Evrinomy Avdi is professor in clinical psychology and director of the Laboratory of Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she works clinically, supervises and carries out research in clinical psychology. She teaches at the School of Psychology courses on psychopathology, clinical skills and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research focuses on the study of the process of therapy (psychoanalytic, systemic and parent-infant psychotherapy), the study of serious illness and in the psychoanalytic understanding of social issues. She primarily uses qualitative methods, and mostly post-structuralist discourse analysis and narrative analysis. She has coordinated several European research projects on clinicalpsychology issues and has publishes in international and national scientific journals in the fields of clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
His research, educational and training work as his relevant social activitiy are centred to the topics of Public Health, Health Policy and Proamry Health Care.
Active in the relative international community he was a founding member of Peoples Health Movement και is honorarypresdent of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe.
Elias Kondilis is a psyciatrist and a trained physician in public health/social medicine. He is Reader in Primary Health Care & Health Policy and is working in the Laboratory of Pimary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research of the AUTH Medical Department. From 2012 to 2019 he lived and worked in London coordinating postgraduate programmes in global public heath, teaching health systems, international health policies and mental health policies in QMUL Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry του QMUL.
His research and published work is centred to the privatisation and austerity policies impacts on health systems and the population access to health care services.
He is acting vice president of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE).
Emanouil Smyrnakis is Reader in Primary Health Care and Medical Education and is working in the Laboratory of Pimary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research of the AUTH Medical Department.
He is a founding member of the AUTH Medical Department Clinical Skills Lab which he is coordinating from 2004 onwards. From 2009 he is visiting professor at King's College of London.
He is coordinator of the Education and Research Network in Primary Health Care and General Practice of the AUTH Medical Dept. His main research interests are Primary Health Care, General Practice and Medical Education.
His main research interests include knowledge synthesis (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), evidence-based practice, and clinical decision making in medicine and diabetes.
She has significant experience in research design and methodology of social surveys, conducting focus groups, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data. She is the Director of the Social, Cultural & Digital Documentation Laboratory of the University of the Aegean and Scientific Manager of a series of research programs related to the study of communities, mental health, social deviation and class inequalities.