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MAARTEN VAN DER HEIJDEN profile

MAARTEN VAN DER HEIJDEN

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW, Global Health Centre
Spoken languages
English, Dutch, French

PROFILE:
 

Maarten van der Heijden is a health and pharmaceutical lawyer and social scientist. His research interests include access to medicines, the governance systems underpinning global health, the One Health approach, and the relationship between global health and humanitarian health.

He applies both legal and policy research and ethnographic research to elucidate political economic structures that operate across multiple scales, drawing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies. His doctoral research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine examines the creation of (im)possibilities and the processes of future-making in access to medicines.

Maarten has held positions at the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, Doctors Without Borders, and various other NGOs.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
 

  • van der Heijden MR. (2023) Attacks on hospitals: current legal protections are insufficient, The Lancet. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02632-6.
  • van der Heijden MR (2023) Defining access without excess: expanding appropriate use of antibiotics targeting multidrug-resistant organisms, The Lancet Microbe. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00256-2.
  • van der Heijden MR (2022) Protecting human health in a time of climate change: how Cochrane should respond, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. doi: 10.1002/14651858.ED000156.
  • van der Heijden MR (2020) Reimbursement models to tackle market failures for antimicrobials: Approaches taken in France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Health Policy. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.11.015.