Eirini Agapidaki

Eirini Agapidaki

Alternate Minister of Health

Hellenic Republic

Eirini Agapidaki is a Psychologist, with an MSc in Health Promotion and Education from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
and a PhD in Health Psychology from the same university. She has also been specialized in matters of prevention of mental disorders and promotion of mental health. In addition, she has many years of teaching and research experience in the fields of public health policy, public health research methodology and mental health promotion – in the context of national, European and international research programs. She has worked for many years as a research associate at the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In the recent years she was elected as a Lecturer in Public Health, at the Medical School of the European University of Cyprus. She has written and published research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, while she has presented the results of her research papers at many national and international conferences.
In 2019, she resigned from her academic role in order to take up her duties as the Special Secretary for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors (at the Ministry of Migration and Asylum) where she remained until 2022. At the end of December 2022, she assumed her duties as Secretary General of Public Health, implementing, among other things: the pediatric digital child book, so that our country can finally have official and reliable data
while at the same time extensive vaccinations were implemented in vulnerable populations. In addition, the new plan called “Spyros Doxiades” was developed for the prevention, protection and health promotion of the main chronic diseases – which includes over 20 actions of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, with a budget of over 300 million euros. Since July 2023 she serves as the Alternate Minister of Health and as a member of the Greek Parliament.