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Prof. P.P. (Peter) Groenewegen, MSc, PhD

Prof. P.P. (Peter) Groenewegen, MSc, PhD

Prof. P.P. (Peter) Groenewegen, MSc, PhD

Managing director

P.O.Box 1568
3500 BN Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (0)30 - 27 29 700

E-mail: 
p [dot] groenewegen [at] nivel [dot] nl

Research



Prof. Groenewegen is NIVEL’s director. To read more about NIVEL as an organization, click here.

Prof. Groenewegen carries out management tasks, as well as research into European health care systems, the role of health care insurers and into health care professionals.

 
Health Care research in the Netherlands is inextricably interwoven with research of European or even global scope. NIVEL research in all different research domains and research programs makes use of the lessons learned from joint international research or from NIVEL’s own research about other countries. International research is useful for the main “stakeholders”, such as the ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. NIVEL has a wide international reputation, particularly in the field of primary care, where NIVEL is a WHO collaborating centre. However, also in other research areas NIVEL’s expertise is widely acknowledged.
Research with an international perspective is conducted most efficiently by expanding networks of international contacts and by drawing up joint research projects. In the short run, NIVEL will continue the current successful activities: the international benchmarking studies in primary care in a broad sense, development and evaluation projects in Central and East Europe and Central Asia, partly as WHO Collaborating Centre, and, setting the agenda in Europe for health services research. The international web site has an important function in this matter.
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Publications

CV

Current position
  • Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research NIVEL, director (from 1-1-2009).
  • Utrecht University, part-time professor within the Department of Sociology and the Department of Human Geography, special chair: social and geographical aspects of health and health care (from 1991).
 
Research Areas
  • International comparative studies,
  • Health policy and health care organisation,
  • Health and environment
  • General practice,
  • Manpower planning,
  • Sociology of the professions
  • Research utilization, societal impact of research
 
Education
  • sociology (sociological theory and methodology) at Utrecht University, graduated in 1976
  • Ph.D. thesis on the geographical distribution of general practitioners (defended at Utrecht University in 1985)
 
Teaching
  • Undergraduate:
  • Effective organisations (bachelor programme sociology UU)
  • Application of geographical research in spatial policy (research masters programme geography UU)
 
Graduate:
  • Health services: research and practice (research schools CaRe and Nihes)
  • International comparison of health care systems (research schools CaRe and Nihes)
 
International:
Health in context: multilevel modelling in public health and health services research (international course twice yearly on demand, together with Alastair Leyland; courses in 2011 and 2012: Escuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa; Helmholz Zentrum Munich; Berlin School of Public Health; NIVEL.
 
Memberships
  • Health Council of the Netherlands, permanent committee on public health (from 2007) and permanent committee on health research (from 2011)
  • Several committees of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
  • European Forum for Primary Care (member of Executive Committee)
  • Vereniging Volksgezondheid en Wetenschap (Society for Public Health and Science)
  • Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging (Dutch Sociological Association)
  • Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (Royal Netherlands Geographical Society)
  • Editorial board BMC Health Services Research
  • Editorial board Quality in Primary Care
  • Editorial Board Journal of Health Services Research and Policy