Health Policy Institute

Health Policy Institute
Country	Slovakia
Website	http://www.hpi.sk
Networks	Think Tank, Stockholm Network
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Public Health,
Last revision	11.12.2014

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Organizational Structure and Funding

People

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Katarína Skybová, project manager

• Tomáš Szalay, executive director

• Karol Morvay, senior analyst

• Roman Mužik, senior analyst

• Peter Pažitný, director

• Mária Pourová, senior analyst

• Angelika Szalayová, senior analyst

• Silvia Hnilicová, senior analyst

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.