Mr. Dimitris Papamichail is an epidemiologist – public health nurse and for the last, almost, twenty-five years he has been actively involved in positions of responsibility on epidemiology, public health, research methodology, prevention, epidemiological surveillance, outbreak investigation and primary health care both at an academic-research level and in his field of work.

He graduated with honors from the Department of Nursing of the National University of Athens, holds two postgraduate degrees: a) in “Organization and Administration of Health Services” from the National University of Athens and b) in “Public Health” from the National School of Public Health (NSPH), and holds a PhD (with honors) from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

He works as a Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP) at the Department of Public Health Policy (formerly NSPH) of the University of West Attica, with a rich teaching experience, at postgraduate and undergraduate levels with active participation in >25 research programs and in the conduct of 6 national epidemiological studies. He collaborates in the fields of research and teaching at postgraduate level with the Athens Medical School and the Thessaloniki Medical School, while at the same time he has participated as a facilitator in European educational programs (EPIET/EUPHEM, MediPIET) on field epidemiology.

Since 2013, he has been systematically collaborating with the Directorate of Social and Developmental Pediatrics of the Institute of Child Health in programs and actions related to prevention, public health and evidence-based primary health care in childhood.

During the period 2002–2007 he worked in the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance and Intervention of the National Public Health Organization and was one of the coordinators of the Syndromic Epidemiological Surveillance Program of the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.

He has 20 published papers in international and Greek scientific journals (citations: 629, h-index: 13), participation in the writing of books and research project reports while he has >50 announcements in international and Greek scientific conferences and workshops.