Are you a journalist and would you like to be kept informed about recent developments?

You can subscribe to our RSS feeds. You will then be automatically notified of our website updates (Dutch only).

Press Officers

Journalist can request information through the Press Office. Please contact:

Questions about COVID-19, infectious disease control

Harald Wychgel
+31 30 274 3005
Email: harald.wychgel@rivm.nl
Available every weekday except Monday

Geert Westerhuis 
030 - 274 2507
Email: geert.westerhuis@rivm.nl
Available every weekday except Friday

General question about COVID-19

Coen Berends
+31 30 - 274 4791
Email: coen.berends@rivm.nl
Available every weekday except Friday

Questions about COVID-19, vaccinations

Roul Velleman
088 689 5541
Email: roul.velleman@rivm.nl
Available every weekday except Friday

Leon Veldt
088 689 5971
Email: leon.veldt@rivm.nl
Available every weekday except Wednesday

Health and Healthcare (including COVID-19 Behavioural Unit)

Jan Brouwer de Koning
+31 30 274 4049
Email: jan.brouwer.de.koning@rivm.nl
Available every weekday except Wednesday

Infectious disease control (with exception of  COVID-19), Health and Healthcare

Martijn van der Wind
030 - 274 2131
Email: martijn.van.der.wind@rivm.nl
Available every weekday

Environment and Safety

Ronald Kooren
+31 30 - 274 3993
Email: ronald.kooren@rivm.nl
Available every weekday

You can also contact the secretariat of the Communication department, call +31 (0)30 274 2840 or email persvoorlichting@rivm.nl

Availability outside office hours

To contact a Press Officer outside office hours, please call +31 (0)30 274 9111.

Filming and photography

If you wish to film or take photographs on RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment premises, you must obtain prior permission through one of the Press Officers.