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Dr. Alexander Tran is currently a postdoctoral fellow Project Scientist collaborating with Dr. Shannon Lange and Dr. Jürgen Rehm on the NIAAA grant 'Evaluation of the impact of alcohol control policies on morbidity and mortality in Lithuania and other Baltic states'. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a PhD in social psychology. His research interests include understanding the effects of alcohol policy on alcohol consumption and mortality, employing interrupted time series analyses, and investigating the social and cognitive factors that lead to the motivation to consume alcohol.
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PhD Daumantas Stumbrys is a Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. He has defended his PhD thesis ‘Socio-Demographic Mortality Differentials Among Men in Lithuania’ in Sociology at Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences in 2016. Dr. Daumantas Stumbrys has completed a postdoctoral fellowship ‘Alcohol Abuse Problem in Lithuania: An Interdisciplinary Study of Social and Demographic Determinants’ at Vytautas Magnus University in 2017-2019. His research interests cover sociology of health, mortality differentials, and alcohol control policy.
Dr. Domantas Jasilionis (PhD) is a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany) and Professor at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). His primary research interests include demography, population data & methods, human longevity & causes of death, and health inequalities. Domantas Jasilionis has been involved in numerous international projects and served in several international committees. He is a member of the executive committee of the Human Mortality Database Project - a major international repository of life table data for developed countries. D. Jasilionis has recently received a research grant (together with Dr. Dmitri Jdanov) from the Volkswagen Foundation to pursue a project on Strengthening a reliable evidence base for monitoring the COVID-19 and other disasters.
PhD Robertas Badaras is the Head of Toxicology Department of Republican Vilnius University Hospital, and an Assoc. Prof. at the Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive care of the Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University. His background education is Clinical Toxicology and Intensive Care medicine, and his main area of academic interest is alcohol and drugs (including prescription drugs) with a specific focus on detoxification. He is currently is a consultant on the NIAAA grant project 'Evaluation of the impact of alcohol control policies on morbidity and mortality in Lithuania and other Baltic states' (grant no. 1R01AA028224).
Laura Miščikienė received master degree in Law from Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, in 2014. Currently she is junior researcher and a PhD candidate at Health Research Institute of the Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. In her work Laura participates in various public health and health system related projects and belongs to a network of WHO Health Systems and Policy Monitor (HSPM). Currently her academic interests include health law, tobacco and alcohol control, evaluation of public health interventions.
Olga Meščeriakova received a Master of Public Health degree at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences at the Faculty Public Health in 2010. Currently she is a PhD candidate and a lecturer at the Department of Public Health Management at the Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Her current research field includes health inequalities, socioeconomic mortality inequalities, digital health, healthcare, and their inequalities.
Lukas Galkus is a junior researcher at the Health Research Institute of the Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Lukas has acquired his medical degree in 2018. He is interested in research in the fields of health promotion, prevention (especially alcohol, tobacco, and drugs), alcohol and tobacco policies and health economics. Currently, he is a candidate for MSc Health Economics, Policy, Management at Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden).
Prof. Witold Zatoński, MD,of medical sciences, honorary doctor of the University of Aberdeen in United Kingdom. Between 1966 and 1979 he worked as an internist (post-doctoral degree) and as a biochemist at the Medical Academy in Wrocław, Poland. Then, until 2016 he was the director in the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention at the Maria Skłodowska Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw. Professor Zatoński is the founder and president of the Health Promotion Foundation.
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Kinga Janik-Koncewicz (M.Sc., PhD student) is an academic researcher at the Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities, Calisia University, Kalisz, Poland. Her main interest is monitoring consumption of tobacco and alcohol and epidemiology of tobacco- and alcohol-related health burden in Poland. In years 2001-2016 she was a researcher at the Department of Epidemiology at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw, Poland, where she was engaged in cancer primary prevention, national and international research projects and intervention programmes. She’s a Lead Assistant Editor at the Journal of Health Inequalities and member of the Polish Health Promotion Foundation.
PhD Mateusz Zatoński is an academic researcher and health advocate with 10 years of experience in health promotion, policy research, and capacity building. He is a board member of the Polish Health Promotion Foundation, a leading Polish public health NGO, and an editor of the Journal of Health Inequalities. Mateusz has studied at the University of Glasgow, Harvard University, and University College London. In 2019 he completed his PhD in Public Health under the supervision of Prof. Martin McKee at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with a thesis on tobacco control in Eastern Europe. He is now based at the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, UK, where he leads a research team looking at the problem of tobacco industry policy interference globally and developing resources for local advocates to address it.
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