Team

Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD

Chair of the Board · Director · Scientific Director

Professor and Head of the School of Public Health, David Tvildiani Medical University; Editor-in-Chief, Georgian Medical Journal; founder and President, Accréditation Sans Frontières (Paris); Secretary/Treasurer, UEMS Section of Public Health; WHO consultant on health and migration; former member of the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel; principal public health adviser to the Government of Georgia during COVID-19 (2020–2022); former Deputy CEO, Evex Medical Corporation.

ORCID 0000-0001-7609-4515 · Legal representative · Answers for strategy, the observatories, international relations and editorial accountability.

Sulkhan Inaishvili

Deputy Director · Safeguarding and People Lead · PSEAH and Child Safeguarding Focal Point (Policies 08, 20, 55, 56)

Deputises for the Director; leads people, safeguarding, recruitment and training; manages the expert pool and volunteers (Policy 14); workplace safety and wellbeing (Policy 42). Second signatory for operations under the delegation of authority (Policy 17).

Tamar Talakvadze

Head of Quality · Data Protection Officer (Policy 05) · Research Integrity Officer (Policies 04, 48)

Quality management across the platforms — the quality ladder (certificate.ge, readiness, accreditation support), internal quality system and audit follow-up; statutory data-protection and research-integrity functions.

Dr. Sofio Kutateladze, MD

Epidemiologist · Lead, Epidemiology and NCDs · Board member · Chair, Finance and Audit Committee

Epidemiological analysis, NCD surveillance monitoring (NCDC, WHO), the Epidemiology research agenda and the journal’s epidemiology section; as independent chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, oversight of accounts, audit and risk.

ORCID 0009-0005-2121-1012

Dr. Tamar Kraveishvili, MD

Head of Data and Evidence · Board member · Editor, Georgian Medical Journal

Datasets, open-data releases and the observatories’ evidence bases (RHWCO, Health and Migration); data quality for Sheni Labs and SupplementIndex; MEAL indicators (Policy 40); open science (Policy 10).

ORCID 0009-0009-2473-2568

Irakli Pshinashvili

Head of Assessments · Ethics and Compliance Officer · Integrity Officer (Policies 03, 23) · Financial Crimes Focal Point

Quality and safety assessments — facility certification visits, readiness assessments, Sheni Labs verdict process — and the institute’s compliance function: integrity reports, investigations, the register of interests and the incident register; secretary of the Integrity and Ethics Committee.

Ioseb Demetrashvili

Head of Administration and Logistics

Office, contracts, procurement (Policy 11), grant files and donor reporting (Policies 28, 12), travel, assets and events logistics. First contact for partners on administrative matters.

Irina Datashvili

Head of Media · Deputy Editor-in-Chief · Director, Sheni network relations

Everything that reaches the public through the Sheni media network and GMJ News: editorial planning, the daily desks (Policies 27, 50), social media and video, campaigns, the corrections record; deputy to the Editor-in-Chief for public communication.

Prof. Irine Pkhakadze, MD, PhD

Head of Health Education and Quality of Training · Managing Editor, Georgian Medical Journal · Board member

Professor, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi. Quality of GMJ Academy courses and certificates, competency-based curricula, links with Georgian universities; editorial production and peer review of the journal.

ORCID 0009-0003-8699-2919 · Family relationship to the Chair disclosed; excluded from decisions concerning the Chair (Policy 51).

Dr. Teona Varshalomidze, MD

Lead, Health and Migration programmes · Accreditation Canada adviser · Gender and Inclusion Focal Point · Board member

WHO competency-standard trainings (Riga, Kenya), the Health and Migration Observatory’s field programmes, accreditation advisory with Accreditation Canada; Gender Equality Plan and disability-inclusion commitments (Policies 06, 57).