Team

Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD

Chair of the Board · Director · Scientific Director of the observatories

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 of PHIG · Answers for: strategy, RHWCO and Health & Migration observatories, external relations.

Prof. Irine Pkhakadze, MD, PhD

Board member · Managing Editor, Georgian Medical Journal · Academic programmes lead

Professor, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi. Leads the journal’s editorial production and peer-review process and the institute’s links with Georgian universities; chairs the editorial side of GMJ Academy course quality.

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

Dr. Tamar Kraveishvili, MD

Board member · Lead, Epidemiology and NCDs pillar · Editor, Georgian Medical Journal

Epidemiology and quality of care. Answers for the Epidemiology and NCD research agenda, NCDC and WHO data monitoring, and the journal’s epidemiology section.

ORCID 0009-0009-2473-2568

Dr. Sofio Kutateladze, MD

Board member · Lead, Accreditation, Quality and Patient Safety pillar · Chair, Finance and Audit Committee

Healthcare quality, accreditation and clinical trials. Answers for the quality ladder (certificate.ge, readiness packs, accreditation), for ASF standards adaptation in Georgia, and as independent chair of the Finance and Audit Committee for accounts, audit and risk.

ORCID 0009-0005-2121-1012

Dr. Teona Varshalomidze, MD

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

Accreditation Canada advisor and international programme experience. Answers for the WHO competency-standard trainings (Riga, Kenya), the Health and Migration Observatory’s field programmes, and the Gender Equality Plan and disability-inclusion commitments (Policies 06, 57).

ORCID: not yet registered

Ioseb Demetrashvili

Head of Administration · Grants and procurement · Deputy to the Director for operations

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

Irakli Pshinashvili

Ethics and Compliance Officer · Integrity Officer (Policies 03, 23) · Financial Crimes Focal Point · Secretary, Integrity and Ethics Committee

Receives integrity reports (subject “Confidential — integrity”), leads investigations, keeps the register of interests and the incident register, and reports to the Board quarterly.

Sulkhan Inaishvili

Safeguarding and People Lead · PSEAH and Child Safeguarding Focal Point (Policies 08, 20, 55, 56) · Human resources and volunteers

Safe recruitment, training, safeguarding risk assessments and case management; volunteer and expert engagement (Policy 14); workplace safety and wellbeing (Policy 42).

Tamar Talakvadze

Data Protection Officer (Policy 05) · Research Integrity Officer (Policies 04, 48) · Security and IT Focal Point (Policies 25, 37) · Platforms and data

Answers data-protection requests, keeps the records of processing and the breach register, handles research-misconduct procedures, and oversees the technical operation of the network’s platforms and open-data releases.