Members & Expertise
In a multidisciplinary setting, the members of Groningen Centre for Health Law work on a variety of different topics related to international health law. Ranging from our key expertise in tobacco control and access to medicines and medicine regulation, to issues like reproductive health, vulnerability and migration, accountability, and climate change. See below an overview of the team including a brief overview of individual expertise areas and contact information.
| Faculty of Law | |
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| Prof. Brigit Toebes |
Professor, Health Law in a Global Context |
| Dr. Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt |
Assistant Professor in health law at the Faculty of Law and UMCG |
| Meaghan Beyer, LLM | PhD Candidate, project Noncommunicable Diseases and Healthy Diets |
| Michelle Bruijn, LLM PhD | Lecturer and researcher in the project novel smoke-free policies |
| Mr. drs. Thom Geertsema |
Dierenarts en docent/onderzoeker Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
| Marlies Hesselman, LLM | Lecturer and researcher, international law, climate, environment |
| Prof. Tokuko Munesue, PhD |
Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo; visiting professor at GHLG from August 2021- August 2022 |
| David Patterson, LLM, MSc | PhD Candidate and legal consultant, project climate change |
| Natalie Abrokwa, LLM | PhD candidate, project mental health |
| Dr Katerina Tsampi | Assistant Professor and Post-doc researcher, project novel smoke-free policies |
| Mr. Pepijn Tukker |
Lecturer IT Law with an interest in the effects and role of technology on (the right to) health |
| Dr. Heleen Weyers |
Assistant Professor Theory of Law, Regulation of medical behavior that potentially shortens life |
| Ratna Juwita, LLM, MH | PhD candidate, expertise in anti-corruption, health and human rights (supervisors: Brus and Hallo de Wolf) |
| Jamie Behrendt, LLM | PhD candidate in energy law, editor-in-chief GCHL Blog and Student Blog |
| Dominique Mollet, LLM | PhD candidate in oral child health (supervisors: Toebes and Manton); editor, GHLG Blog and Student Blog |
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PhD candidate, expertise in Health Impact Assessment and health in environmental assessment (supervisors: Vanclay and Toebes) |
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| Li (Sophia) Xi | Visiting PhD candidate, definition of 'informed consent' in health law, Hunan University, Changsa, China |
| UMCG | |
| Prof David Manton | Professor of Paediatric Dentistry, with a focus on Cariology - joint project on oral child health |
| Dr Regien Biesma | Associate Professor, Global maternal and child health; UMCG Global Health |
| Bureau | |
| Gema Ocana, LLM | PhD Candidate and Senior Advisor in EU research affairs |
| Last modified: | 09 February 2024 10.15 a.m. |