Professor Emeritus of Hygiene, Social Medicine, and Primary Health Care, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Primary Health Care Laboratory, General Medicine & Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Graduate of the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Ph.D. from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Postgraduate studies at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and research fellow at the Epidemiology Research Unit of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital in London.
He holds a specialty certification in Internal Medicine as well as a specialty certification in Social Medicine.
Throughout his academic career, Mr. Benos has produced a wealth of research and related publications in the fields of Hygiene, Social Medicine, and Primary Health Care, with a focus on social epidemiology, applied epidemiological research in the community, as well as research on health services and health policy.
He served as coordinator of the National Program for Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Primary Health Care from 2004 to 2012.
He served as coordinator of the Ministry of Health’s Working Group on the reform of primary health care, which submitted its report in June 2015, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of KEELPNO and Coordinator of the KESY Working Group on the specialty of Public Health and Social Medicine
Elected President of the International Association of Health Policy for several years, he was also a founding member and member of the Executive Committee of the People’s Health Movement, as well as a member of several scientific societies with related fields of study.
