Vesna Kerstin Petrič
Director general
LJUBLJANA | Slovenia
Biography
Dr Kerstin Vesna Petrič currently holds the position of Director-General of the Directorate for Public Health at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia. She assumed this position following a successful sixteen-year engagement as Head of the Division for Health Promotion and Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases at the Directorate for Public Health at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia. From 1998 to 2004 she was the Head of Office for WHO relations at the Ministry of Health of Slovenia and acted as WHO Liaison Officer. From May 2022 she is also President of the WHO Executive Board.
Organisation
Ministry of Health SVN
zOther
Speaker session
10:00 - 11:30
The new European Health Security Framework
Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)
- New regulation on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU - John F. Ryan, DG SANTE
- New regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level - Wolfgang Philipp, DG HERA
- New regulation on European Medicines Agency - Emer Cooke, EMA
- New regulation on European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Andrea Ammon, ECDC
Panel 1:
- Rui Portugal, Ministry of Health of Portugal
- Vesna Kerstin Petrič, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
- Jérôme Salomon, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, France
- Sara Byfors, Public Health Agency of Sweden
Q&A
Wolfgang Philipp
Acting Deputy Head in DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority
Brussels | Belgium
Biography
Mr Wolfgang Philipp is Deputy Head of the new Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) in the European Commission. HERA's mission is to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to health emergencies. HERA works to ensure the development, production and distribution of medicines, vaccines, and other critical medical countermeasures in case of health emergencies. He holds a PhD in microbiology of the University of Paris, France, and has been working in tuberculosis research at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, at the Universities of Bern and Basel and was a Member of the Basel Institute of Immunology, Switzerland, before joining the European Commission in 2001
Organisation
EC
EU Institutions
Speaker session
10:00 - 11:30
The new European Health Security Framework
Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)
- New regulation on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU - John F. Ryan, DG SANTE
- New regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level - Wolfgang Philipp, DG HERA
- New regulation on European Medicines Agency - Emer Cooke, EMA
- New regulation on European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Andrea Ammon, ECDC
Panel 1:
- Rui Portugal, Ministry of Health of Portugal
- Vesna Kerstin Petrič, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
- Jérôme Salomon, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, France
- Sara Byfors, Public Health Agency of Sweden
Q&A
Rui Portugal
Deputy Director General
Lisbon | Portugal
Biography
He is currently the Deputy Director General of Health in Portugal. He is Public Health Physician in Lisbon and teaches at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. He was responsible for the Coordination of the technical part of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU in 2021. He was the President of the Board of the Regional Administration of Health of Lisbon, a Member of the Executive board of the National Institute of Health in Lisbon, the coordinator of the training of Public Health Physicians in Lisbon region and the member of several working groups including the one of the reform of Public Health Services He has degrees in Public Health, Hospital Administration, Tropical Medicine and Health Services Research. He was trained at Universities in Lisbon, at the LSHTM in London and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Organisation
Directorate General of Health
Member State authority
Speaker session
10:00 - 11:30
The new European Health Security Framework
Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)
- New regulation on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU - John F. Ryan, DG SANTE
- New regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level - Wolfgang Philipp, DG HERA
- New regulation on European Medicines Agency - Emer Cooke, EMA
- New regulation on European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Andrea Ammon, ECDC
Panel 1:
- Rui Portugal, Ministry of Health of Portugal
- Vesna Kerstin Petrič, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
- Jérôme Salomon, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, France
- Sara Byfors, Public Health Agency of Sweden
Q&A