About Us

Learn more about our mission and goals for our website Defend Against Covid-19



Who We Are

Defend Against Covid-19 is an independent population health research center located in Greece that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems around the virus Covid-19 and evaluates the strategies used to address them. Defend Against COVID-19 makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.


Defend Against Covid-19 aspires to make available to the world high-quality information on population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems.



Our Management Team

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Ioannis Argyriou

Director of Enterprise Data Management

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Konstantina Athanasakopoulou

DAC19 Director, Chair, Department of Health Metrics Sciences

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Xanthippi Kanavetsadou

Director of Visualizations and Web Development

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Piotr Rzezwicki

Director Of Scientific Communications

What we do

To help people live longer lives in better health worldwide, we work with a broad network of researchers, statisticians, and policymakers, following a science-based, collaborative approach to defend against Covid-19.

Knowledge Sharing

Because health improvement often starts from within communities, we invite the public to help us interpret our results and advance health metrics and evaluation through reports, policy discussions, data visualizations, and other activities.

Data Relevance

To better guide health policy, we make our findings comparable across time and populations using the most recent data available, and we provide information at the most local area of measurement possible.

Scientific Excellence

Because everyone deserves to live a long life in full health, better evidence of what works and what doesn’t is needed to help society achieve this goal.

Collaboration

We foster a transparent and constructive dialogue and debate about all aspects of health measurement.

World Improvement

above all else, we pursue excellence in scientific advancement aimed at improving population health.

Support

People and organizations who want to help fight the pandemic and support DAC19 and partners can now donate through our e-shop.