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Bernadett M. Varga
Bernadett M. Varga is an independent public health professional of Roma ethnicity. She is a former Scientific Collaborator of the Brussels-based Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), where she co-authored the chapter "Adaptation of Primary Health Care for Migrants: Recommendations and Best Practices" in a Springer publication titled Access to Primary Care and Preventative Health Services of Migrants (2018). She studied Medicine at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary before earning her M.Sc degree in European Public Health at the University of Maastricht, she holds a B.Sc degree in Communications and Public Relations from the University of Szeged, and she also holds a certificate on Strategic Leadership Management from the Harvard Kennedy School – Executive Education. She is an expert on health policies targeting ethnic minorities and migrants, has worked with the Council of Europe, chaired the Budapest-based Roma Health Fund, collaborated with the World Health Organization and the United Nations OHCHR on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) 4&5 in the context of the Decade of Roma Inclusion. Her area of expertise is health inequities, health disparities, and the right and access to healthcare services for vulnerable groups, such as the Roma and migrant populations in Europe. She is a candidate of the United Nations - Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, 2020.