Aura Timen (born 1966) is a Romanian medical doctor based in the Netherlands. She is head of the department of primary care and professor of primary and community care at Radboud University Nijmegen.[1][2][3]
Early years and education
editTimen has a degree in medicine from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1991), but moved to the Netherlands in 1992 and had to requalify so also has a medical degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1995).[3] She has a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands (2010), where her thesis was on "Outbreak management: towards a model for the next crisis".[4]
Career
editRadboud took up a post with the Netherlands' National Coordination Centre for Outbreak Management, (LCI, Landelijke Coördinatie Infectieziektebestrijding, part of RIVM, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), in 2000, and was its head from 2011 to 2022.[3] There she led the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.[5][6]
Between 2017 and 2022 she led the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Preparedness and IHR monitoring and response.[1]
In 2022, on taking up her post at Radboud, she said "With the conviction that public health does not end where healthcare begins, I want to turn the lessons of the corona crisis into research questions for the better care of the future."[1]
Recognition
editIn 2020, de Volkskrant listed Timen as number 17 in its annual list of the 200 most influential people in the Netherlands.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Aura Timen appointed professor of Primary and Community Care". www.ru.nl. Radboud University. 14 April 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ Simons, Annemiek (14 April 2020). ""The coronavirus is here to stay."". VU Magazine. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ a b c "Europass Curriculum Vitae: Timen Aura" (PDF). European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ "RU Library catalogue record for Timen's thesis". Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ "Aura Timen to Radboudumc". www.rivm.nl. RIVM. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ ""I have been teaching about infectious diseases for over 20 years, but never before have I included lockdown in my lectures"". magazines.rivm.nl. RIVM. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ Dekker, Wilco; van Raaij, Ben. "Dit zijn de invloedrijkste Nederlanders van 2020" [These are the most influential Dutch people of 2020]. Volkskrant Kijk Verder (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 April 2023.
Further reading
edit- Dumitra, Gindrovel (20 April 2017). ""Medicul și pacientul dețin împreună cheia succesului"" ["The doctor and the patient together hold the key to success"]. Medic.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2 April 2023. Interview with Timen
External links
edit- Official website
- Aura Timen publications indexed by Google Scholar
