Dr. Iveta NAGYOVA

Dr. Iveta Nagyova (PhD, FABMR) is the Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Medicine and a Senior Research Leader at Pavol Jozef Safarik University (UPJS) in Kosice, Slovakia. She is also the Immediate Past-President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA; 2020–2024), a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Building an Innovation Ecosystem for Public Health at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and a designated National Focal Point for Behavioural and Cultural Insights. Previously, she has served as a member of WHO TAG on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health, the WHO/Europe Regional Director’s Advisory Council on Innovation for Noncommunicable Diseases, and the European Advisory Committee on Health Research (EACHR). At the national level, she serves as an advisor to the WHO Country Office and the Slovak Ministry of Health in the fields of chronic diseases, integrated care, behavioural insights, and public health.

She graduated in Clinical Psychology from UPJS, obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and pursued postgraduate training at the University of Oxford as part of the Oxford International Primary Care Research Leadership Programme. She is actively involved in the development and coordination of research projects, academic publishing, and the supervision of PhD students. Her research interests include biobehavioural and psychosocial innovations in chronic condition prevention and management, non-pharmacological interventions, behaviour change, and improving functional status and quality of life for individuals living with chronic diseases. She is passionate about knowledge translation and improving health outcomes through evidence synthesis, co-design of integrated patient-centred care models, innovative implementation strategies, and scaling up effective interventions.