Dr Iveta Nagyova (PhD, FABMR) is the Head of the Department of Social and Behavioural Medicine at Pavol Jozef Safarik University (UPJS) in Kosice, Slovakia. She is also the Immediate Past President of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA; 2020–2024), Chair of the EUPHA/EPH Conference Foundation, a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Building an Innovation Ecosystem for Public Health at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and a designated WHO/Europe National Focal Point for Behavioural and Cultural Insights. Previously, she served as a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health, the WHO/Europe Regional Director’s Advisory Council on Innovation for NCDs, and the European Advisory Committee on Health Research (EACHR). She is actively involved in the development and coordination of research projects, academic publishing, and the supervision of PhD students. Her research interests include biobehavioural and psychosocial innovations in chronic condition prevention and management, non-pharmacological interventions, behaviour change, and improving functional status and quality of life for individuals living with chronic disease. She is passionate about knowledge translation and improving health outcomes through evidence synthesis, co-design of integrated patient-centred care models, inventive implementation strategies, and scaling up effective interventions.