Akaki Zoidze

MD, Expert in Health Policy and Systems

Dr. Akaki Zoidze has over 25 years of experience as an international expert in health policy and health reforms. 

In a high-level policymaker’s capacity as the Deputy State (Prime) Minister of Georgia in 2001-2003, and later as the elected member of the parliament and the Chair of the Healthcare and Social Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia in 2016-2019, he was responsible for overseeing the health and social sector reforms in Georgia and adoption of a package of groundbreaking new generation tobacco control legislation, for which he received the WHO European Region’s World No Tobacco Day award in 2018. 

Dr. Zoidze has more than 20 years of experience in international policymaking as a consultant and advisor to the UN organizations, including WHO, World Bank, EU, USAID, GAVI, Global Fund, DFID, ADB and other multilateral and bilateral development partners. In these capacities, he led or actively participated in global and national public health initiatives and health policy development and implementation efforts in fifteen Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries.

Dr. Akaki Zoidze has more than 15 years of experience in Health Policy and Systems Research and is the author of more than 20 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In 2020, he was also elected as an Associate Professor of the School of Natural Sciences and Medicine of Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, and teaches Health Policy and Systems.

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