Career Compass 2025

Ioannis Karagiannis is an epidemiologist working as a consultant with WHO EURO. After completing his fellowship, he was head of the Foodborne Diseases Unit at the National Public Health Institute in Greece before working as an EPIET coordinator and a UK-FETP senior scientific coordinator. He later worked as a field epidemiologist with the UK-PHRST and head of recruitment at the SIREN study in the UK before moving on to the Western Pacific Region Office and then the European Region Office of WHO to work with SARS-CoV-2 in the human-animal interface, food safety and the current global mpox outbreak. He has been the president of EAN since 2023.

Liza Coyer is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Public Health Service of the Utrecht region (GGDrU), the Netherlands. She holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and STIs, followed by a postdoc on ethnic inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 at the Public Health Service of Amsterdam. She completed her EPIET fellowship (cohort 2021) at the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority in Germany, while continuing to contribute to hepatitis C projects in Cameroon for PharmAccess Foundation. After a career break for travel, she worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization on meningitis and epidemic bacterial diseases. At GGDrU, she focuses on surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, and research on zoonoses and healthy living environments. She also serves on the boards of the EPIET Alumni Network and the Dutch Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group.