Conference programme “PUBLIC HEALTH NOW! Security – Governance – Education”

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Krakow City Hall, Plac Wszystkich Świętych 3-4

 

9:00- 9:30  

REGISTRATION

9:30-10:00
 

Welcome Addresses (Session Hall)

prof. Maciej Małecki, MD, PhD – Vice Rector of the Jagiellonian University for Collegium Medicum

Aleksander Miszalski – Mayor of the City of Krakow

Piotr Pierzchalski, MD, PhD, prof. UJ – Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, JU CM

Iwona Kowalska Bobko, PhD, prof. UJ – Director of the Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, JU CM

 
 

 

 

 

   

OPENING SESSION
Public Health Today: Security, Governance and Education
Moderator: PhD Anna Zimny-Zając

10:00-10:15  

prof. Iwona Kowalska‑Bobko, PhD & prof. Magdalena Kozela, PhD
– introductory lecture

10:15-11:30
 

Panel Discussion

With the participation of:

Władysław Kosiniak‑Kamysz – Minister of National Defence

Paulina Piechna‑Więckiewicz – Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Education

Anna Makówka‑Kwapisiewicz – Director of the Minister’s Office

Beata Libera‑Małecka – Senator of the Republic of Poland

Krzysztof Jan Klęczar – Governor of the Małopolska Region

Maria Klaman – Deputy Mayor of Krakow

Paweł Grzesiowski, MD – Chief Sanitary Inspector

Łukasz Pietrzak – Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector

Klaudiusz Komor – Vice‑President, Supreme Medical Council

Mariola Łodzińska – President, Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives

Prof. Maciej Małecki, MD, PhD – Vice‑Rector, JU CM

 
11:30-12:00
 

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

12:00-13:15

 

PLENARY SESSION
A European Perspective on Public Health: Security, Governance and Education
Moderator: prof. Katarzyna Czabanowska

Panel participants:

Ewout Van Ginneken, PhD – Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Hans Kluge, PhD – Director, WHO Regional Office for Europe

Nino Berdzuli, PhD – Director, WHO Country Office in Poland

prof. Tit Albreht – President, European Public Health Association

prof. Mary Codd – President‑elect, ASPHER

prof. Paul Barach – Chair of the Board of Accreditation, APHEA

Andrzej Ryś – Former Director for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation, DG SANTE

 
13:15-14:00
 

Lunch

 

 

     
   

PLENARY SESSION
35th Anniversary of the University Public Health in Poland
Moderators: prof. Grażyna Jasieńska, PhD; prof.  Christoph Sowada, PhD

14:00-14:15  

Introductory Lecture

Michał Jasieński PhD
The First Minister of Public Health in Poland: prof. Witold Chodźko 

14:15-15:30  

Panel Discussion: The Role of Public Health in Poland:

Participants include representatives of medical universities, public health institutes, and national organizations:

Agnieszka Gorgoń‑Komor – Senator of the Republic of Poland

prof. Karol Kamiński, MD, PhD – Vice‑Rector for Preventive Medicine and Open Science, Medical University of Białystok

Łukasz Rypicz, PhD – Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wrocław Medical University

prof. Mariusz Wysokiński, MD, PhD – Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin

Małgorzata Gałązka‑Sobotka, PhD – Dean, Centre for Postgraduate Education; Director, Institute of Healthcare Management, Łazarski University

Ewelina Chawłowska, PhD — Vice‑Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Poznań University of Medical Sciences

Bernard Waśko – Director, National Institute of Public Health – National Institute of Hygiene

prof. Tomasz Holecki, PhD – Head, Department of Health Economics and Management, Medical University of Silesia

prof. Iwona Kowalska‑Bobko, PhD – Director, Institute of Public Health, JU CM

Maria Piętak‑Frączek – President, Association of Healthy Polish Cities

Paulina Metelska, PhD – Department of Public Health and Social Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk

 

15:30-15:45
 

Coffee break

 

 

     
15:45-17:00  

SCIENTIFIC SESSION
Health education
Moderators: Prof. Alicja Domagała, PhD; Prof. Andrzej Galbarczyk, PhD

Speakers:

prof. Magdalena Kozela, PhD – Teachers’ Mental Well‑Being, Occupational Factors and Lifestyle: Implications for Health Education and Public Health

Magdalena Sikorska, PhD – Health Competencies and Behaviours of Secondary School Students in Małopolska: Compass of Health Study

Anna Marszałek – Study of teachers’ knowledge about diabetes

17:00-18:15  

PARALLEL EXPERT SESSIONS/PANEL

 

Why is it worth it and how to become a healthy City?
Moderator: Maria Piętak-Frączek

 

Drug safety
Moderator: prof. Paweł Kawalec, PhD

 

Tomasz Tatara – Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System

Marta Czubaj-Kowal – specialist in pediatric diseases and cardiology

Monika Zamarlik – President of the National Federation of Organizations Supporting Children and Youth with Diabetes (Diabetes Federation)

Katarzyna Kucia-Garncarczyk – Director of the “Z serce do Klienta” Foundation, American Heart of Poland Group

