“I believe that the COVID-19 Council will play a fundamental role in working out the best solutions for the functioning of the health care, but also in terms of social, economic and education affairs, as well as broadly understood security policy of the Polish state,” stressed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

COVID-19 Council – primary tasks

The COVID-19 Council’s primary tasks include the following:

• analysing and assessing the current health, economic and social conditions in Poland, in terms of preventing and combating the impact of the pandemic;
• preparing and submitting proposals for actions to prevent and combat the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with particular emphasis on the health care sector;
• providing feedback on draft legislation and other government documents with significant impact on issues relating to preventing and combating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Council – members

The COVID-19 Council is composed of experts in various medical fields, as well as socio-economic science specialists. Representatives of the Ministry of Health and other institutions will also participate in the Council’s sessions.

Medical experts

• infectious diseases – prof. dr hab. n. med. Andrzej Horban;
• surgery – prof. dr hab. n. med. Piotr Czauderna (Medical University of Gdańsk, Department of Surgery and Urology for Children and Adolescents);
• neurosurgery – dr n. med. Artur Zaczyński (Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration);
• vaccinology – dr hab. n. med. Ewa Augustynowicz (National Institute of Hygiene);
• infectious diseases, immunologyy - prof. dr hab. Tomasz Laskus
• cardiology – prof. dr hab. n. med. Tomasz Hryniewiecki (National Consultant in the Field of Cardiology);
• neurology, psychiatry – prof. dr hab. n. med. Halina Sienkiewicz-Jarosz (Director of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology);
• child psychiatry – prof. dr hab. n. med. Małgorzata Janas-Kozik (Medical University of Silesia in Katowice);
• pulmonology, microbiology – prof. dr hab. n. med. Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć (Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases);
• oncology – dr hab. n. med. Beata Jagielska (Mazowieckie Voivodeship Consultant in the Field of Clinical Oncology);
• prevention, public health – dr n. o zdr. Magdalena Czarkowska (Deputy Director of the Witold Chodźko Institute of Rural Health in Lublin);
• rehabilitation – prof. dr hab. n. med. Jan Szczegielniak (Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Ministry of Health Plenipotentiary for Post-COVID-19 Rehabilitation)
• anaesthesiology – dr n. med. Marek Migdał (Director of the Children's Memorial Health Institute, member of an EMA committee);
• infectious diseases, vaccinology, paediatrics – prof. dr hab. n. med. Leszek Szenborn (University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław);
• family medicine – prof. dr hab. n. med. Katarzyna Życińska (Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Medical University of Warsaw);
• internal medicine – prof. dr hab. n. med. Jacek Różański (National Consultant in the Field of Internal Medicine);
• laboratory diagnostics – dr n. med. Ewa Leporowska (Laboratory Director at the Poznań Cancer Centre);
• medical rescue – prof. dr hab. n. med. Jerzy Ładny (Medical University of Białystok);

Experts in the field of socio-economic sciences

• sociologist – dr Marcin Zarzecki (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, National School of Public Administration);
• sociologist – dr hab. Michał Łuczewski (University of Warsaw);
• statistician, forecaster – dr inż. Franciszek Rakowski (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computer Modelling at the University of Warsaw);
• economist – dr hab. Mariusz Andrzejewski, prof. UEK (Cracow University of Economics);
• lawyer – dr hab. Krzysztof Koźmiński (Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw);
• psychologist – dr Tomasz Rowiński (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University);

Institution representatives

• Adam Niedzielski, Minister of Health;
• Grzegorz Cessak, President of the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products;
• Filip Nowak, President of the National Health Fund;
• Grzegorz Juszczyk, Director of the National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene;
• Krzysztof Saczka, Chief Sanitary Inspector;
• Ewa Krajewska, Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector.