Speakers
Meet our speakers.
Featured Speakers & Contributors 2026
- Prof. Łukasz Balwicki, National Consultant in Public Health, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
- Maria Belka, Co-Founder of the Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
- Artur Białoszewski, President of the Association of Polish Prevention Specialists; Director of the Strategy and Analysis Centre, Warsaw Medical Chamber, Poland
- Elaine Buckley, National Stop Smoking Services Coordinator, Ireland
- Michał Byliniak, Director General, Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies (INFARMA), Poland
- Dr. Magdalena Cedzyńska, Head of the Smoking Cessation Clinic, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland
- Prof. Marzena Dominiak, President of the Polish Dental Society, Vice-Rector for Internationalization, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
- Dr. Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor, Senator, Deputy Chair of the Senate Health Committee, Warsaw, Poland
- Krzysztof Jakubowski, Co-Founder of the Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
- Prof. Paweł Koczkodaj, Head of the Primary Prevention and Health Policy Unit, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
- Nina Krogh Larsen, Project Manager for Tobacco Control – Smoking Prevention, Smoke-Free Environments and Smoking Cessation, Danish Cancer Society, Denmark
- Prof. Alina Kuryłowicz, Dean of the School of Medical Sciences, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education (CMKP), Warsaw, Poland
- Prof. Marta Mańczuk, Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention Department, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
- Andrea Manzano, Associate Research Manager, The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
- Marta Pawłowska, The STOP OBESITY Partnership for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, Łazarski University, Warsaw, Poland
- Prof. Monika Raulinajtys-Grzybek, Head of the Department of Management Accounting, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Head of the SGH Health Care Think Tank, Poland
- Prof. Piotr Rutkowski, Head of the Department of Soft Tissue, Bone and Melanoma Tumours, Director’s Plenipotentiary for the National Oncology Strategy and Clinical Trials, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
- Prof. Marek Svoboda, Director General, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI), Brno, Czech Republic
- And many others from key European institutions and research organizations
Marek Augustyn | Łukasz Balwicki | Maria Belka | Artur Białoszewski | Elaine Buckley | Michał Byliniak | Magdalena Cedzyńska | Marzena Dominiak | Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor | Paweł Grzesiowski | Beata Jagielska | Krzysztof Jakubowski | Adam Jarubas | Paweł Koczkodaj | Nina Krogh Larsen | Alina Kuryłowicz | Andrea Manzano | Marta Mańczuk | Kristina Mauer-Stender | Andrzej Nowakowski | Marta Pawłowska | Monika Raulinajtys-Grzybek | Piotr Rutkowski | Marek Svoboda | Monika Wielichowska | Martyna Wyrzykowska
Prof Beata Jagielska
Director General, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Mr Adam Jarubas
Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Public Health (SANT), Brussels, Belgium
Ms Monika Wielichowska
Deputy Speaker of the Polish Parliament, Warsaw, Poland; Initiator of the 2026 Year of Prevention
Ms Kristina Mauer-Stender
Regional Advisor, Tobacco Control, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof Łukasz Balwicki
National Consultant in Public Health, Head of the Department of Public Health and Social Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
Mr Marek Augustyn
Vice President of the National Health Fund (NFZ), Warsaw, Poland
Prof Paweł Koczkodaj
Head of the Primary Prevention and Health Policy Unit, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Ms Elaine Buckley
National Stop Smoking Services Coordinator, HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme, Dublin, Ireland
PhD Magdalena Cedzyńska
Head of the Smoking Cessation Clinic, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland
Ms Nina Krogh Larsen
Project Manager for Tobacco Control – Smoking Prevention, Smoke-Free Environments and Smoking Cessation, Danish Cancer Society, Denmark
PhD Paweł Grzesiowski
Chief Sanitary Inspector, Warsaw, Poland
Prof Marta Mańczuk
Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention Department, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Prof Michał Byliniak
Director General, Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies (INFARMA), Poland
Prof Marzena Dominiak
President of the Polish Dental Society; Vice-Rector for Internationalization, Wrocław Medical University, Poland
Prof Andrzej Nowakowski
President of the Polish Dental Society; Vice-Rector for Internationalization, Wrocław Medical University, Poland
Prof Andrea Manzano
Associate Research Manager, The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Prof Piotr Rutkowski
Head of the Department of Soft Tissue, Bone and Melanoma Tumours; Director's Plenipotentiary for the National Oncology Strategy and Clinical Trials, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Ms Martyna Wyrzykowska
Managing Director and Vice President of The Management Board of the SEXEDPL Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Ms Marta Pawłowska
Chair of the Presidium, The STOP OBESITY Partnership for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, Łazarski University, Warsaw, Poland
PhD Artur Białoszewski
President of the Association of Polish Prevention Specialists; Director of the Strategy and Analysis Centre, Warsaw Medical Chamber; Medical University of Warsaw; SGH, Poland
PhD Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor
Senator, Deputy Chair of the Senate Health Committee, Warsaw, Poland
Prof Alina Kuryłowicz
Dean of the School of Medical Sciences, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education (CMKP), Warsaw, Poland
Prof Monika Raulinajtys-Grzybek
Head of the Department of Management Accounting, SGH; Head of the SGH Health Care Think Tank, Poland
Prof Marek Svoboda
Director General, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI), Brno, Czech Republic
Ms Maria Belka
Co-founder, Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Mr Krzysztof Jakubowski
Co-founder, Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Mr Krzysztof Jakubowski
Co-founder, Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw