Giselle Sarganas, MD, MScIH, PhD, as a medical doctor and Master of Science in International Health (MScIH), received her doctorate in pharmacoepidemiology from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She is responsible for the topic Pharmacoepidemiology in the Unit Physical Health of Department for Epidemiology and Health Monitoring at the Robert Koch Institute. Her work includes monitoring of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and medicine use at population level taking the sociodemographic dimensions of age, gender and social inequalities into perspective. Her work on NCDs extends at European level to the Joint Action Prevent NCD, a project to support strategies and policies to reduce the burden of cancer and NCDs, tackling social inequalities by addressing the root causes of NCD risk factors and adopting a life-course approach.