Dr Lela Sturua

Dr Lela Sturua (MD PhD MPH), head of Non-Communicable Disease Department at the Georgian National Center of Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) holds more than 25 years of working experience in Public Health. Dr. Sturua obtained MD and PhD degrees from Tbilisi State Medical University and MPH from The Joseph H. and Belle Braun Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health & Community Medicine (Jerusalem, Israel). She has been working for the NCDC since 1999 and leading the NCD department since 2010, directing and supervising non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, reproductive health, mental health, aging, addiction, tobacco control, community health, social and health determinants and health promotion. Dr Sturua has served as principal investigator in several nationwide surveys and projects; she has been leading the tobacco control policy in Georgia.  

Dr Lela Sturua authored and co-authored over fifty publications. She regularly serves as an expert for the WHO and other international organizations. Lela Sturua has participated in numerous workshops, symposiums and conferences on public health. 

Currently she works as the full Professor of the Public Health Department at the Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy.