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ITM Colloquium8-10 November 2010

Antwerp

Fabienne Richard is registered midwife who specialised in tropical medicine and public health (MSc). She has 10 years experience as clinical midwife and a field experience of 5 years in developing countries (Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Liberia, Somalia, Sri Lanka). Her field of research is maternal health, access to health care and quality of care. She is a female genital mutilation (FGM) expert midwife and is involved in FGM research and clinical guidelines writing for the Ministry of Health in Belgium. She recently coordinated the writing of a monograph on financial barriers to obstetric care (see www.itg.be/shsop). She is involved in the new FP7-EU project FEM Health (2011-2013), assessing the impact of fee exemption on maternal health in West Africa and Morocco. She is currently doing a PhD on equitable access to quality C-section in Africa.

Fabienne Richard

FranceEmail: [email protected]

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GP by training, I have worked as a Public Health specialist for many years, first for “Medecins du Monde” in Afghanistan and Congo, then (from 2005 to 2008) for UNICEF in Niger; I provided support to the MoH for Health System Strengthening and emergency preparedness.

I also briefly worked in Belgium as a GP. At the Institute of Tropical Medicine, I have been working in the health policy and financing unit since 2008 where I try to improve the participation of experts from developing countries on the global health scene.

I’m interested in making pluralistic health systems achieve their overall goals. I’m particularly interested in ways for the health system to serve members of vulnerable groups and communities. I believe politicians and technicians have a role to play to improve the equity of the health system.”

David Hercot

BelgiumEmail: [email protected]

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Political scientist by training, I have been working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp since October 2007. I’m a member of the Health Policy and Financing unit, and focus on global health policy and financing, with a special interest in China. I’m currently involved in the weekly IHP newsletter and in the ITM Emerging voices essay competition.

Kristof Decoster


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An Appelmans graduated from Ghent University - Master German Philology in 1999. For 9 years she worked as an employee benefit consultant, advising IGOs, NGOs and large corporates about the design, funding and administration (MIS) of their medical plans (eg Oxfam, Unicef, NATO, Vodafone). In 2004-2005 she set up the company’s first subsidiary office in Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). As a Project Manager she was later responsible for the development of the HIV/AIDS approach in VBI’s local medical plans. For that project she resided in Nairobi, Kenya in 2006 as contractor of UNON. In 2007 she obtained a Vlerick Management degree. In 2008-2009 she travelled as a Business Development Manager for a consumer goods company in the Middle East (Lebanon, Israel, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan), Turkey and India. Last year she obtained a Master Public Health (Health Policy) from ITM. Currently she works there as a Policy Advisor - International Networking and meanwhile she is enrolled in the European Microfinance Programme at Solvay Business School. Her main interest goes to sustainable financial solutions towards universal health coverage beyond borders and by, with and for all people.

An Appelmans


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Bruno Marchal is a research fellow at the Health Care Management Unit, currently working mainly on strategic management of health care organisations and evaluation of complex issues in health. After graduating as a medical doctor and obtaining a Diploma in Tropical Medicine at the ITM, Bruno worked for 6 years in Nyamira District (Kenya) as a medical doctor and hospital director. He joined the Department of Public Health at the ITM in 2000 after obtaining a Master in Public Health. He held the position of tutor and later of coordinator of the MPH. Between 2002-05, he was a researcher in the IMMPACT project, focusing on capacity strengthening for research and evidence-based policy in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Indonesia. Since 2005, he is leading the work packages on Management and Human resource management of REACT, an FP6-INCO programme in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. He started research on the influence of (health workforce) management practices on performance of hospitals in Ghana and Tanzania in 2004 and is currently finalising a PhD dissertation on this subject. Bruno¹s current interests include complexity and theory-driven inquiry . He is involved in applying the theory-driven inquiry approach in the evaluation of Défi Jeunes and will work on this in the SICA project FemHealth starting from January 2011.

Bruno Marchal


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Josefien van Olmen, MD, MPH works as a Health Systems Scientist at the Department of Public Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. She has worked in East Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and the Netherlands, in clinical and in public health. Her areas of expertise are Health Systems Analysis & Strengthening, Organisation of Care for Chronic Diseases, Health Service Delivery, and Methodology for Evaluation of Complex Interventions. Her main present activities are the coordination of a network on Health Systems (www.strengtheninghealthsystems.be) and research on the quality and access to care for diabetes patients in Kinshasa. She is also involved in teaching and coaching of students in the MPH and short course on health policy. Recent publications: Van Olmen et al, 2010. Primary Health Care in the 21st century: primary care providers and people’s empowerment. TMIH, 14;4:386-90. Olmen van J et al, 2010. Analysing Health Systems to Make Them Stronger. Studies in Health Services Organisation & Policy Series, No 27. Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.

