Prof. dr. habil. KATARZYNA (Kasia) CZABANOWSKA  is a professor of Public Health Leadership and Workforce Development and  Head of the Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health. Her research involves leadership development, leadership competencies for public health and health-related disciplines, capacity building in public health, including competency and training needs assessment, design of training programmes, competency-based education and systematic development of competency frameworks for public health and health workforce, public health workforce development and planning including professionalization.  She is a Past President of the Association of the Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), and a lead author of the WHO-ASPHER Competency Framework and the Road Map to Professionalizing the Public Health Workforce in the European Region. She is an academic Board Member of the Studio Europa at Maastricht University; visiting professor at the Institute of Public Health Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, adjunct professor at the Richard Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, US.