TINA GARANI – PAPADATOS

Tina Garani-Papadatos is Professor of Law and Public Health Ethics, at the Dept of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica. She holds a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, a Master of Arts from the Centre of Medical Ethics and Law (King’s College London-University of London) and a PhD from the Dept of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Athens. Her continuing education includes seminars at the Imperial College of Engineering, Science and technology in London (Health Centre and Centre for Humanities), at the Harvard School of Public Health (The Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights), and at the ASPHER (Association of Schools of Public Health of the European Region). She has been a member of the Athens Barrister Association (1987-1998). Since 1990 she worked at the Dept of Public and Administrative Health of the National School of Public Health until its merger with the University of West Attica in 2019.

She has been a member of a number of Committees at the national level, member of the Research Ethics Committee of the University Research Institute of Mental health, Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (EPIPSY), member of the Research Ethics Committee of CERTH (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas) and Chair of the Research Ethics Committee of the University of West Attica. She is a Member of the Board of the National Scholarship Foundation (IKY). She has acted as a member of various ad hoc Committees of Experts at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, as the Representative of Greece in the Steering Committee of Bioethics of the Council of Europe [DH-BIO] where she has held the position of the Chair for two years. She is an Ethics Expert of the European Commission – Directorate General for Research and Innovation and member of the WHO-Working Group on the Ethics of Covid-19.

She has extensive teaching experience in graduate and post-graduate level and she has published in the field of Bioethics, Research Ethics, Human Rights and Public Health Law. She has participated in numerous EU research projects. Currently she holds the position of Professor of Law and Bioethics in Public Health in the Dept of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica.