Advisory committee - Individual member

Andrzej Ryś

Medical Research Agency Council, Poland

Dr. Andrzej Ryś is a medical doctor specialised in radiology and public health, graduated from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. He founded in 1991 and ran as Director until 1997 the School of Public Health at the Jagiellonian University.

Thereafter, from 1997 -1999, he served as Director of the Krakow’s City Health Department. Between 1999 -2002, he continued his career as Deputy Minister of Health in Poland where he was member of the Polish EU accession negotiators team for the harmonisation of the Polish Health Care Law with the EU’s Acquis Communautaire. After becoming Senior Consultant of “Health and Management Ltd” for the World Bank (WHO) and EAR in Serbia (2002), he founded (2003) the “Center for Innovation, Technology Transfer and University Development” (CITTRU) at the Jagiellonian University, where he was Director until 2006.

In 2006, he became Director for Public Health and Risk Assessment at the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO), in the European Commission. From 2011-2014, he assumed the position of Director for Health Systems and Products in DG SANCO. From 2014 - 2025, Dr. Andrzej Rys was the Director responsible for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation in DG SANTE.