

Best practices, research and innovation in ports and all types of ships:
• Environmental health and hygiene • Prevention of foodborne, waterborne and vector-borne diseases • Norovirus gastroenteritis, COVID-19, influenza and other vaccine-preventable diseases • Crew occupational health • Cross-border health threats related to maritime transport sector • Preparedness and response to infectious diseases
Organising committee
President
Assoc. Prof. Varvara Mouchtouri
University of Thessaly, Greece
Members of the Organising Committee
Ms. Figan Ayan
MedCruise Association
Mrs. Maria Deligianni
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) Europe
Dr. Mauro Dionisio
Ministry of Health, Directorate General for Health Prevention, Italy
Mr. Finan Gallagher
Health Services Executive - Republic of Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Mr. Aziz Güngör
MedCruise Association, Turkey
Dr. Jan Heidrich
Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Germany
Dr. Janusz Janiec
National Institute of Public Health NIH - National Research Institute, Poland
Mr. Tomi Jormanainen
Environmental Healthcare Services, City of Porvoo, Finland
Mrs. Brigita Kairiene
National Public Health Centre under The Ministry of Health, Lithuania
Dr. Boris Kopilović
National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
Prof. Jenny Kremastinou
National School of Public Health, Greece
Prof. Areti Lagiou
Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology Dept. of Public and Community Health School of Public Health
Univeristy of West Attica Greece, Greece
Mr. Nikos Mertzanidis
Cruise Line International Association, Europe
Dr. Iratxe Moreno
Ministry of Health, Spain
Dr. Corien Swaan
RIVM - National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control (LCI), Netherlands
Ms. Figan Ayan
MedCruise Association
Mrs. Brigita Kairiene
National Public Health Centre under The Ministry of Health, Lithuania
Mrs. Maria Deligianni
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) Europe
Dr. Boris Kopilović
National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
Dr. Mauro Dionisio
Ministry of Health, Directorate General for Health Prevention, Italy
Prof. Jenny Kremastinou
National School of Public Health, Greece
Mr. Finan Gallagher
Health Services Executive - Republic of Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Prof. Areti Lagiou
Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology Dept. of Public and Community Health School of Public Health, Univeristy of West Attica Greece, Greece
Mr. Aziz Güngör
MedCruise Association, Turkey
Mr. Nikos Mertzanidis
Cruise Line International Association, Europe
Dr. Jan Heidrich
Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg - Eppendorf, Germany
Dr. Iratxe Moreno
Ministry of Health, Spain
Mrs. Aimilia Papachristou
Secretary General MedCruise
Dr. Janusz Janiec
National Institute of Public Health NIH - National Research Institute, Poland
Dr. Corien Swaan
RIVM - National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control (LCI), Netherlands
Mr. Tomi Jormanainen
Environmental Healthcare Services, City of Porvoo, Finland
Scientific committee
Chairman
Prof. Christos Hadjichristodoulou
EU SHIPSAN ASSOCIATION, University of Thessaly, Greece
Vice Chairman
Prof. Dr. Volker Harth
Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, Germany
Members of the Scientific Committee
Dr. Angelos Amditis
Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, Greece
Capt. Jaret Ames
EU HEALTHY GATEWAYS joint action, United States of America
Dr. Martin Anthony Williams
Ministry for Health, Malta
Prof. Anastasia Barbouni
University of West Attica/Dp. Public and Community Health , Greece
Ms. Emily Barton
Carnival Maritime Group, Germany
Dr. Mairin Boland
Health Service Executive /Health protection Surveillance Centre, Ireland
Dr. Raquel Bono
Viking, Switzerland
Dr. Clive Brown
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine/CDC, United States of America
Associate Professor Despena Andrioti Bygvraa
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Prof. Evangelia Chrysikou
The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, United Kingdom
Dr. Sebastian Crespi
Biolinea Int., Spain
Prof. Theodore Dardavesis
