Mario Fafangel Jr. /fa'fændʒel/ is a medical doctor who is Slovenia's head epidemiologist as head of the Communicable Diseases Centre at the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).Spoznajte kolumniste N1 – Mario Fafangel, N1 United Media, 15 June 2021 He earned an M.D. from the University of Trieste in 2007. He resigned from Janez Janša's government's COVID-19 advisory group as chief epidemiologist because his evidence-based proposals were not listened to by political members of the group.Slovenia's chief epidemiologist quits Covid-19 advisory team, Slovenian Press Agency, 7 December 2020.
Awards He was awarded the Name of the Year 2020 award by major Slovenian newspaper Delo.Epidemiologist Fafangel Delo's person of the year, Slovenian Press Agency, 7 January 2021.
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