MUDr. Tomáš Szalay, PhD. is a founding partner, senior analyst and executive director of the Health Policy Institute. In the 2023 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and is a member of the NC SR Committee for Health Care. Since 2018, he has been working as a doctor in the Bratislava self-governing region. He studied medicine and from 1996 to 2002 worked as an editor and moderator of TV Markíza. In the period 2002-2004, he was a member of Rudolf Zajac's reform team at the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. He deals with health policy, the availability of health care and health legislation.

A medical student at the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, dedicated to student activism. Since 2022, she has been serving as the President of the Slovak Medical Students' Association (SloMSA), overseeing its member organizations across all Slovak medical faculties and also a member organization of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA). In addition to several projects focused on developing students' knowledge and skills, she actively participates in advocacy activities alongside inspiring future doctors, advocating for the quality of study conditions and medical education in Slovakia. Through valuable opportunities provided by IFMSA and development organization…

MUDr. Jana Bendová, PhD, MPH, MBA is a general practitioner with a particular interest in prevention, screenings as well as prevention of overdiagnosis and treatment. She graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, worked at the pulmonary department in Nitra and Bratislava, later in the field of clinical drug testing and drug safety. Since 2006, she has been working in an outpatient clinic, she is a trainer of medical students and residents in the field of general medicine for the Slovak Medical University and the Medical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In the years 2018 - 2019, she held the position of chief expert of the Ministry of Health for general medicine. He participates in the o…

He completed his studies in general medicine in 2004 at the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Martin. After finishing school, he joined the Children's and Adolescent Clinic of the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University and University Hospital in Martin as a secondary doctor, where he still works today (including as a professor of pediatrics). Since 2005, he worked as an intern and aspirant at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, where he defended his doctorate in pediatric sciences in 2010. In 2007, he defended his doctorate in pediatrics at the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2009, he certified in the field of pediatrics in Bratislava and successfully completed his studies in the field…