“The Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb) provides the link between practice, policy and research in infectious disease control in the Netherlands’.”

Prof. Roel Coutinho (b. 1946) studied medicine in Amsterdam. His early career included a period working in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. On his return to the Netherlands, he opted to specialize in medical microbiology and in 1977 became head of the Amsterdam Public Health Department, where he pioneered cohort studies into HIV and Aids. He earned a PhD in 1984. In 1989 he was appointed Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease Control at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

In 2000, Prof. Coutinho was appointed Director of the Amsterdam Municipal Health Services, and in 2005 he became director of RIVM's Centre for Disease Control. Roel Coutinho has written or co-authored over five hundred scientific articles and is editor of the journal AIDS. He lives together with Marjolein and has two children and three grandchildren.

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