Meet the team

Agnieszka Fihel
coordinatrice scientifique du projet CODA-EU

Agnieszka Fihel, obtained Ph.D. in economic sciences from the University of Warsaw in 2009. She carried out post-doctoral research (in 2009, 2011) and other research projects (2014–2016) in the Institut national d’études démographiques in Paris, she taught at several French Universities (Paris Nanterre, Paris 1 – La Sorbonne, Sciences Po, de Versaillles et Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). Since 2018 she has been a fellow at the Institut Migrations Convergences, Paris. She conducted several research projects, both as a collaborator and a leader, on mortality by causes of death in Central Europe and demographic changes in post-communist countries.

Justyna Grudziąż-Sękowska

PhD, MPH
School of Public Health, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland

Role: preparation of materials on the most common causes of death in Poland and identification of the areas of the most common errors in their coding.

 

Barbara Stawinska-Witoszynska

MD, PhD
Professor Stawinska-Witoszynska is the Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Hygiene, Chair of Social Medicine, at Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland. She is a highly specialized expert in WHO guidelines concerning causes of death: she was a medical coder and trainer of medical coders in Poland, she is the co-author of handbook on reporting causes of death dedicated to medical doctors (in Polish). Her research interests include: the application of secondary data to health evaluation of population (including children and teenagers) in Poznan and Wielkopolska, hypertension prevalence at young ages and excess male mortality.

Role : She contributed to practical exercises and other e-learning materials in CODA-EU project.

Alicja Baska  

MD
Department of Lifestyle Medicine, School of Public Health, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland 

Role: preparation of materials on the importance of information on causes of death, translating scenarios for the completion of death certificates in practical part of the course.  

Evangelia Ntzani

MD, PhD
Associate Professor & Head, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Paediatrician, Epidemiologist, Cancer registry co-ordinator, Death certificate submission trainer, Member of the School Education Committee.

 

Evangelos Rizos

MD, PhD
Consultant in Internal Medicine, Diabetology
University hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

Role in the project: Prepare different scenarios for the completion of death certificates.

 

Anna Batistatou

MD, PhD
Professor and School Head
University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Pathologist, Member of the University Senate, Member of the School Education Committee,

 

 

Panagiotis Filis 

Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

Role: preparation of scenarios for the completion of death certificates

 

 

Stavroula Tsiara

MD, PhD;
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina School of Medicine; Internist, Head of the Ioannina Medical Council

 

 

 

Minas Paschopoulos

MD, PhD
Professor
Vice-Dean, University of Ioannina; Department Head, University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Obstetrician/Gynecologist
Member of the National Deans’ Convention

 

 

Ioanna Tzoulaki

PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine
Epidemiologist, UK Biobank Data Enhancement Coordination Group.