Neville Calleja
Prof Neville Calleja is a Full Professor and Head of Department for Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery of the University of Malta, in Europe. He is also the Director for Health Information and Statistics within the Ministry of Health in Malta, since 2007, serving as Acting Chief Medical Officer during 2014. He is very active at European level in the field of Health Information for both the EU and WHO (Europe), conducting health information system assessments in the region, and is part of the team involved in the development and revision of the WHO (Euro) tool for this purpose. He has also been recently involved in the assessment of COVID-19 specific health information systems in several countries in Europe and also the preparedness of EU countries for the upcoming European Health Data Space initiative. During the COVID-19 pandemic, apart from providing epidemiological and public health policy support as part of the Senior COVID-19 Advisory Group to the Ministry for Health in Malta and representing Malta on several COVID emergency fora in the EU, he has also been assisting WHO in Geneva in shaping its infodemic management research agenda and competency framework, and has contributed to several training schools in infodemic management covering over 1400 infodemic managers globally. The AD Scientific Index 2023 ranked Prof Neville Calleja as one of the top 10 scientists in Malta.