Mario Fafangel
Slovenian epidemiologist
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Mario Fafangel Jr. /fa'fændʒel/[1] is a medical doctor who is Slovenia's head epidemiologist as head of the Communicable Diseases Centre at the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).[2] He earned an M.D. from the University of Trieste in 2007.[3] He resigned from Janez Janša's government's COVID-19 advisory group as chief epidemiologist because his evidence-based proposals were not listened to by political members of the group.[4]