Assoc. Prof. Dr. Enkeleint Aggelos Mechili
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Enkeleint A. Mechili, MSc, PhD (male, 38 years old) is a graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and holds a Master and PhD from the same University. During his PhD, Mr. Mechili investigated the impacts of Greek financial crisis in health status (and especially the population quality of life). Since 2013, he is a Lecturer at Faculty of Public Health, University of Vlora, Albania. From January 2017 till 2018, Dr. Mechili served as Vice-Rector of Vlora University. Since September 2020 he serves also as vice Rector for Research and Institutional Development. His research focuses mainly on Health Policy, Public Health, Epidemiology and Tobacco Cessation. Since January 2016 he is a research associate at Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete. He is also member of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator Network. Prof. Mechili has more than 60 published articles in peer review journals, is (co)author of chapters in different books and has participated and presented scientific research in many international conferences. In addition, he is a regular evaluator of international journals in public health and prevention. Dr. Mechili has been involved in several European projects. In 2013, he worked at BioMed (Marie-Curie programme) programme in Jordan. Since January 2016, he was involved at EUR-HUMAN project (CHAFEA project). Dr. Mechili has been involved also at EURST-PLUS project (Horizon 2020). Since 2017, Dr. Mechili worked at EPACTT-2 project as coordinator of Albanian team. Since October 2019 is working at Know-Hub Project (Erasmus KA2 project) and since May 2020 at EPACT-2020 project. Dr. Mechili is a Tobacco Treatment Specialist certified by Mayo Nicotine Dependence Center, USA. He has trained doctors, nurses, and healthcare providers for tobacco cessation in different settings across Europe including, Romania, Slovenia, France, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan etc. Dr. Mechili has hold classes in different countries and is an Editorial Board Member of different Journals including Plos One Journal, Population Medicine Journal etc. Currently he is working at MARDS, MEP&M and TTO4FOOD project. At University of Vlora Dr. Mechili teaches Research Methodology, Health Management, Public Health and Tobacco Cessation. Additionally, Prof. Mechili has held classes in different countries in Europe such as Greece, Belgium, Estonia, Turkey, Spain, Lithuania etc. To some extent, Prof. Mechili is an evaluator of European projects at European Commission as well as expert evaluator of grant applications at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.