Professor of Pediatrics – Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
Reseach focus is on embryonic, fetal and childhood developmental processes that lead to health and diseases across the life course
Clinical Paediatrician and Principal Investigator of Pediatric Population Health Program at Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, which includes both the Generation R Study and the Generation R Next Study
Project coordinator of the Horizon2020 LifeCycle Project - EU Child Cohort Network, an international federated FAIR data resource that brings data and researchers together from 19 pregnancy/birth cohorts, comprising more than 250.000 participants, taking account for general data protection legislation (GDPR)
Initiator and academic lead Healthy Start Convergence Program, in which Erasmus University Medical Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Delft University of Technology work together with different stakeholders, such as policymakers from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, health insurance company representatives and parent-child organizations, to improve health and health care for new generations
