Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

Brussels | Belgium

Biography

Ms. Sandra Gallina is Director-General - Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE). Sandra Gallina joined the European Commission in 1988. She is today Deputy-Director General for HEALTH. Before joining DG SANTE, between 2018 and 2020 she was Deputy Director General for TRADE. Between 2014 and 2018 she was Director for DG TRADE Directorate D "Sustainable Development; Economic Partnership Agreements - African, Caribbean and Pacific; Agri-food and Fisheries". Sandra Gallina was also the EU chief negotiator for the EU-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement. Between 2001 and 2009 she was the EU Lead Negotiator for Non-Agricultural Market Access in the WTO Doha Round and in that capacity, she defined and presented EU policy for the Doha Development Agenda on non-agricultural market access negotiations.Before joining DG TRADE, she worked in the Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) at the end of the 1990s.

Organisation

European Comission

EU Institutions

Speaker session

23 November

09:15 - 10:30

Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19

Closed

Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19

Chair: Elizabeth Adams – President European Federation of Nurses Associations

Front-line physician – Thérèse Staub, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg [TBC]
Front-line nurse – Olivier Babel, Community Nurse, France
Long-term care facility – Alenka Oven, Institute for Long-term Care, Slovenia
Patients – Marco Greco, European Patients Forum

Q&A

Elizabeth Adams

President

Therese Staub

Medical Doctor

Olivier Babel

Community Nurse

Alenka Oven

Director

Marco Greco

President

Marco Greco

President

Brussels | Belgium

Biography

Dr Marco Greco is the President of the European Patients' Forum (EPF). He currently sits on the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and acts as an observer on the Patients and Consumers Working Party, on behalf of the Board.

He works as an attorney at his law firm, focusing on litigation, commerce and consumers' protection legislation. He has been chairman of the European Federation of Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Association (EFCCA) and the founder of the EFCCA Youth Group.

After an LL.MM in Law, he earned a PhD in Law and Religion, religious freedom and discrimination and canon law at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

Organisation

European Patients' Forum (EPF)

NGO

Speaker session

23 November

09:15 - 10:30

Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19

Closed

Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19

Chair: Elizabeth Adams – President European Federation of Nurses Associations

Front-line physician – Thérèse Staub, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg [TBC]
Front-line nurse – Olivier Babel, Community Nurse, France
Long-term care facility – Alenka Oven, Institute for Long-term Care, Slovenia
Patients – Marco Greco, European Patients Forum

Q&A

Elizabeth Adams

President

Therese Staub

Medical Doctor

Olivier Babel

Community Nurse

Alenka Oven

Director

Marco Greco

President

Sergio Iavicoli

Director General for Communication and European and International Affairs

Rome | Italy

Biography

Sergio Iavicoli got his medical degree and Residency Program in Occupational Medicine at the University of Rome "Sapienza". He completed his PhD (Occupational Health and Industrial Toxicology), at University of Cagliari. He was Research Fellow at School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley. He was member, representing INAIL, of the National Technical Scientific Committee (CTS) for the Emergency of SARS-CoV2 Pandemic. Currently he is Director of the Directorate-General for Communication and European and International Relations of the Ministry of Health. Previously served as Director of the Research Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene of the Italian Workers' Compensation Authority (INAIL) and as Secretary General of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). He was President of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP).

Organisation

Italian Ministry of Health

Member State authority

Speaker session

23 November

09:15 - 10:30

Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19

Closed

Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19

Chair: Elizabeth Adams – President European Federation of Nurses Associations

Front-line physician – Thérèse Staub, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg [TBC]
Front-line nurse – Olivier Babel, Community Nurse, France
Long-term care facility – Alenka Oven, Institute for Long-term Care, Slovenia
Patients – Marco Greco, European Patients Forum

Q&A

Elizabeth Adams

President

Therese Staub

Medical Doctor

Olivier Babel

Community Nurse

Alenka Oven

Director

Marco Greco

President