Expertise

My full and updated CV is available on request.

Demographics

Date and place of birth: 22 November, 1958; Amsterdam
Citizenship: Netherlands
Married

Professional education

University of Amsterdam: Medical Doctor, 1988
Erasmus University Rotterdam: PhD, 1998 (Institute for Public Health, Prof. Dr. J.P. Mackenbach). 
For a copy of my PhD, see Publications page

Summary professional profile

Medical doctor and epidemiologist with more than 15 years experience in international public health, medical humanitarian emergencies, and HIV, tuberculosis and malaria; extensive management experience; research skills, PhD in Medicine.
  • HIV prevention, treatment, care and support interventions, especially for key populations at risk (sex workers, drug users, prison populations).
  • Tuberculosis interventions (including TB/HIV, DOTS, infection control, MDR-TB).
  • Malaria interventions (ITNs, ACT).
  • Humanitarian medical emergency interventions (feeding centres, infectious disease control, basic health care, refugee/IDP care, psychosocial health).    

  • Environmental health.
  • Access to essential medicines.
  • Research skills: design, planning, data management, (statistical) analysis, (scientific) writing.
  • Management skills: leading a middle sized organization.
  • Resource mobilisation.
  • Advocacy.
  • Group facilitation skills.
  • Clinical medicine (internal medicine).
  • Language skills: Dutch (native), English, German, French, Russian.

Country experience

Extensive: Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova
Some: Liberia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Estonia, Belarus, Georgia, Portugal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda.

previous positions held

Executive Director



Health Advisor


Head of Mission/Medical Coordinator

Operational Research Coordinator Epidemologist



Programme officer Economic Policy and Health


Research fellow


House officer internal medicine

House officer internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonary diseases

Project co-ordinator Export of medicines from the  European Commu­nity to Third World countries

General Coordinator
AIDS Foundation East-West, Moscow, Russian Federation; Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Médecins sans Frontières, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Médecins sans Frontières, Kiev, Ukraine

Aral Sea Area Programme / tuberculosis programme, Médecins sans Frontières, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Stichting Wemos, Amsterdam



Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Public Health

Prinsengracht Hospital, Amsterdam

St. Lucas Hospital, Amsterdam


Stichting Wemos, Amsterdam



Stichting Wemos, Amsterdam
2005 – 2012



2002-2005


2000-2002


1998-2000




1997-1998



1991-1997


1994-1995

1989-1990


1988-1989




1983-1985