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David Blane
David Blane – EFPC advisory Board member, Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow, Academic Coordinator of the Deep End GP group in Scotland
In this Istanbul EFPC Key-note, he will focus on the topic “How to achieve social cohesion in a vast polarized context? What can be the role of Primary Care?”
Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Director of the Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat is a medical doctor, a specialist in public health, and the author of several publications in public health and European health policy.
Following her qualification as a medical doctor from the University of Malta in 1995, Dr Azzopardi-Muscat worked in various areas in the health sector in Malta, including maternal and child health, mental health, and primary care. Her transdisciplinary research bridging health policy, European studies and small states studies led to her PhD entitled “The Europeanisation of health systems: a small state perspective”.
Since 1999, Natasha has been a resident academic at the University of Malta, teaching in the department of health services management and public health. In 2003, she completed her specialization in public health medicine and obtained her membership in the Faculty of Public Health of the United Kingdom. Between 2001 and 2013, she occupied various senior positions in the Ministry of Health in Malta, including that of Chief Medical Officer.
Before joining WHO, Dr Azzopardi-Muscat served as President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) from 2016 to 2020, where she was actively involved in health advocacy at the European level.
Dr Azzopardi-Muscat is married to Dr Conrad Azzopardi, a practicing physician, and has 3 children.
Akile Gürsoy
Akile Gürsoy is an anthropologist specializing in health anthropology. She worked as a communications officer in a UNICEF primary health care project in eastern Turkey (1980-82). She lectured and took administrative positions in a number of universities in Turkey and was visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin (1990-92). In Venezuela she was elected secretary general of International Forum for Social Science and Health (2003) and she acted as the chairperson of the World Congress in Istanbul (2005). She was the founding president of the Association of Social Science and Health (SASBİL) in Turkey. She was a member of the advisory editorial board of the Pergamon Press/Elsevier Science Journal Social Science & Medicine. She worked at the European Science Foundation as the representative for Turkey. She published internationally on the topic of child health & mortality and ideology in science. Presently she is a faculty member at the Sociology Department of Beykent University, İstanbul, Turkey.
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