Biography

Steven van de Vijver (1977) is working as a family doctor and Medical Information Officer (MIO) at the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In addition he works as a Senior Advisor at the Amsterdam Health & Technology Institute he is guiding several innovative projects in the field of digital health and primary care like HealthEmove.
In the past he worked for Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development and received his PhD during his three year stay at the African Population and Health Research Center on the design, implementation and evaluation of cardiovascular prevention for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya.
Currently his specific interest as a medical doctor and researcher is to increase universal health coverage through digital health. In what way can digital innovations diminish instead of increase the existing growing inequality in health. One of the examples is an Electronic Patient Health Records for refugees, migrants and other people on the move.
In addition as a writer he published several books and more than 40 scientific articles
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