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Jeroen Vanoirbeek - Master Global Health
Jeroen Vanoirbeek
Jeroen Vanoirbeek is an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care in the Centre of Environment and Health at KU Leuven. He has two main research interests: 1) occupational and environmental hygiene and toxicology, with a focus on exposure assessment and biomonitoring; and 2) experimental lung immune-toxicology, in which the sensitizing capacity of chemicals is investigated. He is Programme Director of Continuing Education in Occupational Hygiene and teaches occupational hygiene and occupational health effects.
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Guido Van Hal - Master Global Health
Guido Van Hal
Guido Van Hal is a Professor (50%) and Research Leader (50%) at the Research Group on ‘Social Epidemiology and Health Policy’ in the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at UAntwerp. His expertise includes substance use and misuse in different groups, such as minors, students, elderly people, arrestees and sex workers, cancer screening (breast, colorectal, lung and cervical cancer) and health promotion. He has co-authored over 100 A1 publications.
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Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden - Master Global Health
Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden
Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden is coordinating the Global Health Institute at UAntwerp since October 2009. He worked for over a decade as a clinician and a manager in several humanitarian and disease control projects in Low & Middle Income Countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, with WHO and Médecins Sans Frontières. His academic career started at the Institute for Tropical Medicine (Antwerp), where he was involved in malaria and HIV research and teaching activities. His main expertise lies in biostatistical support, designing and implementing (clinical) epidemiological study designs and conducting clinical trials (Phase 1-2-3). (Development of) molecular tools are incorporated in the majority of his studies. Apart from Malaria related research (main expertise), he has set up research lines on NCDs, cancer diagnosis & treatment, vaccine development, Covid-19 etc. with colleagues with complementary expertise.
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Steven Van Garsse - Master Global Health
Steven Van Garsse
Steven Van Garsse obtained his PhD from UAntwerp on the topic of concessions. He is a renowned expert on public procurement law and public–private partnerships (PPPs). For almost 10 years he headed the Flemish Government’s PPP centre and was involved in most major PPP projects in Flanders/Belgium. At present he is Vice-Chair of the UNECE Team of Specialists on PPP and president of several dispute resolution/arbitration boards. He is an Associate Professor at UHasselt, teaching administrative law and public law. At UAntwerp he lectures on government contracts. He is a member of the Brussels Bar, Equator Advocaten.
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Roy Remmen - Master Global Health
Roy Remmen
Roy Remmen is a Professor of General Practice at the University of Antwerp and Hasselt. He is a keen teacher of clinical medicine and responsible for the master programme of general practice. His main research interests are on the best ways to deliver primary care, continuity of care and medical education research. He has over 30 years of experience in a rural practice near the border between Belgium and the Netherlands and is a member of a number of international networks.
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Peter Pype - Master Global Health
Peter Pype
Peter Pype is associate professor in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at UGent. His work, both in research and teaching, focuses on interprofessional collaboration. He received a Doctor’s degree in Health Sciences from UGent in 2014 on ‘Workplace learning for general practitioners in palliative care: suitable and feasible?’. He is currently still working as a general practitioner in a group practice.
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Gorik Ooms - Master Global Health
Gorik Ooms
Gorik Ooms is a human rights lawyer and a global health scholar, Professor of Global Health Law & Governance at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Adjunct Professor at the Law Faculty of Georgetown University, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of UGent. Between 1990 and 2008 he worked with Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium in different positions, and as Executive Director from August 2004 until June 2008. He was a member of the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health and is a member of the Lancet-O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and the Law.
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Geert Molenberghs - Master Global Health
Geert Molenberghs
Geert Molenberghs is Professor of Biostatistics at UHasselt and KU Leuven. He has held visiting positions at the Harvard School of Public Health and is the founding Director of the Centre for Statistics at UHasselt and currently the Director of the Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), a joint initiative between UHasselt and KU Leuven. He has taught over 100 short and longer courses on the topic in both universities and industry in Europe, North America, Latin America and Australia.
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Kristien Michielsen - Master Global Health
Kristien Michielsen
Kristien Michielsen is Professor in Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. She works at the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (Ghent University, Belgium). Being trained in social and political sciences, Kristien has been doing multidisciplinary research in the field of sexual and reproductive health since 2006, mainly focusing on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. She obtained her PhD in Social Health Sciences in November 2012 on the topic of adolescent sexual health (HIV prevention). Her main research topics are comprehensive sexuality education, structural determinants of health, including gender norms, and complex evaluations. Kristien has research experience in several countries including Belgium, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Ecuador. She is a member of the board of Sensoa, the Flemish expertise centre for sexual health and of the European Expert Group on Sexuality Education. She is also an independent consultant in Global Health research. More details on het work and publications can be found on her ORCID profile.
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Jeroen Luyten - Master Global Health
Jeroen Luyten
Jeroen Luyten is an associate professor of health economics and the head of the Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy. He teaches courses on health economics, economic evaluation and ethics in the MSc in Global Health, the Master in Healthcare Management and Policy, the Master in Nursing and Midwifery and the Master of Bioethics. His research focuses on resource allocation and priority-setting in healthcare, using methods of economic evaluation and multiple-criteria decision analysis and on pharmaceutical economics and policy. Before joining KU Leuven, he worked as a post-doc fellow in health economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, obtained a PhD in health economics at the University of Antwerp and obtained master degrees in economics (University of Antwerp and Université Toulouse 1) and philosophy (KU Leuven).
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