Jan de Maeseneer

Chair European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health, and Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Belgium

Jan De Maeseneer, is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Belgium, and Chair of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health. He worked from 1978 until 2017 as a family physician in the inter-professional Community Health Center in a deprived and multicultural area in Ghent, Belgium. He has been Head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Ghent University from 1991 until 2017. He was a founding member of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) and served EFPC in various capacities for many years. He is a member of the Board of Primafamed, a network focusing on capacity building for human resources for primary health care in Africa. His main interests are access to health care; primary care; quality of care; human resources for health care; financing mechanisms.