Aura_Timen

Aura Timen

Aura Timen

Netherlands-based Romanian medical doctor

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]

Timen in 2020

Early years and education

Timen 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

Radboud took up a post with the Netherlands' National Coordination Centre for Outbreak Management, (LCI, Landelijke Coördinatie Infectieziektebestrijding [nl], 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

In 2020, de Volkskrant listed Timen as number 17 in its annual list of the 200 most influential people in the Netherlands.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Aura Timen appointed professor of Primary and Community Care". www.ru.nl. Radboud University. 14 April 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  2. [2]
    Simons, Annemiek (14 April 2020). ""The coronavirus is here to stay."". VU Magazine. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Europass Curriculum Vitae: Timen Aura" (PDF). European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  4. [4]
    "RU Library catalogue record for Timen's thesis". Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Aura Timen to Radboudumc". www.rivm.nl. RIVM. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  6. [6]
    ""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.
  7. [7]
    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.

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