Vivian Barnekow is serving as Technical Officer in the child and adolescent health and development programme of the WHO Regional Office for Europe. She taught in a comprehensive (primary and lower secondary) school in Den- mark for a number of years, during which she was also working as an adviser on health promotion and lifestyle education at the regional level. After she obtained a master’s degree in health education she started working for WHO. She is responsible for the Technical Secretariat for the European Network of Health Promoting Schools. The Technical Secretariat supports countries throughout Europe in developing capacity and policies for sustainable programmes for health promotion.
