Ramunė Kalėdienė, PhD, MD, MPH

About

Prof. Ramunė Kalėdienė, MD, MPH, PhD, Habilitated Doctor, Head of the Dept. of Health Management at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. She is a president of Lithuanian Public Health Association, member of different committees at the Lithuanian Ministry of Health, expert of Health Committee at the Parliament of Lithuania, member of the National Board of Health at the Lithuanian Parliament, served as expert for COVID-19 management at the Government of Lithuania and President of Lithuania, member of the Governing Council and scientific committee of European Public Health Association (EUPHA), member of the Steering Committee of the Central, Eastern Europe and Baltics Health Policy Network (CEEBA-HPN). Throughout the period of 2002-2022 she worked as a Dean of the Faculty of Public Health at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.

Ramune Kalediene coordinated establishment of the Master program in Management of Public Health, as well as Master program in Lifestyle Medicine at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Professor serves as expert of the accreditation of programmes of public health for European region and beyond in the framework of the activities of Accreditation Agency for Public Health Education for European Union (APHEA). For several years, she has chaired the Peer Review Committee of the Association of Schools of Public Health of European Region (ASPHER), was member of the Board of ASPHER. She worked as expert of ASPHER for developing schools of Public Health and quality of training in Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Syria, Bulgaria and several other countries. Her scientific interests cover social and demographic inequalities in health and health care, authoring or co-autoring of several textbooks and more than 400 scientific publications. In 2022, she was awarded with the cross of the Knight of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas for active involvement in health policy formulation of Lithuania.