Dorota Gołąb-Bełtowicz – Director of the University Dental Clinic in Krakow

prof. Wojciech Wysocki – Provincial Consultant in Surgical Oncology

Tomasz Prycel – Managing Director of the CEESTAH Association

Marcin Mikos, PhD – President of the Public Health Foundation

Marta Pawłowska – Partnership for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity

 

 

Mirosława Püsküllüoğlu, PhD – Regional Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology

Bartłomiej Guzik,P hD, prof. UJ – Director of the 5th Military Clinical Hospital with Polyclinic in Krakow

Prof. Marcin Czech – Head of the Department of Pharmacoeconomics, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw

Prof. Urszula Demkow – Head of the Department of Laboratory Diagnostics and Clinical Immunology of Developmental Age, Medical University of Warsaw

Stanisław Maćkowiak – President of the Federation of Polish Patients and the National Forum for Rare Disease Therapy

Wojciech Gryta – Director of Health Policy, Novo Nordis

 

19:00  

Gala dinner (Krakow City Hall, Plac Wszystkich Świętych)

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, June 19, 2026

Krakow City Hall, Plac Wszystkich Świętych 3-4

 

9:00-10:30  

SCIENTIFIC SESSION
A sustainable and resilient healthcare system
Moderator: Ewa Kocot, PhD;  Magdalena Klimek, PhD

Speakers:

Dominik Olejniczak, PhD – Sustainability of the Health System

prof. Katarzyna Dubas‑Jakóbczyk, PhD – Health System and Climate Change

Małgorzata Gałązka‑Sobotka, PhD, prof. Iwona Kowalska‑Bobko, PhD – Framework for Sustainability and Resilience of the Health Care System

 

10.30-11:00  

Coffee break

11:00-12:30  

PARALLEL EXPERT SESSIONS/PANEL

 

Association of Healthy Polish Cities

Good Practices and New Health Challenges for Local Governments: Supporting the Implementation of National Programmes at the Local Level

Includes presentations from:

Prof. Karol Kamiński, MD, PhD – Department of Population Medicine and Prevention of Civilization Diseases, Medical University of Białystok

Ewa Ostrowska – Mayor of Giżycko

Anna Tokarska – Head of the Public Health Department at the Health Policy Office of the Warsaw City Hall – Activities of the City of Warsaw in the field of prevention and health promotion

Joanna Nyczak -Wrocław City Hall

Monika Kurpanik – Director of the Department of Health and Social Affairs of the Municipal Office in Elbląg – Mental health starts locally – best practices from Elbląg

Tomasz Tatara – Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System

Tomasz Augustyniak – Vice President (Deputy Mayor) of the City of Gdynia

CEESTAHC Association

Member cities of the Polish Healthy Cities Association (best practices)

 

Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region
Moderator: Josep Figueras, Robert Otok

Roadmap to professionalizing the public health workforce in the European Region – Polish perspective: competencies, study program, qualifications framework, professional status, code of ethics, formal organizations

Ewout Van Ginneken, PhD – Director, The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies 

prof. Tit Albreht – President, European Public Health Association

prof. Mary Codd –  President‑elect, Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region

Adam Jarubas, PhD – Chairman of the Public Health Committee of the European Parliament

prof. Katarzyna Czabanowska – Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development

Yannis Skalkidis, PhD – Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation

Tomasz Bochenek, PhD – Aspher Executive Board

 

 

12:30-13:15  

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

13:15-14:45  

PARALLEL EXPERT SESSIONS/PANEL

 

Senior Policy in Healthy Cities / Healthy Senior

Moderator: Marta Wodyńska – Senior Policy Officer, City of Krakow

Themes: accessibility of health systems for persons with disabilities, legislative frameworks, good and poor practices.

Speakers include:

prof. Marta Podhorecka, PhD

prof. Barbara Gryglewska, MD, PhD

Marek Wójcik – Association of Polish Cities

Magdalena Władysiuk – CEESTAHC

Anna Smaga – National Institute of Public Health

Paweł Wójtowicz – Civic Health Dialogue Committee

Łukasz Bartkowicz – Director of the Municipal Care Center in Kraków

 

 

Data in the healthcare system: The potential of a European health data space

Moderator: prof. Magdalena Kozela, PhD

Speakers:

Andrzej Ryś – Former Director responsible for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation at DG SANTE

Roman Topór-Mądry, PhD – Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Data, Jagiellonian University Medical College

Agnieszka Szlubowska – Director of the Statistical Office in Kraków

 

14:45-16:00  

POSTER SESSION/COFFEE BREAK

 
16:00-17:00  

CLOSING SESSION
Summary, Final Reflections and Comments
Moderatorzy: prof. Urszula Marcinkowska Trimboli, PhD; prof. Ilona Nenko, PhD

With representatives:

City of Krakow, Institute of Public Health, Association of Healthy Polish Cities, Novo Nordisk, CEESTAHC, Public Health Foundation

 

19:00  

Dinner – anniversary meeting for employees of the Institute of Public Health