Thomas van der Akker
Professor of Global Maternal Health at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Erasmus MC
Thomas van den Akker works as Professor of Global Maternal Health at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and as Head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Erasmus MC. He previously worked in Malawi for four years as a physician specialized in international health and tropical medicine. He also worked for Médecins Sans Frontières for a number of years.
Van den Akker studied Medicine at Leiden University. In 2012, he obtained his PhD with his thesis “Medical mirrors: maternal care in a Malawian district” at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since then he has been involved as a researcher and (co)promotor in reproductive health care projects in many different countries, especially in southern Africa.
Thomas is also Chair of the Foetomaternal Medicine Section of the Dutch Society for Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Within the supervisory board, his main area of focus is global health.
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