Since May 2025, the Board is composed of 7 members, as follows:
• Stefania Negri (elected 2025-2029 for a first term) - President
• Santa Slokenberga (elected 2025–2029 for a second term) - Vice-President
• Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni (elected 2025–2029 for a second term) - Secretary
• André den Exter (elected 2025-2029 for a first term) - Treasurer
• Iryna Senyuta (elected 2025-2029 for a second term)
• Éloïse Gennet (elected 2025-2029 for a first term)
• Tomasz Sroka (elected 2025-2029 for a first term)
President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer represent Executive Committee.
Prof. Dr. Stefania Negri (President)
Stefania Negri holds a Ph.D in International Law and is tenured Associate professor of International Law (qualified as full professor by the Italian Ministry of University and Research since 2018) at the School of Law of the University of Salerno (Italy), where she teaches Public international law, International Health and Environmental Law, and the legal clinic “One Health”. At UNISA Law School she holds the positions of Vice-Dean for International Relations and Erasmus Departmental Coordinator.
Prof. Negri has served as National Contact Point for Italy for the European Association of Health Law from 2016 to 2025.
She is currently the Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “New Visions of the European Union’s Role in Global Health” (EU4GH) and Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “One Health: Global and EU Perspectives” (1HEALTH), both co-funded by the European Commission under the EU Erasmus+ Programme; founder and Director of the “Observatory on Human Rights: Bioethics, Health, Environment” (since 2010); member of the ILA Global Health Law Committee as representative of ILA Italy; co-founder and a member of the coordinating committee of the Interest Group on International Health Law at the European Society of International Law (since 2016); co-founder and co-convener of the Interest Group on International and EU Health Law at the Italian Society of International Law (2016-2018).
In 2021 she was appointed by the Italian Ministry of Health as member of the national delegation representing Italy within the GHSA Legal Preparedness Action Package; she is currently co-Chair of the GHSA LP AP Sub-working Group on One Health.
Prof. Negri was the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair “European Health, Environmental and Food Safety Law” (2016-2019) and Principal Investigator of international research projects, including an Italo-French Galilée Project in partnership with the University of Aix-Marseille and an Italo-German Vigoni Project in partnership with the University of Mannheim, as well as a member of the research group of several international projects financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, the Economic and Social Research Council and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
She has widely published in the fields of international and European human rights law and bioethics, global and EU health law, international and European environmental law, international criminal and procedural law. She is co-Editor of the Journal of Global Health Law (Edward Elgar Publishers).
Santa Slokenberga, LL.D. (Vice-President)
Santa Slokenberga is LL.D. in Medical Law and is a senior lecturer in administrative law at Uppsala University, Sweden. She holds a law degree from Riga Stradins University (Latvia) and an LL.M. in Medical Law and Ethics from the University of Kent (England). Her research, teaching, and supervision interests cluster around questions pertaining to the human genome and biobanking, new technologies in health care, privacy and personal data protection, and the quality of pediatric health care. They also cover more general questions pertaining to human rights in healthcare, pharmaceutical law, and the Europeanisation and constitutionalization of medical law. Santa has authored numerous publications and edited several volumes in the field in English, Swedish, and Latvian. Santa serves as an expert in the Ethico-Legal Board at Biobank Sweden. She is also a Nordic Permed Law association board member and is engaged in health policy questions nationally and internationally.
Dr. Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni (Secretary)
Dr. Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni is Associate Professor of Health Law at the UMIT TIROL - Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology in Austria. She is head of the Program for Health Policy, Administration, Economics and Law at the Institute for Public Health, Medical Decision Making and HTA. Magdalena researches the intersection of law and public health, focusing on reproductive medicine, the (legal) evaluation of human life, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of health care research and ethics. From a methodological perspective, her research combines doctrinal legal research with approaches of empirical legal studies.
Associate Prof. André den Exter (Treasurer)
André den Exter (1966) is an associate professor of health law at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. André holds a Ph.D. in law (diss. Health care law-making in Central and Eastern Europe). He was the holder of a Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Health Law and has held several visiting (associate) professorships in international and European health law, including one at Danylo Medical University Lviv (Ukraine), the National School of Public Health at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), and the University of Bologna (Italy). He has published over 300 scientific contributions covering a wide range of health law topics. Outside the academic setting, he is a member of a regional Medical Disciplinary Board.
contact:
denexter@law.eur.nl
Iryna Senyuta, LL D
Attorney; Chairman of the Committee on Medical and Pharmaceutical Law, and Bioethics of the Ukrainian National Bar Association; Head of the Department of Medical Law of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education of Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University; EAHL National Contact Person in Ukraine (2016-2019); managing partner of MedLex law firm; head of the Center for Medical Law of the UNBA High School of Advocacy; President of NGO “Foundation of Medical Law and Bioethics of Ukraine”; Chairman of the Permanent Arbitration Court at NGO “Foundation of Medical Law and Bioethics of Ukraine”; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board under the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since 2022); Chairman of the Professional Ethics Commission of the Honorable Council of the Order of Saint Panteleimon Honor of the medical profession (since 2022), Honorary Ambassador of Lviv.
