Hans V. Hogerzeil MD, PhD, FRCP

Hans V. Hogerzeil is Professor of Global Health at Groningen University (Netherlands). In Groningen every year about 100 students, many of which from outside the Netherlands, combine their medical undergraduate training with an additional profile on global health, on which they spend about a quarter of their studies, for three years. From 1978 till 1983 he was a mission doctor in India and Ghana and in 1985 he joined the WHO Action Programme on Essential Medicines. In that capacity he has advised over forty countries, including S-Africa, India and China, and recently Morocco, Ghana, Uganda and Iran, on the development of their national medicines policy.