EWUU Preventive Health conference 2024
EWUU Preventive Health conference 2024

Speakers

 

We are excited to announce the list of speakers (in alphabetical order) who will be joining us for the Preventive Health conference 2024. 

 

 Wouter Boon is Professor of Innovation and Transition Studies. His research focuses on the dynamics and governance of emerging technologies and their contribution to societal transitions, such as more sustainable healthcare and mobility. He looks at the demand-side of innovation systems, specifically at responsible scaling, the role of users in innovation, and demand-side innovation policy. Innovation areas addressed include: pharmaceutical innovation, preventive health, orphan drugs and rare diseases, 3D printing, regenerative medicine, smart mobility, medical technology, digital health, carsharing 

Paul Iske is professor of Open Innovation & Business Venturing at Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics. Here he is mainly concerned with service innovation and social innovation, with a specialty in Combinatoric Innovation. It is his mission to make organizations smarter, more innovative and more enterprising. As founder of the Institute for Brilliant Failures, he aims to foster understanding of the complexity of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Martine van der Mast is the i4PH’s programme director. With over 20 years of international experience at the business side of the Infant and Clinical market and with a scientific background in nutrition, she exactly knows how to stimulate transdisciplinary research.  
Simone Ritzer leads the Wageningen Dialogues programme at WUR and guides you through the day as the moderator of this conference. As a true connector between science and society, she offers the stage to plural perspectives – always with an open attitude, a listening ear, and an eye for both speakers and the audience.
Roel Vermeulen is the Scientific Director of the i4PH. He is a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Analysis and the Director of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS). He holds an adjunct professor position at the Julius Centre, UMC Utrecht, and a guest professorship at Imperial College London. 
Bram Wouterse is an associate professor in health economics at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. His research focuses on the modeling of health and health care costs over the lifecycle, the fiscal sustainability of health care spending, prevention, and socioeconomic inequalities in health. He actively contributes to the debate on the costs and benefits of public health policies in the media and in journals like Medisch Contact and ESB. He was part of the working group advising on how the costs and benefits of prevention can be better included in the Dutch policy debate and coauthored studies on the societal effects of a sugar tax for the European Commission and the Ministry of Finance. He is the chair of the Dutch Health Economics Association (VGE)