Master in Public Health – Information Προηγούμενες Χρονιές Σχετικοί Σύνδεσμοι Επικοινωνία
Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, at the Medical School, UCY. He has coordinated in the past numerous multidisciplinary projects with several partners in Cyprus and abroad, successfully, with smaller and larger budgets, in the order of many thousands and millions of euros. He has been running his own lab since 1991 and he has provided the research and educational incubator, which trained more than 60 scientists at all levels, including faculty from other Universities, medical doctors, postdoctoral fellows, PhD & MSc students, undergraduate diploma students and technologists.
Dr. Christiana Fillippou Charidimou, Senior Officer, Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth, Cyprus
Dr. Christiana Fillippou Charidimou u is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at the School of Sciences, European University Cyprus (EUC). She holds a Doctor in Professional Studies (2011) from Middlesex University, UK, specializing in Clinical Dietetics, Nutrition, and Health Education, an MSc in Sports Nutrition (1991), and a BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics (1989) from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is also a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), credentialed by the U.S. Commission on Dietetic Registration since 1991. Her research and publications focus on nutrition and health promotion, including school canteen nutrition guidelines, weight management protocols, practical dietetics guides, and studies on physical activity, cardiovascular risk factors, type 2 diabetes, and obesity in the Cypriot population.
Dr. Andrie Panayiotou, Secretary, Cyprus Epidemiology and Public Health Association
Dr Andrie Panayiotou is Assistant Professor in Public Health at the Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, CUT, since 2011. She is an epidemiologist with special interest in preventing cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis and her work has focused mainly on risk factors and biomarkers (genetic, biochemical, environmental and social) for cardiovascular health and disease, while she has recently expanded research work to include risk factors for the cardiorenal syndrome and vascular ageing (arterial stiffness as a proxy for CVD), under the “common grounds for disease” hypothesis. Since 2011 she has established and heads the Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics lab at CII. She additionally co-ordinates “The Cyprus Study”, an on-going general population cohort study which she helped set-up and which participates in several large international consortia publishing joint results in high-impact journals such as Nature Genetics, JACC, BMJ and others. She is also the Secretary and founding member of the newly established Cyprus Atherosclerosis Society (CAS), while she also sits at the board of the National Bioethics Committee and heads the Cyprus Unit on Bioethics under the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). She was recently appointed by CAS as National Lead Co-investigator to set-up the Cyprus National Registry for Familial Hypercholesterolemia (Cyprus-FH), part of a global effort on FH (EAS-FHSC).
Associate Professor Costas Christophi is a Biostatistician. His research group has worked on obesity and diabetes; smoking and health; and several other important topics in Public Health. He is an Associate Professor at CUT and holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Working with collaborators from Harvard University (including Professors David Christiani, Stefanos Kales and Christos Mantzoros) and from the Cyprus Ministry of Defense, his group initiated an epidemiological investigation of the health of young Cypriot males who were serving in the Cypriot armed forces. Their intent was to study the relationships between genetics, environment, metabolism and obesity in these young recruits. The team found that, when they joined the army, almost one third of these young men were either overweight or obese. Two years later when they left the army, their obesity had increased and their cardiovascular health had deteriorated. In a series of manuscripts, working with Prof. Kales at Harvard University and other colleagues, the team explored the roles of obesity, physical activity and measures of cardiorespiratory fitness as predictors of metabolic syndrome (i.e., diabetes) and cardiovascular disease risk among firefighters and other emergency workers. Professor Christophi’s research group has also been involved in several studies of tobacco smoking habits and determinants in Cyprus.
Dr Agapios Agapiou, Assistant Professor, University of Cyprus
Dr. Agapios Agapiou is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cyprus, specializing in the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with applications in human chemical signatures, air quality, disease diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. He earned his Diploma (2001) and PhD (2006) in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and before joining UCY in 2014, he served as Laboratory Teaching Staff at NTUA. His research also extends to aroma profiling, toxicological decomposition of organic matter, and the study of fuels and natural gas, with numerous publications in leading scientific journals.