Department of Medicine Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - A.U.TH., Greece
Dr. Miguel Dávila Cornejo
Ministry of Health, Spain
Mrs. Lieselotte De Marez
Federal Public Service Health, Food chain Safety and Environment, Belgium
Dr. med Martin Dirk Dirksen-Fischer
Hamburg Port Health Center, Institut für Hygiene und Umwelt der, Germany
Prof. Raquel Duarte-Davidson
UK Health Security Agency, United Kingdom, (UKHSA) formerly Public Health England
Dr. Iveta Dubrovova
Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic, Department of the Chief Public Health Officer, Slovak Republic
Dr. Mariana Ferreira
Directorate - General of Health, Portugal
Dr. Rita Ferrelli
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA, Italy
Dr. Richard Gill
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, United Kingdom
Dr. Giorgio Guzzetta
Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy
Prof. Stephan Harbarth
Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
Mrs. Li-Li Ho Ho
Taiwan CDC, Taiwan CDC
Dr. Adolfo Ibañez-Justicia
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), Netherlands Institute for Vectors, Invasive plants and Plant Health (NIVIP), Centre for Monitoring of Vectors (CMV), The Netherlands
Dr Pavle Jelicic
Croatian Institute of Public Health, Croatia
Mr Antonis Kantonis
Ministry of Health, Public Health Services, Cyprus
Mr. Lazaros Karagiannidis
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Greece
Prof. Dr Jørn Klein
University of South - Eastern - Norway, Norway
Dr. Galina Kokosharova
RHI VARNA, Bulgaria
Prof. Jenny Kremastinou
National School of Public Health, Greece
Prof. Prashant Kumar
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Dr. Angel Kunchev
Ministry of Health, Bulgaria
Dr. Pierfrancesco Lepore
MSC CRUISE MANAGEMENT UK LTD, UK
Dr. Claudia Marotta
Directorate - General of Health, Italy
Mr. Giles Mason
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, United Kingdom
Dr. Angelos Andrea Menelaou
Frederick University, School of Business and Law, Department of Maritime Transport and Commerce, Cyprus
Dr. Antonios Michaelakis
Laboratory of Insects & Parasites of Medical Importance - Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Greece
Prof. Gordon Nichols
UK Health Security Agency, United Kingdom
Dr. Symeon Nikolaou
Frederick University, Cyprus
Dr. Peter Otorepec
National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
Dr. Eleftherios Ouzounoglou
Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, I-SENSE Group, Greece
Dr. Antonios Papadakis
Directorate of Public Health of the Region of Crete, Greece
Prof. Christos Papatheodorou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Mr. George Papavasileiou
Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, I-SENSE Group, Greece
Dr. Nina Pirnat
National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia
Associate Professor Dr. Catalin Popa
Romanian Naval Academy "Mircea cel Batran", Romania
Captain (ret) USPHS Laura Ann Rabb
MSC CRUISE MANAGEMENT UK LTD, United Kingdom
Dr. Robert R. Redfield
University of Maryland Senior Public Health Advisory Governor Hogan and state of Maryland, United States of America
Dr. Frank Roland
MV WERFTEN WISMAR GmbH, Germany
Prof. Haruko Satoh
OSIPP-IAFOR Research Centre, Osaka University, Japan
Dr. Clara Schlaich
Hafenpraxis Hamburg & German Seamen´s Mission, Germany
Mr. Niko Siilin
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland
Mr. Mel Skipp
Carnival Corporation, United Kingdom
Mrs. Andrea Smith
Association of Port Health Authorities, United Kingdom
Ms. Eva Van der Wacht
COLUMBIA signature, Germany
Dr. Carmen Varela Martínez
National Centre of Epidemiology, Spain
Dr. Charalampos Vasileiou
Region of Attica Hellas Piraeus Port Public Health Authority, Greece
Mr. Thijs Veenstra
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
Assoc. Prof. Nikolaos Ventikos
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Assoc. Prof. Goran Vukelić
University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies, Croatia
Ms. Kaitlyn West, MPH
COLUMBIA signature, Germany
Mr. Robert Wilkinson
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., USA Head office - Global operation
Dr. Vasileios Zagkas
SimFWD P.C , Greece
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