Elisabeth Kounougeri Petsetaki is a senior lecturer at the Department of Health Services Management in the National School of Public Health, Greece (NSPH) where she teaches health services management courses in the postgraduate program. She has a degree in Biology from Rice University and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a health educator in the U.S. she directed programs for school-age children, and for cancer patients under treatment, rehabilitation and long term care at UCLA, and was also involved in the efforts of tobacco control in California. In Greece she works in the area of human resources development and improving management capacity in health services organizations and has played a strategic role in the development of the health services management postgraduate program at the NSPH. She is involved in European collaborative projects including: development of health services management courses, health workforce issues, infrastructure development in public health, European health reforms, interregional health, market forces, public health ethics, the management of health and care services of the elderly, access to health, and tobacco control research efforts. She is an active member of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), and has served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Health and on the Board. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Policy and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal Society, Economics and Health (Greek). At Hellenic American University, she teaches healthcare management courses at the MBA\PMBA level.
