Keynote Speakers
Mark Bellis
Professor, Director of Research and Innovation at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Head of the University’s Public Health Institute (PHI)
Expertise: Adverse Childhood Experiences, violence prevention, alcohol, drugs and sexual health
Jorge Cabrita
Senior research manager, Working life research unit, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Expertise: Health and well-being at work, job quality
Nikos Dedes
Board Member of the European Patients' Forum, General Secretary of the Greek Patients' Association
Expertise: Quality in healthcare, patients' literacy, evidence-based medicine
Rebecca Mitchell
Professor, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University
Expertise: Trauma and Injury Management, Health Service Delivery and Health Policy
Belinda Gabbe
Professor, Head of the Prehospital, Emergency and Trauma Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University
Expertise: Trauma, injury outcomes, burden of injury, trauma systems
Marco Giustini
Istituto Superiore di Sanità | ISS · Department of Environment and Health
Expertise: Injury epidemiology, injury surveillance
Elena Petelos
Co-Chair of RWE and Artificial Intelligence, President Public Health Initiative, European Public Health Association (EUPHA), Senior Research Fellow in Public Health and Lecturer in Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Informed Policy (Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and University of Crete, Greece)
Expertise: Global health, digital equity, real-world evidence, benefit/risk communication, new technologies, and AI
David Shinar
Emeritus Full Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Expertise: Traffic Safety, Human Behavior
Lisa N. Sharwood
Senior Research Fellow | School of Population Health | Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales /UNSW. Adjunct Professional Fellow in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney.
Expertise: Injury epidemiology, traumatic injury outcomes, injury surveillance, data linkage, product safety, injury prevention, injury litigation expert witness,
Joseph Sifakis
Emeritus Research Director at VERIMAG Laboratory, A.M. Turing Award Laureate 2007.
Expertise: Autonomous Driving Systems, Autonomous Systems, Complex Systems Engineering, Internet of Things, Rigorous System Design.
Eleonora Papadimitriou
Assistant Professor of Urban Mobility & Road Safety at the Department of Transportation Planning Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Expertise: Road safety, urban mobility, road user behaviour, vulnerable road users
Ines Keygnaert
Ghent University, Department of Public Health & Primary Care; Women's Clinic, Ghent University Hospital; WHO collaborating centre: International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) Centre for Social Studies on Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) Human Rights Research Network (HRRN)
Expertise: Sexual violence, domestic violence, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health
Shanthi Ameratunga
Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland and a Consultant and Senior Medical Researcher at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora at Middlemore and Kidz First Hospitals in South Auckland
Expertise: Injury prevention, post-trauma care
Evangelia Chrysikou
Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London (UCL), UK, Founder and Programme Director of MSc Healthcare Facilities, and Departmental Vice Lead Enterprise
Expertise: Healthcare built environments, healthcare planning, therapeutic architecture
Allyson Pollock
Professor of Public Health at the Newcastle University and Honorary Professor at the UCL, UK
Expertise: Sporting injuries in children, health services, health systems, privatisation, pharmaceuticals
Jolanta Bilinska
Director and Treasurer of the World Patients Alliance
Expertise: Public health safety, patients' rights & safety
Koen Maertens
Managing Director at OSCARE - Organisation for burns, scar aftercare & research in Antwerp, Belgium, Board Member of the European Burns Association Prevention Committee & Belgian Burns Foundation
Expertise: Quality of life after burns and scars, education, innovation, patient centered care and prevention
Mamta Shah
Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, chair of the European Burns Association Prevention subcommittee, Professor at the University of Manchester
Expertise: Burns prevention, wound healing, plastic and reconstructive surgery inflammation
Eva Kehayia
Associate Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University Researcher and Site Co-Director, Feil Oberfeld/CRIR–Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital Research Centre, CISSS de Laval
Expertise: Neurolinguistics, language and communication, stroke, rehabilitation, participation, accessibility.
Program Committee
Organizing Committee
LaHeRS Lab, HMU