Alexis Benos is a Public Health / Social Medicine physician and Professor Emeritus in Hygiene, Social Medicine & Primary Health Care at the AUTH Department of Medicine, working in the Laboratory of Primary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research of the AUTH Medical Department. .
His research, educational and training work as his relevant social activity are centred to the topics of Public Health, Health Policy and Primary 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.

Bettina Haidich is statistician and Reader in Hygiene and Medical Statistics at the AUTH Laboratory of Hygiene. She is teaching Medical Statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research interests include epidemiology, medical statistics and specifically the methodology of clinical trials and meta analysis. Peer reviewer and memeber of the editorial board of international scientific journals and of the Cochrane Statistical Methods Group.

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.

Athina Tatsioni graduated from the Medical School of the University of Ioannina in Greece. She has been a Board-certified physician for General Practice /Family Medicine. Dr Tatsioni completed her PhD thesis under Professor John Ioannidis’ supervision in the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Medical School of the University of Ioannina. She has also worked at the Evidence-based Practice Center at Tufts-New England Medical Center as a postdoctoral research fellow for 2 years. She has been an Assistant Professor of Medicine (adjunct) (2005-2019) at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, USA. In 2009, she was appointed initially as a lecturer and then as an Assistant Professor (2013) in the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Ioannina in Greece. Since 2019, she has been an Associate Professor and Head in the Research Unit for General Practice /Family Medicine and Primary Health Care in the Faculty of Medicine of School of Health Sciences of the University of Ioannina in Greece. Since 2009, Dr Tatsioni has been involved in organizing and teaching the course “General Medicine” in the undergraduate medical students in the University of Ioannina. She has also participated in teaching research methodology for post-graduate MSc programs in several universities in Greece including Ioannina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaly, and Crete. She has been National Representative for Greece (2009-2020) in European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN). Dr Tatsioni’s major research interests include evidence quality assessment, evidence synthesis methodology (systematic reviews, meta-analyses), diagnostic technology assessment methodology, comparative effectiveness methodology, and clinical decision in primary health care. Dr Tatsioni has performed a number of studies focusing mainly on empirical evaluation of published literature, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. She has coauthored systematic reviews and meta-analyses on a broad range of clinical subjects and methodological issues, which have been published in high impact peer-reviewed journals including Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, and the Lancet. Currently, she has 88 publications in international peer reviewed journals that have received more than 3,000 citations, and an h-index 27. She is the supervisor for five PhD students and collaborates with several additional researchers and faculty members in Greece and abroad. Dr Tatsioni has reviewed submitted manuscripts for several international journals including BMC Family Practice, BMC Medical Research Methodology, BMC Research Notes, British Journal of Nutrition, Case Reports in Medicine, Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Family Practice, Frontiers in Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine, International Journal of Family Medicine, PLOS One, Primary Health Care Research & Development, Rural and Remote Health. She has served as Coordinating Editor for European Journal of Clinical Investigation (2010-2019). She has also served as Associate Editor for BMC Family Practice (2014-2019). Since 2019 she is Associate Editor for the European Journal of General Practice.

Apostolos Tsapas is an internal medicine physician and Professor of Medicine at Aristotle University Thessaloniki. He is head of the Diabetes Centre and of the Second Medical Department at Ippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is also lead investigator at the Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Unit at Aristotle University (cebm.med.auth.gr), and senior research fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, UK.
His main research interests include knowledge synthesis (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), evidence-based practice, and clinical decision making in medicine and diabetes.

Anastasia Zissi is Professor in Community and Mental Health at the Aegean University Sociological and Cultural Digital Documentation Lab.
She has  a wealth of experience in research design and methodology in social research, in focus groups and in qualitative and quantitative research. She is Head of the  Sociological and Cultural Digital Documentation Lab and scientific coordinator of research programmes related to studies of communities, mental health, social deviation and class inequalities.