Annemarie terVeen BSN MSc PhD
- Royal Tropical Institute
- Royal Tropical Institute
- Mauritskade 63
- Amsterdam
- 1092 AD
- T: +31 20 56 88 386
After completing an undergraduate degree in Nursing in the USA, I worked in the Dutch health system and for MSF for several years. I completed an MSc (PHDC) and a PhD at LSHTM. After completing my PhD I spent 2 1/2 years in Afghanistan, where I organised and taught the "Afghan Public Health Course" to senior MoPH staff through an EC-funded project for LSHTM. I have done consultancies for Save the Children, Merlin, MSF, GRM, WVI, Epos and WHO.
In November 2010 I started a job with the Education section of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam, teaching and co-organising one of their MSc programmes. As an Honorary Lecturer at LSHTM I will continue to teach on several modules, and help develop the Conflict & Health Distance Learning module. The research I am involved in at KIT will also involve collaborations with LSHTM.
My main interests lie in the control of malaria and infectious diseases and health systems strengthening, especially in fragile states. In the longer term I would like to explore how historical experiences with malaria eradication in the United States and Europe can inform malaria elimination policy today; I would also like to explore novel ways through which governments and agencies in fragile states can be empowered to develop and implement their own health research strategies.
Affiliation
- Department of Global Health and Development
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
- Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Teaching
I am currently the module organizer for the DL module "Introduction to Public Health and Control of Infectious Diseases" taught through the Infectious Diseases Distance Learning MSc programme.
I previously worked as the Distance Learning Tutor Coordinator for the MSc Public Health/Health Services Management. Additionally, I have been involved in organising, facilitating and teaching a wide variety of teaching modules and short courses, both as taught courses and through Distance Learning.
Research
The title of my PhD thesis was "The determinants of malaria transmission in the US between 1900 and 1945". The research focused on the association between climate, climate cycles, economic cycles and epidemic cycles of malaria in the US. I will be continuing some of this work with the support of Mercedes Pascual's group at the University of Michigan.
I am completing a qualitative case study on financing for reproductive health in humanitarian settings in Afghanistan.
A few research projects Daniel Chandramohan and I were involved in in Afghanistan through a DelPHE programme to support Kabul Medical University include
- an RCT on vitamin D supplementation and Pneumonia in infants
- Quality of record-keeping in Malalai Maternity Hospital (supported by U of Aberdeen, U of Birmingham, WHO Afghanistan, MoPH Afghanistan)
- The role the Afghan Parliamentarians perceive they have in health services provision in Afghanistan (Johns Hopkins University)
Research areas
- Conflict
- Health systems
- Public health
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- History
Disease and Health Conditions
- Infectious disease
- Malaria
Regions
- Europe & Central Asia (developing only)
- Least developed countries: UN classification
- Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Burkina Faso
- Congo, Dem. Rep.
- India
- Liberia
- Netherlands
- Pakistan
Other interests
- Climate
- Conflict affected populations
- Developing countries
- Distance Learning
- Health In Fragile Countries
- Infectious Diseases
- MARCH
- Malaria Centre
- Post Conflict Reconstruction
- capacity building
- development
