Email:

soreskov@iu.edu

Departments:

Community and Global Health

Biography

Stjepan is a full professor at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for HIV Strategic Information working with experts, scholars, and policymakers from 111 countries and educating more than 2600 students in the course of the last 15 years. He was a director of Andrija Štampar School of Public Health.

He is a principal investigator (PI) for Pfizer's GLOBAL GRAND PROJECT (2017 2023): "Varenicline Versus Cytisine for Smoking Cessation" a head to head multicentric multidisciplinary non-inferiority trial comprising teams of clinical, behavioral and data science experts from Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Ljubljana and University of Zagreb Faculty of Medicine.

He has led a range of educational, research, and consultancy projects and taught at the London School of Economics & Political Science, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bocconi, Trieste, L'Ecole Nationale de Sante Publique and Ljubljana University. He is a Fellow at Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health & Social Medicine – Center for Bioethics (EXT) and at the Institute of Coaching McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School Associate.

Professor Oreskovic co-chairs the Data Science and the Right to Science Conference, aiming to develop a formatted interdisciplinary dialog between social, behavioral, and life scientist coming from a variety of disciplines (biology, bioinformatics, genetic medicine and neurosciences, sociology, psychology, bioethics and philosophy) to discuss, with representatives of international organizations and governments as well as other actors, including civil society movements, research networks and corporations, the possibility of a new framework for data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and its application to health, medical sciences and biotechnological advancements.

He has authored 156 peer-reviewed papers (Google Scholar: h-19 and i10-33 index) with leading global publishers, such as Springer Publishing, Elsevier Science, Wiley-Blackwell, and Pergamon Press, and has co-authored and contributed to 15 books published by John Wiley and Sons, VDM Verlag OmniScriptum, Cambridge University Press and others.

He also worked as a consultant for international organizations such as The World Bank, the EU Commission, and the World Health Organization.

Professor Oreskovic is best known for his projects fostering innovative health care interventions in the area of tobacco control, obesity prevention, internet addiction and HIV surveillance. His projects were featured in the Lancet and the BMJ. He has contributed to the leading international media, including Bloomberg, CNN, BBC, NBC, Huffington Post, Reuters, RTL and other fora.