Donata Meroni is Head of the Unit ‘Health monitoring and cooperation, Health networks’, in the Public Health Directorate of DG SANTE, European Commission. She was previously Head of the Unit in the same Directorate dealing with ‘health Promotion and diseases prevention and funding instruments’, and head of the ‘health and food safety’ Unit in the Executive Agency for Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food (CHAFEA) in Luxembourg.

She has been working with the Commission since 2002, when she joined DG SANCO to work at the Food and Veterinary Office in Ireland.

She had worked in Italy for 13 years, in both private and public sector before joining the Commission.