Professor Charmaine Gauci is the Superintendent of Public Health and Director General for Public Health within the Ministry for Health and Active Ageing in Malta, with wide responsibility for public health to safeguard and enhance the health status of the people. She had previously occupied the position of Director of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate for nine years.

She graduated as a medical doctor in 1991. Over the years, she has developed skills in the wide aspect of the public health speciality. She pursued her studies with an MSc in public health and consequently followed the European Programme in Epidemiological Training. She attained her PhD Degree in epidemiology in 2006. Dr Gauci is also a Prince practitioner in project management. She is a fellow of the UK Royal Society for Public Health and a fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health.

Professor Gauci is a professor at the University of Malta and delivers lectures in public health with a special interest in Public Health, Epidemiology, Communicable Diseases, Health Promotion and Policy development. She is an advocate for public health, having served as secretary, vice president and President of the Malta Association of Public Health Medicine for four years.

Professor Gauci acts as a focal point for a number of bodies within the European Commission, including ECDC and Health Security, and for the World Health Organisation.

Profs Gauci has led the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in her capacity of SPH. On Republic Day, 13th December 2020, the President, on behalf of the government and people of Malta, paid her public tribute for distinguishing herself in the work on the pandemic and appointed her in the grade of officer to The National Order of Merit. This is the state order of the Republic of Malta.

Her aim is to protect, support and improve people’s health and wellbeing.