Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis is WHO Special Envoy for the European region, the former European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, a heart surgeon, a co-signatory to the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

The Commissioner for Health and Food Safety is the member of the European Commission. The current Commissioner is Stella Kyriakides. The portfolio is responsible for matters of public health, food safety, animal health and plant health.