Caroline Costongs

Caroline Costongs is Director of EuroHealthNet, the European Partnership for improving health, social equity and wellbeing, based in Brussels. Caroline leads a multi-disciplinary team working on European Union and (sub)national policy, research and capacity building addressing health inequalities and the social determinants of health. She oversees EuroHealthNet’s Framework Agreement with the European Commission (2022-2026) and leads on activities taking forward EuroHealthNet’s MoU with WHO Europe (2021-2026).

In BlueAdapt, Caroline supervises the policy advocacy led by EuroHealthNet to engage European and national policymakers with the project’s evidence-based calls to action. Caroline is active in various EU and WHO forums, as well as in Advisory Boards of European projects and is a member of the Economy of Wellbeing Expert Group for Finland and of the ICC - International Council for the European Public Health Conference. She is also an Advisory Board member of the European Health Forum Gastein.