MUDr. Tomáš Szalay, PhD. is a founding partner, senior analyst and executive director of the Health Policy Institute. In the 2023 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and is a member of the NC SR Committee for Health Care. Since 2018, he has been working as a doctor in the Bratislava self-governing region. He studied medicine and from 1996 to 2002 worked as an editor and moderator of TV Markíza. In the period 2002-2004, he was a member of Rudolf Zajac's reform team at the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. He deals with health policy, the availability of health care and health legislation.

Since 2012, member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and member of the Health Care Committee. Head of the Urological Clinic of the SZU FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica, the main expert of the Ministry of Health of the SR for urology. For many years he worked in the management of FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica (deputy for LPS, director). The main center of interest is innovation, robotic surgery (head of the Center for Robotic Surgery in Banská Bystrica) and transplant medicine (head of the Transplantation Center at FNsP FDR Banská Bystrica).

Doctor, university lecturer and politician who served as Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic from March 2018 to December 2019. From April 2016 to March 2018, she held the position of State Secretary at the Ministry of Health. In March 2020, she served as an advisor to the Prime Minister during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. She completed her doctoral studies in general medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava and her doctoral studies in public health at the Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Trnava in Trnava. Later, she passed her specialisation examinations in internal medicine and tropical medicine at the Slovak University of Health Sciences in Bratislava (SZU) and habilitatio…