Mario Fafangel
Mario Fafangel | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
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| Profession | Epidemiologist |
Mario Fafangel Jr. /fa'fændʒel/[1] is a medical doctor who is Slovenia's head epidemiologist as head of the Communicable Diseases Centre at the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).[2] He earned an M.D. from the University of Trieste in 2007.[3] He resigned from Janez Janša's government's COVID-19 advisory group as chief epidemiologist because his evidence-based proposals were not listened to by political members of the group.[4]
Awards
[edit]He was awarded the Name of the Year 2020 award by major Slovenian newspaper Delo.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "How to properly pronounce a surname of Mario Fafangel" (in Slovenian). Televizija Slovenija. 18 August 2022.
- ↑ Spoznajte kolumniste N1 – Mario Fafangel, N1 United Media, 15 June 2021
- ↑ "Curriculum vitae : Mario Fafangel" (PDF). European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
- ↑ Slovenia's chief epidemiologist quits Covid-19 advisory team, Slovenian Press Agency, 7 December 2020.
- ↑ Epidemiologist Fafangel Delo's person of the year, Slovenian Press Agency, 7 January 2021.
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