EPHA Staff

Secretary General
Monika joined EPHA in February 2008 and she leads the Secretariat. Monika represents EPHA and its member in its work with European policy and decision makers and provides an overall steer for the work programme and management of the Secretariat.
Monika also oversees the management of EU and other funded projects, the management of the EPHA team and the Communication and Advocacy strategies.
Background
Monika has a Bachelor in European Studies from the University of (...)

Director of Policy and Strategy
Luiza joined EPHA in March 2009 and is responsible for directing the political work of the organisation.
Luiza steers EPHA’s policy development and strategic advocacy work and manages the organisation’s external relations and partnerships from a political perspective. She directs the work of the Policy and Campaign Managers, and is assisted by the EU Affairs Officer.
Background
Before joining EPHA, Luiza Bara has worked as senior manager in European (...)

European Policy Manager
Anne joined EPHA in April 2010 and is responsible for overseeing the delivery of EPHA policy objectives and deliverables. She chairs the Policy Coordination Meetings and is responsible for the management of the delivery of advocacy stratregies for the various policy issues.
Background
Before joining EPHA, Anne worked as a Policy coordinator for Social Platform - Platform of European Social NGOs. She was a member of the Steering Groups of the Spring Alliance, and of (...)

Global Health Manager
Frazer Goodwin has been working with European Public Health Alliance since February 2007 and is now Project Manager for Global Health managing EPHA’s contribution to Action for Global Health - a project coordinated by Action Aid International. This five year project aims to ensure an Effective European contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, especially the three health related ones.
Background
Frazer was born in Coventry, England, in 1964 and (...)

Governance and Membership Coordinator
Sascha joined EPHA in September 2009. A dual German and Canadian citizen, he holds a Masters degree in Communication and Cultural Studies from York University (Toronto) focusing on EU migration issues. Prior to working at EPHA he gained experience in public and private sector organisations in Brussels, Canada, and the U.K.
His tasks at EPHA include managing governance and membership issues, as well as providing executive assistance to the Secretary (...)

Agriculture & Health Manager
Robert Pederson has been working with EPHA since January 2010. He manages the Agriculture and Health project, EPHA’s contribution to the European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium. The goal of the project is to work towards a more health promoting Common Agriculture Policy (CAP).
Background : Robert was born in the United States, and has lived in Europe for the past 23 years. He received Bachelor degrees in Business (USA) and in Nutrition (Denmark), and (...)

Administration and Finance Coordinator
Background
Tania joined EPHA in July 2010. An Italian national, Tania graduated in teaching from the Institut Roger Guilbert of Brussels and she also holds a postgraduate certificate in computer studies from the Institut Cooremans, also in Brussels.
At EPHA, she is mainly in charge of office management, financial matters and human resources. Her mother tongue is French. She also speaks fluent Italian, English, Spanish, Dutch and has a basic (...)

Coordinator for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Jo Jewell has been working for EPHA since September 2008. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin where he completed a degree in European Studies with Russian.
Within EPHA, Jo is responsible for health determinants, which covers core, behavioural, social and environmental determinants of health. EPHA’s work on health determinants includes policy and advocacy work on nutrition, alcohol, tobacco, sexual and reproductive health and (...)

Policy Officer for Global Health
Dorota joined EPHA in May 2009. She works as Policy Officer for Global Health at The European Public Health Alliance where she supports EPHA’s contribution to Action for Global Health – a project aiming to ensure EU effective effort to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals – and works on issues related to EU policy coherence, health and development.
Outside this policy area, she works on issues of environment, agriculture, (...)

Membership and Communications Officer
Alison joined EPHA in February 2010.
Background Alison Abrahams joined EPHA in February 2010 as the Membership and Communications Officer. She graduated from the University of Birmingham where she completed a degree in French and Italian in 2009. Prior to joining EPHA, Alison worked for a small consultancy in Brussels working exclusively with NGOs, organising events.
Alison has a strong interest in the socio-economic determinants of health and health (...)

Policy Officer for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Doriane joined EPHA in October 2009 as a Policy assistant for Health Determinants.
Background
She graduated from the “Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes” in Strasbourg where she holds two masters in law and European studies. She has a strong interest for social Europe, more particularly in health policies.
Before joining EPHA, she worked as a Policy Assistant on social policies for 8 months at the European (...)

Policy Officer for EU Affairs
Leonardo Palumbo joined EPHA in October 2009 and is responsible for communications and research :
His responsibilities include monitoring policy developments in the EU Institutions, updating the website, assisting with the Policy Co-ordination Meetings, and providing support for the newsletter.
Background
Leonardo has a MA in Migration Studies from the University of Kent.
Before joining EPHA he worked in a refugee centre as a Case Worker and in communications (...)

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) Spring 2009 Internship application is now closed.
EPHA offers a new kind of internship :
A six-month traineeship (stage) for EU university graduates with a background on public health, European studies or social sciences working at EPHA office or at an EPHA member in Brussels.
The Internship offers payment of around €600-700 per month.
Objectives
The objectives of the traineeships is to provide the trainee with an understanding of health (...)