

The foundation 'Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research' (Nivel), is an independent research institute. It has a Supervisory Board. Nivel's internal organisation structure includes management and staff. Take a look at our organisational chart and learn more about the interacting units of Nivel.
At Nivel there are about a hundred scientists involved in conducting research in all kinds of aspects of Dutch healthcare. In addition, there are about sixty professionals working in research-related and supporting functions. Take a look at our organisational chart and see how Nivel is organised.
Nivel is a foundation. It consists of several units:
About Nivel’s organisational units:
The external Supervisory Board (formaly the Board of Governors) supervises the way in which Nivel's Executive Board runs the institute. The Supervisory Board consist of five (external) members:
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Advisor ZonMw, national funding organisation for healthcare research, The Netherlands |
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Chairman DIVOSA, an association for municipal executives in the social domain, The Netherlands |
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Board Member of the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Professor 'Internal medicine, specialized in Geriatric Medicine’, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
Nivel’s Executive Board consists of a CEO and a COO/CFO.
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Prof. C. (Cordula) Wagner, PhD CEO, project coordinator Patient Safety |
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P.J.J. Baarendse, PhD COO/CFO; head of General Affairs and its operational units |
Nivel’ features three Research Units. Each research unit is led by a Head of Research Unit.
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Prof. J.D. (Judith) de Jong, PhD Head of research unit Organisation and Management in Healthcare |
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G.J. (Jeroen) Hasselaar, PhD Head of research unit Primary Care |
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Prof. J.J.D.J.M. (Jany) Rademakers, PhD Head of research unit Healthcare from the Perspective of Patients, Clients and Citizens; project coordinator Health Literacy and Patiënt Participation |
Nivel's Scientific Staff consists of all members of the Executive Board (mentioned above), the Heads of Research Units (mentioned above) and all Program Coordinators and Program Managers of our various scientific research programs:
In Nivel’s three research units (dark green), a total of 14 research programs are running continuously (light green). In each of these programs there is a heterogeneous team of scientist conducting research, each team in their specific field of competence:
At Nivel there are a lot professionals engaged in facilitating and disseminating all Nivels research in an efficient, scientific an appealing way. This is being done in serveral units:
To ensure that the profesional organisation of Nivel runs smoothly, within General Affairs (dark blue) a number of Nivel professionals is active in several Operational Units (light blue), such as:
The head of General Affairs is also engaged as COO/CFO in het executive board of Nivel.