Current Position

2022-present
Director Department of Global Public Health and Professor of Public Health, Julius Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2019-present
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, United States

2020-present
Scientific Advisor France24 (national television channel)

Previous Positions

2018-2022
Director and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2018-2022
Director Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland

2015-2018
Deputy Science Director. Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Rotterdam

2015-2018
Cofounder and CEO of Erasmus Epidemiology Resources, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2012-2018
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Dept. of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2012-2018 
Principal Investigator of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Group. Dept. of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2012-2018
Founder and Director of ErasmusAGE, intergenerational research center focused on health and ageing. Dept. of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2009-2012
Clinical lecturer and Director MPhil. Dept. of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

2008-2009
Clinical registrar and assistant prof. Warwick University, Medical School, Coventry, UK.

2006-2008
Public Health epidemiologist. Unilever, Corporate Research, Sharnbrook, UK.

2002-2006
Scientific Researcher (PhD, Post-doctoral investigator). Dept. of Public Health, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2000-2002
General medicine in primary care. FOS-CAL, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

1999-2000
General physician Hospital Integrado San Juan de Dios de Barichara, Barichara, Colombia