoir vivre at the Academy Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski in Krakow, Poland. I taught diplomatic protocol, Holy See diplomacy, prevention of genocide, at different Universities in Poland (WSB in Dąbrowa Górnicza, SAN in Krakow, KPSW in Bydgoszcz, Collegium Civitas, UKSW and UW in Warsaw). Each year I am teaching within Erasmus + international law at European Universities in Italy (Rome, Pisa, Cagliari, Naples, Macerata, Campobasso) and other countries such as Spain (Valencia, Tenerife), Turkey (Aydin University), France (Sorbonne), Lithuania (Vilnius), Paphos (Cyprus), Famagusta (Northern Cyprus), Belgrade (Serbia), Sarajevo (BiH). I hold Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and the post-graduate diploma from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland. I worked as the HRO at the United Nations in Geneva, Human Rights Commission from 1982 to 1984 and as the assistant at the University of Geneva (1984-1986) and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland from 1986-1990. I speak English, French, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish. I am married to an American and live in Poland since 1999

Marderos Ara SAYEGH

Prof. Sayegh was born in Aleppo (Syria) in 1960. He received his PhD in 1993 at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, where currently, he is a professor at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering. Prof. Sayegh is an Armenian who actively participates in the life of the Armenian diaspora, especially he is interested in the cultural, social and centuries-old heritage of Polish Armenians. In recognition of his precious activities and services, the President of the Republic of Poland honoured prof. Sayegh with the Silver Cross of Merit, awarded in 2017.

Mindaugas Štelemėkas, PhD

Is the Head of Health Research Institute, and an Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. The background education is Public Health and Health Economics, and the main area of academic interest is behavioral health risk factors such as alcohol and tobacco.

Relika Stoppel

Relika is a research assistant at the University of Potsdam and is currently finalizing her PhD in Health Economics. Her main research interest lies in analyzing alcohol control policies and their effectiveness in reducing alcohol-related adverse outcomes, such as alcohol-attributable and -related mortality, and drunk driving.

Andrzej Trybusz, MD, PhD

Graduate of the Medical Faculty of the Military Medical Academy in Łódź. He served in many units and divisions of the army, including the Healthcare Directorate of Central Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. In the years 1998 – 2001, he held the position of Chief of Healthcare of Polish Armed Forces, simultaneously functioning as the Deputy Minister of Defence for the purposes of healthcare. In 1998 he was granted the rank of brigade general. In 2001 he was appointed the Chief Sanitary Inspector. He held this position until 2006, subsequently, he became the Greater Poland District Sanitary Inspector, for the period of time from 2006 to 2020. In the years 2007 – 2009, he was Assistant Professor in the Chair of Emergency Medicine of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, as well as the lecturer in Lubuski College of Public Health. Currently, he is employed as a visiting scholar at Calisia University – Kalisz. Author of several publications in the field of sanitary training, medical assistance skills, and sanitary-epidemiological management. Co-author of the book “W trosce o zdrowie publiczne. Wojewódzka Stacja Sanitarno-Epidemiologiczna w Poznaniu. Tradycje i współczesność 1253 – 2009” (In care for public health. Sanitary – Epidemiological District Station. Traditions and modernity 1253 – 2009 – translator’s note). In 1989 he was awarded the title of Doctor of Medical Sciences. Doctor of psychiatry, epidemiology, public health, and organization of healthcare specialist.

Justina Vaitkevičiūtė

Justina Vaitkevičiūtė received a Ph.D. degree in Public Health at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences in 2020. Now she works as researcher at the Health Research Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. In her work, Justina participates in health monitoring studies and various public health projects. Her current research interests include children growth, tobacco and alcohol control.

Dr Carlo La Vecchia

Dr La Vecchia received his medical degree from the University of Milan and a master of science degree in Medicine (epidemiology) from Oxford University. Presently, he is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the School of Medicine at the University of Milan. Dr. La Vecchia serves as an editor for numerous clinical and epidemiologic journals. He is among the most renowned and productive epidemiologists in the field with over 2280 peer-reviewed papers in the literature and is among the most highly cited medical researchers in the world, according to Clarivate HighlyCited.com, the developer and publisher of the Science Citation Index (2003, 2016, 2017, 2018, H index 183, H10 index 1804). Dr. La Vecchia was an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Centre and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Centre, Nashville, TN, (2002-18) and of Epidemiology at the University of Lausanne, CH (2000-14).

Aurelijus Veryga, PhD

Is currently a Member of Parliament (Seimas) of the Republic of Lithuania, former Minister of Health (2016-2020). He came to politics from being an active researcher and a professor at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences as well as active non-governmental activist in the field of tobacco and alcohol control. His background education is psychiatrist.

Mateusz Zatoński

Mateusz Zatoński is an academic researcher and health advocate with 10 years of experience in health promotion, policy research, and capacity building. He is a board member of the Polish Health Promotion Foundation, a leading Polish public health NGO, and an editor of the Journal of Health Inequalities. Mateusz has studied at the University of Glasgow, Harvard University, and University College London. In 2019 he completed his PhD in Public Health under the supervision of Prof. Martin McKee at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with a thesis on tobacco control in Eastern Europe. He is now based at the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, UK, where he leads a research team looking at the problem of tobacco industry policy interference globally and developing resources for local advocates to address it.

Witold Zatoński

Witold Zatoński, MD, Professor of medical sciences, honorary doctor of the University of Aberdeen in United Kingdom. Between 1966 and 1979 he worked as an internist (post-doctoral degree) and as a biochemist at the Medical Academy in Wrocław, Poland. Then, until 2016 he was the director in the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention at the Maria Skłodowska Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw. Professor Zatoński is the founder and president of the Health Promotion Foundation.

Alfred de Zayas, profesor

Alfred de Zayas, Professor of international law, Geneva School of Diplomacy retired senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights former UN Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18 author of “Building a Just World Order” Clarity Press, Atlanta 2021

Wojciech Żmudziński SJ

Jesuit, Socius to the Provincial of the Greater Poland and Mazovia Province of the Society of Jesus. He graduated in biblical studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and in school administration at Fordham University in New York. He worked in Italy as an educator in a center for heroin addicts (1987-1989) and ran an Addiction Prevention Clinic in Gdynia (2004-2014). In 1992-1993 he worked in Albania, cooperating with Caritas Albania. For 21 years he was the head of the in-service training center for teachers (Centrum Arrupe), and in the years 2002-2007 he was the director of the Jesuit Gymnasium and High School in Gdynia. Author of many books and collaborator of the following websites: jezuici.pl and deon.pl.

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