Mircea-Ioan Popa has been a Microbiology Professor at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy since 2006. He has worked at the Cantacuzino National Military Medical Institute for Research and Development since 2017 and the Cantacuzino Institute since 1997. He has completed the Applied Epidemiology Introductory Course (CDC, Atlanta and Emory University, 1999) and the EPIET Introductory Course (2001). He was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Regional Committee for Europe (SCRC, 2000–2001). He coordinated the catch-up campaign for measles and rubella (1998–1999). He initiated (2000) the PHARE Project, co-financed by the Ministry of Health. He worked with WHO EMRO in Afghanistan (2002–2003) and acted as the National Microbiology Focal Point to the ECDC (2007–2009), Director of the Preventive Medicine Department (1997–1999), General Director for Public Health (1999–2001), and Co-Chair of the National Commission on Epidemiology (2005–2006) within the Romanian Ministry of Health. He was the General Director of the Cantacuzino Institute (2017–2018), Scientific Director of the Cantacuzino Institute (2018-2019), and a member of the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee as an external expert (infectious disease prevention and control). He has authored/co-authored more than 270 publications in national/international journals and chapters in national/international books. He obtained his PhD in 1998 and Master of Management in Social Services and Healthcare in 2001.
Gabriela-Loredana Popa has been an Associate Professor at the Carol Davila University of Medicine
and Pharmacy. She has been a Medical Doctor (Parasitology) at the Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest since 1994. Her research interests include parasitology, as well as other important subjects, including antimicrobial susceptibility testing; multidrug resistance phenotypes; lichen planus; oxidative stress; antioxidants; and viral, bacterial, and micotic infections, including prevention and control. She was involved in national and international public health research on zoonotic cestodes, with a long-standing experience in the epidemiology and biology of helminthic zoonoses. She was an Investigator in three European research projects (Human cystic Echinococcosis ReseArch in CentraL and Eastern Societies
– HERACLES, FP7; COST Action FA 1408 A European Network for Foodborne Parasites; Action Plan on Science in Society in Epidemics and Total Pandemics – ASSET, FP7) and other national and international studies. She has good communication and managerial skills, gained through teaching, research, and management experience. She has authored/co-authored more than 140 publications in national/international medical journals, and has been a Guest Editor for two Special Issues of Antibiotics. Gabriela-Loredana Popa obtained a PhD in Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in 2003.
