EHFG — Advisory Committee

About the Advisory Board

Representing the four EHFG pillars, the Advisory Committee of Experts supports the development and evaluation of the annual programme of the EHFG conference. We are very grateful to all of our AC members past and present for their support in developing the European Health Forum Gastein!

Role

The Advisory Committee helps to determine the theme of the conference and assesses and advises on session proposals both regarding content, format and speakers. It also supports the EHFG team with suggestions on potential sponsors and advice on the future developments and engagements of the EHFG.

The Advisory Committee is made up of individual and institutional members.

Individual members are invited on the basis of their expertise and potential contribution to the EHFG. As such, they participate in a personal capacity and are not representing any particular organisation or stakeholder group.

Institutional members use their expertise to represent their organisation. Institutional memberships are currently designated to representatives of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, the Young Forum Gastein and the European Health Forum Gastein Board.

Individual Members

Paul Belcher

Senior Advisor - Europe and Health

A long-standing senior advisor on European level health policy engagement & public affairs to a range of health organisations.

Francesca Colombo

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Head of Health Division at the OECD. She is a leading international expert on health and care issues for elderly populations.

Caroline Costongs

EuroHealthNet

Director of EuroHealthNet, the European Partnership for improving health, equity and wellbeing, based in Brussels.

Johan Hansen

NIVEL

Senior researcher and project coordinator of HSR Europe at NIVEL, The Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research.

Monika Kosinska

World Health Organization

Global Head of Economic and Commercial Determinants for the World Health Organization.

Martin McKee

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Professor of European Public Health, Research Director at the European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies.

Tamsin Rose

Tamarack Ltd.

Independent Consultant

Nicoline Tamsma

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

Co-ordinating Advisor International Affairs

Matthias Wismar

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Senior Health Policy Analyst

Freek Spinnewijn

European Federation of Organisations Working on Homelessness

Director of FEANTSA - the European Federation of Organisations Working on Homelessness

Paola Testori Coggi

Istituto Affari Internazionali

Scientific Advisor

Tessa Richards

The BMJ

Senior editor/Patient Partnership

Mira Jovanovski-Dasic

South-eastern Europe Health Network

Head of the Secretariat of the South-Eastern Europe Health Network

Usman Khan

Modus Europe

Managing Director, Modus Europe

Siegfried Walch

Management Center Innsbruck

Head of Department & Studies, Management Center Innsbruck

Institutional members

Richard Bergström

European Health Forum Gastein

EHFG Board representative to the Advisory Committee