Dimitra Panteli

Dimitra is a member of the Observatory’s Senior Management Team and is based at the Secretariat in Brussels.  

Her work focuses on evidence-informed health policy and evidence-based health care in Europe, particularly regarding quality of care, coverage and access. She leads the Observatory´s pillar of work on Innovation and supports its knowledge brokering programme in evidence briefings, webinars and policy dialogues. 

Before joining the Observatory, Dimitra worked as a senior research fellow at the Department of Health Care Management at Technische Universität Berlin, a role she held for more than 10 years. She holds a doctorate in public health from the Technische Universität Berlin, a Masters in Science – Public Health from the Charité Medical University in Berlin (as a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service), and a Medical Degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

She spent the 2016–2017 academic year as a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Washington, DC.