Principal investigator
Professor Leon Bijlmakers holds an MSc in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. He has worked in community-based health care in Burkina Faso in the mid-1980s, as a trainer-cum-researcher with WHO, UNICEF and the Community Medicine Department of the Medical School in Zimbabwe in the 1990s. Subsequently, as a freelance public health consultant in Vietnam, he was a consultant with ETC Foundation in his home country, The Netherlands, for over 14 years. In this capacity he trained health professionals in various countries in small-scale operational research and advised Governments, donor agencies and NGOs on health programme design and health sector support systems. Since 2012, Professor Bijlmakers has been teaching Global Health at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands and he has been involved in implementation research in maternal health (Rwanda, South Africa), surgery (Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania) and health sector priority setting through evidence-based deliberative processes (Indonesia, The Netherlands). Professor Bijlmakers is currently leading the SURG-Africa team at the Radboud University Medical Center.
Professor Leon Bijlmakers holds an MSc in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. He has worked in community-based health care in Burkina Faso in the mid-1980s, as a trainer-cum-researcher with WHO, UNICEF and the Community Medicine Department of the Medical School in Zimbabwe in the 1990s. Subsequently, as a freelance public health consultant in Vietnam, he was a consultant with ETC Foundation in his home country, The Netherlands, for over 14 years. In this capacity he trained health professionals in various countries in small-scale operational research and advised Governments, donor agencies and NGOs on health programme design and health sector support systems. Since 2012, Professor Bijlmakers has been teaching Global Health at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands and he has been involved in implementation research in maternal health (Rwanda, South Africa), surgery (Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania) and health sector priority setting through evidence-based deliberative processes (Indonesia, The Netherlands). Professor Bijlmakers is currently leading the SURG-Africa team at the Radboud University Medical Center.