Donata Meroni is the Head of the Unit ‘Health Monitoring and Cooperation, Health Networks’ within the Public Health Directorate of DG SANTE, European Commission. Her role involves overseeing activities on cross-border healthcare Directive, on rare diseases, and the European Reference Networks for rare and complex diseases.
Previously, she led the unit focused on ‘Health promotion, disease prevention, and funding instruments’ in the same Directorate. From 2017 to 2021, she was the Head of the ‘Health and Food Safety’ Unit at the Executive Agency for Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food (CHAFEA) in Luxembourg. She has been with the European Commission since 2002, beginning her tenure at DG SANCO, starting her career at the Commission at the Food and Veterinary Office in Ireland
