Iryna Senuta was chosen the new member of Board of European Association of Health Law
On September 26th 2019 was held a meeting of General Assembly of European Association of Health Law with the framework of the 7th conference of European Association of Health Law «Innovations and health care: new challenges for Europe» (25-27.09.2019, Toulouse, France).
At the meeting of the Assembly the head of the Committee on medical and pharmaceutical law and bioethics of National association of advocates of Ukraine, national representative of EAHL in Ukraine Iryna Senuta was chosen a new member of the Board of European Association of Health Law for the term of 8 years. That is the first time in the history of EAHL, when a Ukrainian representative was chosen to the Board of EAHL!
Representation of Ukraine in the Board of EAHL will serve as a new scale for cooperation of national institutions, specialists, who are interested in the topic of medical law, with the representatives of different countries, first and foremost with european ones, spreading the EAHL experience and multiplication of achievements into european treasury of medical law.
On the picture: new members of the EAHL Board
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