Senior researcher Communication in Healthcare
Activities
She works as a senior researcher at Nivel since 1998 and is project leader of the National Panel of people with Chronic Illness or Disability (2008-present) and the National Panel of people with Lung Diseases (2001 – present); she is an expert in the area of (determinants of) self-management, diversity and chronic illness and has extensive research experience in the area of psychosocial factors and their interaction with health behavior and health, including illness perceptions, patient activation, self-efficacy, social support and health literacy. Recently she started research on gender differences in treatment burden among chronic disease patients. Since 1998 she was involved in more than 50 research projects related to chronic disease, diversity, self-management, health literacy, social participation, multi-morbidity and person-centred care in the Netherlands. She is the (co-)author of over 70 international publications and over 100 Dutch articles and reports.
Publications
CV
2018: Cochrane reviews
2012: Project management
1998: Phd Utrecht University. Thesis: "Cognitive representations of health and illness"
1995: Public Health - Netherlands School of Public Health
1993: Behavioural therapist – NVGT
1990: Health Sciences, University Maastricht, direction Mental Health
1985: Gymnasium, Van der Puttlyceum Eindhoven
Member of the steering committee of Selfmanagement Europe, an expertise centre on self-management
Advisory board member of the Centre of Empowering People and Communities (CEMPAC)
Member of the steering committee of the Dutch Health Literacy Alliance
Member of the research school CaRe (member of the PhD education committee of CaRe)
Member of Women INC
Member of Sociaal Wetenschappelijk onderzoek Nierziekten (SWON)
Member of European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Member of Nederlandse Vereniging Gender en Gezondheid (NVGG)
Member of International workgroup non-communnicable disease
Member of Scientific Committee of the Dutch Lung Foundation