Eddy van Doorslaer Appointed New KNAW Member

Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences are outstanding scientists and scholars and represent a wide spectrum of science. They are appointed for life. New members are nominated by peers, members and non-members of the Academy, and assessed by external referees. Membership is awarded on the basis of scientific and scholarly achievement. The membership of the KNAW is considered a great honor in the Netherlands.

About Eddy van Doorslaer

Eddy van Doorslaer holds a joint appointment as Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Erasmus Medical Centre and at the Department of Applied Economics of the Erasmus School of Economics. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation of the University of Technology (Sydney).

His main research interest is quantitative analysis of equity in health and health care. Van Doorslaer standardized  methods to measure inequality in health and access to health care. His research produced important insights for policy discussions to determine which part of the health care system is to be collectively financed.

Together with TI Fellow Professor Maarten Lindeboom of the Free University of Amsterdam, he currently coordinates a research theme on “Income, health and labor across the life cycle” as part of the Netspar Research Programme at the University of Tilburg. Since 2009, he leads a new EU-FP7 funded Programme on “Health Equity and Financial Protection in Asia” (HEFPA), with Adam Wagstaff (World Bank) and TI Fellow Owen O’Donnell (EUR-UoM). In the past, he directed a number of large international research projects on equity in health and health care funded by the EU (EQUITAP), the OECD (Equity in Access), and the EU (ECuity Project).