Dr Peris Grao is a Medical Doctor with a specialisation in Family and Community Medicine. He holds a Master in Public Health; a degree in Quality Management; and a degree on Primary Care Management. He is Member of scientific and organising committees for CAMFIC and EFPC, and Member of Bsalut, an association for Research on Innovation and Managing in Health Services.

Dr Eszter Kovács first obtained an MSc degree in sociology at the University of Szeged in 2007. She started working as a lecturer in sociology of medicine at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences and as a statistician at the unit of Psychiatry of Children and Youth, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged. She obtained her PhD in Health Sciences at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University in 2012. Dr Kovacs works as Assistant Professor at the Health Services Management Training Centre, Faculty of Health and Public Services, Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, where she acts as head of unit of the Health Workforce Planning Knowledge Centre. She has participated in and played crucial roles in several international projects: FP7 projects e.g., Health Prometheus, European Cross-border Care Collaborations, Joint Actions on European Health Workforce Planning and Forecasting, the SEPEN Joint Tender on animating the European health workforce expert network, and JA ImpleMENTAL, and some EU-co-funded projects on health workforce reforms, e.g. TaSHI and OASES projects. Dr Kovacs also coordinates the activities of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Human Resources for Health Development since 2015. Due to this latter role, she had the opportunity to contribute to the design and creation of the WHO HRH Leadership and Management Prototype curricula. Her areas of expertise are human resources management, HRH data and related policy issues, strategic health workforce planning,  health workforce education, health professionals’ mobility, cross-border health care, innovations in HRH management, digitalisation of the health workforce, mental health and wellbeing of health workers, and health/medical tourism.

Prof Federica Morandi is Professor of Management at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Faculty of Economics, Department of Management Studies. She is the Programme Chair of the bachelor degree of Economia e Gestione dei Servizi (Economics and Service Management) at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She obtained a PhD in Economic and Management of Healthcare Organizations at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Since 2020 she is the Director of the Academic Programs in Altems (Graduate School of Economics and Management of Healthcare Systems) at the same university. She is also responsible for the research activities of Patient Advocacy Associations Lab and Clinical Trial Management Lab at Altems. She received two awards for research activities from the Academy of Management (2011) and from Assioa (Italian Association of Organization Studies) (2010). She has been a visiting scholar (short term) at ISCTE-IUL Lisbon (Portugal) and at Tillburg University (The Netherlands) at the Department of Organization Studies – School of Social Behavioural Sciences. Her research interests focus both on organizational models in healthcare and on healthcare workforce. Prof Federica Morandi co authored more than 30 scientific papers both in international and national peer-reviewed journals and about 10 book chapters. She is also author of a monography entitled “Managerial solutions to hospital challenges” edited by Nova Science Publishers, 2016. Prof Federica Morandi is co editor of a book series dedicated to the healthcare management and she is associate editor at Health Service Management Research journal.
Prof Federica Morandi has given a large number of presentations at International and National
Conferences.

Prof Catherine Keller is a hospital director and doctor in health law. She has held various positions in public health establishments (Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Mental Health). She led a large inter-hospital cooperation project. Before joining the EHESP to teach hospital law, she also worked as an administrative magistrate, in charge of hospital litigation.

Prof Todorka Kostadinova is Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, Accreditation and Quality at Varna Medical University.​​​

She has two Master’s degrees from the University of Economics – Varna and a PhD from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia.

Her academic career has been further developed by successive appointments as an Extraordinary Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Health Care Management at MU-Varna (2002), Associate Professor of the same Department (2003) and Professor – in 2012 in the scientific speciality ‘Organisation and Management outside the Sphere of Material Production’. She has two specialities in the field of healthcare: ‘Health Economics’ (2005) and ‘Medical Informatics and Health Management’ (2006).

She delivered lectures as a guest lecturer in a Master’s Programme in Health Management at the University in Bern, Switzerland (2005 – 2006) and Medical University – Vienna (2009-2011). From 2008 to 2011 she was a member of an international research team at Berkeley University, after specialising in Leadership in healthcare at the same University.

Within the period 2009 – 2013, Prof Kostadinova combines academic work with management positions at various levels as a parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Health (2009), Deputy Minister of Health (2009 – 2010), a member of the Control Board (2009) and Supervisory Board (2010) of the National Health insurance Fund (NHIF), Sofia, a coordinator for Bulgaria of the International Network for Health in South-Eastern Europe (2009-2010), a member of the National Commissions and Committees on European Politics – at the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Bulgaria, on ethnic issues – at the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Chairman of the National Council on Food Safety at the Ministry of Health (2009-2010), Deputy Minister for International Cooperation, Public Health, including work with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, European programmes and projects, Electronic Healthcare.

Dr Marius-Ionuț Ungureanu MD, PhD is a medical doctor with extensive training in healthcare management and policy, and a background in health workforce, health systems & public health research. He is currently serving as Chair of the Department of Public Health, and Director of the Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy, both within the School of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences at Babeș-Bolyai University (BBU) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He has served in Government in various capacities, including as Advisor to the Health Minister, Chief of Staff to the Health Minister, and Deputy Health Minister, in the Romanian Ministry of Health. His main areas of expertise are: human resources for health research, policy, and development; leadership & healthcare reform; quality management in healthcare; health services research; primary and community health care; research design; research management. Dr. Ungureanu is a member of European Public Health Association’s (EUPHA) Governing Board, representing BBU’s Department of Public Health, and President of EUPHA’s Health Workforce Research Section.