Policy making is about the future. Insights into what future developments we are facing, and which future we find desirable, are therefore essential to achieve a better society

 

Henk Hilderink studied Mathematics at Radboud University Nijmegen. He obtained his PhD in Demography at the University of Groningen with the thesis "World Population in Transition". He has been working at RIVM since 2014 and was project leader of the Public Health Foresight Study (VTV) 2018 and 2020. Before that, he worked for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NiDi) and the Department of Public Health at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focus is on integrated population and health scenarios. He participated in several national, European and global scenario studies, such as the Dutch Sustainability Outlook, OECD Environmental Outlook and the UNEP Global Environmental Outlook, where he contributed with the modelling of demography and population health. He is also coordinating the Burden of Disease (BoD) estimates for the Netherlands. He led the Knowledge translation Work Package in the EU European Union (European Union )-Burden project and was the acting chair of the WHO-Burden of Disease Network. Currently, he is RIVM’s principal expert on Public Health Foresight.  

Henk is president of the Public Health Foresight section of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), he is a member of the "Environmental Public Health" Commission of the German Federal Ministry of Health, member of ECDC’s Methodological Advisory Group (MAG) and member of committee “Public health monitoring and reporting” of the Robert Koch Institute. 

Expertise

• Foresight and scenario development
• Burden of disease
• Demography
• Health modelling

Contact

E-mail: info@rivm.nl