AGIS D. TSOUROS, M.D., Ph.D., FFPH
World Health Organization
Regional Office for Europe
Copenhagen Denmark
Agis Tsouros was born in Athens. He has a degree in medicine from the University of Athens
and a Master’s Certificate and a Ph.D. in public health from the University of Nottingham and
he is an accredited public health specialist and Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK).
He is Director of the Division of Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing at the WHO
Regional Office for Europe. The Division is responsible for the implementation of the new
European Health Policy - Health 2020; national and sub-national health policies; governance for
health; social determinants of health and mainstreaming equity, gender and human rights;
vulnerability and health including migrants and Roma health; the Healthy Cities and Regions for
Health networks; mainstreaming health promotion and coordination of the healthy settings
networks. Since he joined the WHO Regional Office for Europe in 1988 he has had
programmatic and managerial responsibility for several areas including urban health policies
and healthy cities; healthy ageing, public health functions, non-communicable diseases and risk
factors, environmental health and health policies at national and sub-national levels. During
the period 2004 to 2006 he was seconded to the Greek Ministry of Health and he then assumed
the position of Chairman of the National Board of Public Health and President of the Greek
CDC. He played a central role in the public health preparedness for the Athens 2004 Olympic
Games.
Agis Tsouros is fluent in English, Italian, French and Greek and is particularly interested in health
policy development at all levels, health promotion and lifestyles issues, governance for health
and health in all policies, sustainable development, health assets approaches, urban planning
and health and action addressing equity and the social determinants of health.