Members of the Board

Honorary president

Prof. Karl Kuhn (Germany)

Working ca 30 years as a Senior Policy Adviser in the function of a Senior Research Director in the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) of Germany; appointed as Adjunct Professor at Griffith University Brisbane/Australia (till the end of 2016). After retirement in 2010 working as an international consultant for OSH on behalf of EU, World Bank and German Ministries in Azerbaijan, Egypt, China. Mongolia, Serbia, Turkey and Qatar. President and Cochair of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP). Lecturer in various Universities in workplace health promotion and health management and in all subjects of health and safety.

Co-Chair

Ms. María Dolores Solé (Spain)

Mª Dolores Solé, specialist in occupational health, worked until 2023 for Centro Nacional de Condiciones de Trabajo (INSST) in the area of occupational health and health promotion, participating in national and EU projects since 1990 as well as in assessment and training on workplace health promotion and occupational risks. She is one of the founder members of ENWHP in 1996. Within the Network she is responsible for Communication and Networking.  

Board Member

Prof. Giuseppe Masanotti (Italy)

Medical Doctor, Specialisation in Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, PhD in Health Promotion and Education and expert Occupational Health. Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Perugia since 2006. Main research activity is in the field of public health, with a particular eye on promotion of health and safety in the workplace. Developed several projects in the years, in particular project Manager of the following projects: "Sensitization of Small and medium enterprises to the culture of safety", "Project FAD distance training for the workers safety representative", “Promotion of health and work ability (PHWA) at workplaces with support of experts of occupational health”, “MoveEurope”, etc. Have over 95 publications in journals, books, reports and communications in Italy and abroad.

Board Member

Mr. Steve Bell (Scotland)

Steve has worked in the field of workplace health for over 25 years and was responsible for setting up the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives in 2005.  He occupied a national leadership role as the Centre’s Director and subsequently the wider role of Director of Health and Work for NHS Health Scotland, the national agency for improving health and tackling health inequality, and led the review of the Scottish Government’s Health and Work Strategy that was published in 2019.   Steve is currently Director of Health Improvement, for Interactive Health Limited, a Scottish based health technology company.   He also works as an executive coach specialising in issues around wellbeing, stress and resilience, and is a British canoeing Level 3 Performance Sea Kayak Coach.  Steve holds an MPhil in Social Policy and Public Health an MBA and a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring.

Board Member

Ms Pania Karnaki (Greece)

Pania is Director of European and International programs at the Athens based Prolepsis Institute. She has studied psychology and has a specialization in health promotion and received her MSc in Health Science from Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. She has managed numerous projects in the field of public health and health promotion. Pania’s research interests include the study of health inequalities, workplace health promotion and the health of vulnerable populations. Previously she has worked in the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine and at the University of Patras as a project coordinator.

Board Member

Ms Biddy O Neill  (Ireland)

Biddy is the National Policy Lead in Healthy Ireland within the Department of Health. She leads on the implementation of the National Healthy Workplace Framework launched in 2021 and also has responsibility for Men’s Health, Mental Health Promotion and Healthy Campuses. She has worked in Health Promotion for over twenty-five years at both strategic and operational levels within the Health Service Executive and the Department of Health Ireland. She has extensive experience in partnership working, policy and programme development and implementation. She is a keen advocate for personal development including reflective practice and believes that facilitative leadership is key to changing workplace culture. She has a background in Nursing and Addiction Counselling and holds an MA in Health Promotion from University of Galway and in 2021 was awarded an MA in Advanced Facilitation Skills for Promoting Health and Wellbeing from the South East Technological University.

Paul Baart MA is director of the Center for Work Health (CWG) in the Netherlands, a knowledge center for Work and Health. He is an early member and contact person of the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP). The Center GBW was the National Contact Office for this network. In his successive positions, he and his organizations are involved in the network in research and projects. From the establishment of ENWHP as a foundation on, until 2018 he was secretary of the board.

Pilar has been part of the Spanish National Institute of Health and Safety at Work (INSST) since September 2024, but her previous career in occupational safety, health, and well-being is very extensive. She holds a degree in Labor Relations and Human Resources, a master’s degree in occupational risk Prevention in the 3 specialties of Safety at Work, Industrial Hygiene and Ergonomics and Psychosociology, and has training in healthy companies. Pilar has been working as a prevention technician for 20 years in different fields and sectors. She started work in a Professional accidents and occupational diseases mutual insurance company and later worked in its associated External Prevention Service for almost 4 years. Since then, she has always worked in companies with their own prevention services, specifically 11 years in the insurance sector, 3 years in environmental services, half a year in the metal industry and the last year at the Complutense University of Madrid, the largest university in Spain. For the last 13 years Pilar have been actively working on the implementation of health promotion programs in the companies in which she has collaborated, and she has found it very gratifying.

Maria Rosaria Vinci is an Occupational Physician and Medical Doctor at the Occupational Medicine Unit of the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome. In addition to her specialization in Occupational medicine, Maria Rosaria holds a PhD in Occupational, Environmental and Social Medicine, a master's degree in Ergonomics, a master's degree in Dietetics and Nutrition and a master’s degree in clinical Ultrasound. Her activities have always focused particularly on aspects of health promotion in the workplace. Lecturer in several university and extra-university courses. Speaker at major congresses on occupational medicine and public hygiene. Member of the Regional Executive of the Italian Society of Occupational Medicine. Member of Total Worker Health Society.