Josefien Van Olmen

The NetherlandsEmail: [email protected]

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Sara Van Belle


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My name is Scott Brown and I possess a Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree, and most recently, a Master of Governance & Public Policy (Public Health) degree from the University of Queensland, Australia. My interests, and thus research focus, centres around the analysis of governance practices from both government and non-government organisations and their effect on health related public policy – particularly in the international context. My recent Master’s thesis analysed the past and current governance practices of the World Bank, critiquing its use of coercive, hierarchical governance to induce state and economic reform, with offers of explanation for why it continues to use this mode of governance over its newly, rhetorically adopted development approach. I also have some experience and a high degree of interest in development aid coordination. I am a strong believer in the health systems strengthening (HSS) development concept that is now emerging once again as the dominant development philosophy. Subsequently, I am currently working on a project related to the Joint Funding Platform for HSS. I am interested in the potential implications of governance that the World Bank may bring to this partnership based on its track record of failed reform attempts.”

Scott Brown

AustraliaEmail:

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Luc Van Leemput studied social nursing and health sciences (policy and management). He has worked for 12 years with Médecins Sans Frontières in a variety of countries in Africa (Burundi, South Sudan, Guinée Conackry) and Asia (Cambodia, China) and as operational coordinator in MSF headquarters. Since April 2009, he is working in the Public Health Department of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. He is involved in research on Global Health Initiatives and coordinates a training module on humanitarian assistance in emergencies in the postgraduate course TMIH.

Luc Van Leemput


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Rasschaert Freya, MD, MPH, studied Medicine at the University of Leuven (1990-97) and Tropical Diseases at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (2000). She worked for several years (2000-2009) with Médecins Sans Frontières, both as a clinician and programme manager in different settings in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. In 2010, she obtained a Masters in Public Health – Disease Control at the Inistitute of Tropical Medecine in Antwerp. She currently joined the Public Health department at the Institute.”

Freya Rasschaert


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Sociologist by training, I started my professional career at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in February 2007. For two years I worked in the department of parasitology, where I assisted in the coordination of an international research network on leishmaniasis which was funded by the European Commission (FP6). In the frame of this network, I also took the lead in the development of a global online geo-referenced bibliographic tool on the epidemiology of leishmaniasis (see www.leishrisk.net) which was developed in close collaboration with the World Health Organisation. In January 2009 I took on a new position in the department of public health which I currently still hold. My core responsibilities are two-fold: coordinate the ITM’s strategic network on neglected tropical diseases; assist in qualitative research on the control of neglected tropical diseases. I have since been involved in research on perceptions and health seeking behaviour regarding human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a study on the social determinants of health related to neglected tropical diseases in Mexico. Currently I am preparing a multi-country study on the clinical management of neglected tropical diseases in the frame of a new FP7 project, NIDIAG.

David Hendrickx


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Ir Por

CambodiaEmail:

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RAOUL A BERMEJO III, MD, MPH obtained his medical degree in 2006 from the University of the Philippines in Manila. In 2010, he received his Master in Public Health from the Institute of tropical Medicine –Antwerp. He previously worked in the Philippines mainly in the reproductive health, maternal and child health, and nutrition programs at the provincial level. He has broader interests and experience in public health including health policy and financing. He is also an avid scuba diver and is passionate about gardening, politics and diplomacy, Filipino healing traditions, cultural preservation, and rice cakes. If you share any of his interests, you can email him at [email protected].

Raul III Bermejo

The PhilippinesEmail: [email protected]

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I am a Phd fellow in the Health Systems Research Unit (HSRU) at the South African Medical Research Council. I have been working in Public health as a researcher for about 8 years. My training is as follows; MPH (Health Economics), University of Cape Town, MSc (Economics) University of Sussex, and Phd candidate, University of Bergen. The main themes of my research are measuring inequality in child health outcomes, costing analysis of lay health workers in a community randomised controlled trials (the trials were aimed at improving neonatal and child health), experiences of lay health workers (LHW) in promoting exclusive infant feeding and missed opportunities in the prevention of mother to child transmission. I also have an interest in retention and attrition of LHW, systematic reviews and the use of qualitative research in health economics.

Lungiswa Nkonki

South-AfricaEmail: [email protected]

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Trained as a biochemist and microbiologist (University of Leuven, 1998), I started PhD research at the Institute of Tropical Medicine studying immunological mechanisms of resistance to HIV in a population of female sex workers in Côte d’Ivoire. To this end, I worked for several months at the field laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and also at the University of California-San Francisco in a collaboration on assay development. After obtaining my PhD (University of Antwerp, 2003), I continued postdoctoral research at the Institute of Tropical Medicine on projects related to HIV resistance and pathogenesis, now studying a cohort of HIV discordant and concordant couples in Dakar, Senegal. My research interests lie in expanding our basic understanding of HIV-protective immunity, a likely prerequisite for the successful development of future vaccines and therapies.

Wim Jennes


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I am a sociologist who graduated from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium in 1992. In 1999 I obtained my PhD degree at the K.U.Leuven. Shortly afterwards I started lecturing Sociology at the Lessius Hogeschool Antwerpen and I got a position at the K.U.Leuven Research Coordination Office to do research on ‘factors for success of PhD research’. I was involved in the quality assurance of PhD research, the development of the doctoral schools and topics as competence development and career perspectives of doctoral researchers. I was a member of the Coïmbra Doctoral Studies Task Force and participated in the EUA doctoral programmes project, 2003-2004 in the network on innovation. Since 2007 I am the Research Coordinator of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp with main responsibilities in research coordination, research policy, the PhD and postdoctoral programme.

Ann Verlinden


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