Ms. Senyuta has been involved in numerous international projects, including the Open Society Fund and the International Foundation “Renaissance” (project leader on “Human Rights in Patient Care” in Ukraine), the Council of Europe (scientific editor and author of the national part of the HELP program “Basic Principles of Human Rights in Biomedicine”) dedicated to human rights issues in the field of health. She is also an OSCE expert on biological safety and UNDP on HIV and law. She is a member of the Working Group on Public Health at the Association of Public Health Schools in the European Region (ASPHER). Since 2010, Iryna Senyuta is a member of the World Medical Law Association (WAML) and since 2016 a member of the European Health Law Association (EAHL).
Iryna Senyuta combines scientific, teaching, social activities with law practice (specializes in medical law). She is the author of more than 300 scientific papers (monographs, textbooks, manuals, dictionaries, articles) in the fields of medical law, pharmaceutical law, public health law, alternative conflict resolution, and bioethics. Ms Senyuta teaches medical law to medical students, students at postgraduate level (interns, health care lawyers, medical law teachers, health care managers and doctors) at National Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University, as well as law students - at Ukrainian Catholic University, for attorneys - at the UNBA Higher School of Advocacy and for judges - the National School of Judges of Ukraine.
She is chief editor of the scientific and practical journal “Medical Law” and the member of the editorial boards of the scientific and practical journals, such as: “Law of Ukraine” and “Theory and Practice of Intellectual Property”.
Iryna Senyuta's field of interest contain the following issues: medical law, pharmaceutical law, law public health, bioethics, human rights, alternative conflict resolution (in particular, mediation, medical arbitration). The doctoral dissertation was performed on the topic “Civil Legal Relations in the Sphere of Medical Care Provision in Ukraine: Theoretical and Practical Issues”.
Social networks:
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Junior Prof. Éloïse Gennet
Éloïse Gennet is a Junior Professor in European health law at the Centre for International and European Studies and Research (CERIC) at Aix-Marseille University, France.
She has a doctorate in law from Aix-Marseille University (France) and a doctorate in bioethics from the University of Basel (Switzerland).
Her main research interests currently focus on the One Health approach as a normative concept at the interface of human, animal, and environmental health. She is also an expert on questions related to the concept of vulnerability, research ethics, or equity of access to medicines and innovation.
Beyond her teaching in European law and in health law at Aix-Marseille University, she is also the legal faculty representative for CIVIS, Europe's Civic University Alliance funded by the European Commission.
Website: https://dice.univ-amu.fr/fr/membres/eloise-gennet
Prof. Tomasz Sroka
Tomasz Sroka is a professor at the Jagiellonian University and head of the Department of Bioethics and Medical Law at the Jagiellonian University. He was also an assistant professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Jagiellonian University - Collegium Medium from 2016 to 2021. Tomasz Sroka is a member of the Bioethics Committee of the Jagiellonian University and a member of the Student Disciplinary Board. After passing the judicial exam in 2010, he worked as an assistant judge at the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland from 2012 to 2017. Since 2017 he has been a legal advisor at the General Council of the Republic of Poland, where he mainly deals with legal issues related to state liability in health law.
Tomasz Sroka obtained a PhD in law in 2012 on the basis of a dissertation on criminal liability for crimes against life and health committed in connection with the provision of health services. In 2022, he was awarded a “habilitation” in social sciences in the field of law on the basis of a monograph on constitutional, international and European standards of preventive deprivation of liberty, including in relation to various health care institutions.
Tomasz Sroka conducts research in the fields of health (medical) law, criminal law, constitutional law and human rights. In the area of health law, his research interests focus mainly on the following issues: constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals and human rights in health care, duties (obligations) of public authorities in health care and responsibility (liability) of the state in the health care system, principles and rules of medical (health) service provision, financing of health care from public funds, criminal liability in health law, as well as issues related to the interdependence of different branches of law (e.g. constitutional law, human rights law, criminal law, civil law, administrative law) and different interests of individuals and entities in the area of health law.
Personal website: https://tomaszsroka.eu
