Dr. Henri van Asten

Affiliated staff member

Dr. Henri van Asten (1949) is a MD public health specialist, holder of a MPH from Johns Hopkin's Bloomberg School of Public Health, specialized in disease control and medical education, with extensive field experience in Africa and Asia. Within the WHO AIDS program he worked as teamleader in the National AIDS Control Programme in Tanzania, and as HIV/AIDS advisor in the Ministry of Higher Education in Mozambique.

Based within the Nijmegen Institute for International Health, he developed and lead various capacity building programmes in higher education in Tanzania, Vietnam and Mozambique, and is and associated member of NICHE.

He is editor of the scientific journal Tropical Medicine and International Health.