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
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
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,
Expertise: Autonomous Driving Systems, Autonomous Systems, Complex Systems Engineering, Internet of Things, Rigorous System Design.
Eleonora Papadimitriou
Department of Transportation , National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
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)
sexual violence, domestic violence, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health
Program Committee
Hellenic Mediterranean University, Faculty of Health Science, Social Work Dept, Laboratory of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Greece
Klaipėda University · Department of Public Health; Faculty of Health Sciences, Lithuania
University of Pavia, Medical School, Interdepartmental Centre for Studies and Research on Road Safety (CIRSS), Italy
University of Pavia, Medical School, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Italy
Hellenic Mediterranean University, Faculty of Health Science, Social Work Dept, Laboratory of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Greece
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Mechanical Engineering Department, Lisboa, Portugal
University of Pavia, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Italy
Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica, Greece
Univercity of Valencia, Department of Methodology in the Behavioural Sciences, Spain
Technical University of Crete, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Greece
Norwegian University of Science and Technology / NTNU, Department of Psychology, Norway
Maria Papadakaki
Hellenic Mediterranean University, Faculty of Health Science, Social Work Dept, Lab of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Greece
Βirute Strukciniene
Klaipėda University · Department of Public Health; Faculty of Health Sciences, Lithuania
Anna Morandi
University of Pavia, Medical School, Interdepartmental Centre for Studies and Research on Road Safety (CIRSS), Italy
Christina Montomoli
University of Pavia, Medical School, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Italy
Joannes Chliaoutakis
Hellenic Mediterranean University, Faculty of Health Science, Social Work Dept, Laboratory of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Greece
João Pereira Dias
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Mechanical Engineering Department, Lisboa, Portugal
Ottavia Eleonora Ferraro
University of Pavia, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Italy
Panagiotis Papantoniou
Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica, Greece
Pedro Valero Mora
Univercity of Valencia, Department of Methodology in the Behavioural Sciences, Spain
Thomas Kontogiannis
Technical University of Crete, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Greece
Timo Lajunen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology / NTNU, Department of Psychology, Norway
Emilie Friberg
Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Organizing Committee
Laboratory of Health and Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Laboratory of Health and Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Technical University of Crete, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Greece
EUPHA LAW, National Organization for Healthcare Service Delivery (Greece), LaHeRS, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Laboratory of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Helath Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Institute of Child Health, Department of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Center for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
National Association of Relief & Solidarity for Traffic Accident Victims of Crete Region “Saint Christophoros"
Laboratory of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Helath Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Papadakaki Maria
Lab of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Chliaoutakis Joannes
Lab of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Kontogiannis Thomas
Technical University of Crete, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Greece
Lingri Dimitra
EUPHA LAW, National Organization for Healthcare Service Delivery (Greece), LaHeRS, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Markakis George
Lab of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Helath Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Nikolaidis George
Institute of Child Health, Department of Mental Health and Social Welfare, Center for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
Polentas Stavros
National Association of Relief & Solidarity for Traffic Accident Victims of Crete Region “Saint Christophoros"
Tzamalouka Georgia
Lab of Health & Road Safety (LaHeRS), Social Work Dept, Faculty of Helath Sciences, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Lilitsis Charalampos
Forensic Pathologist of Crete, Forensic Department of Crete, Ministry of Justice, Greece
LaHeRS Lab, HMU