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President of the Institute for Patients’ Rights and Health Education, Chairman of the Council of Patients’ Organisations at the Minister of Health.

Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Humanisation and Sexology of the Medical College of the University of Zielona Góra. Since 2022. Chairman of the Council of Patients’ Organisations to the Minister of Health, in addition, he is a member of the Council of the Medical Research Agency, the Council of Experts to the Ombudsman for Patients’ Rights, the Health Expert Commission to the Ombudsman and the Working Group on Patients’ Needs to the Medical Research Agency. He completed his studies in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw and then in sociology at the University of Szczecin. He obtained the title of Doctor of Social Sciences in the field of pedagogy in 2012 by defending his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Pedagogy, Sociology and Health Sciences at the University of Zielona Góra.

He has served as Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Health for AIDS and Drug Addiction and Vice-Chairman of the Social Council to the Prime Minister. From 2007 to 2017, he was the Provincial Minister of the Order of Serving the Sick – Camillian Fathers in Poland. He is a co-author of strategic documents concerning the state policy on HIV/AIDS and other civilisation diseases. He is active in raising public awareness of patients’ rights and has undertaken many initiatives to unite and educate the patient organisation community. In this regard, he is the originator and organiser of the Patients’ Organisations Leaders Forum, which is held annually as part of the World Day of the Sick. He is guided by the principle of seeking those values that lead to uniting communities rather than dividing them. In his public activities, he promotes the idea of responsible tolerance and counteracting xenophobia.

In his scientific work, he is involved in the development of health education, health promotion and humanisation of medicine. Honoured with numerous awards and distinctions, including the Award of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, and the medal „Meritorious for Polish Social Policy”.