prof. dr. S.A. (Menno) Reijneveld
Menno (S.A.) REIJNEVELD, MD PhD, is full professor of Community and Occupational Medicine, head of the department of Health Sciences, and chairman of the cluster Prevention, Public Health & Primary Care of the UMC Groningen. His research focusses on prevention, and on promotion of participation in case of health problems in community settings. Much of his work has a focus on deprived groups.
Menno Reijneveld obtained his medical degree at the University of Utrecht. Next, he worked at the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service, where he was trained as Community Physician and as Epidemiologist (both registered), and did his PhD-research on urban public health (PhD in 1995 at the University of Amsterdam, awarded the 1996 national Public Health prize). After obtaining his PhD, he worked at both the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service and Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, and initiated a community-based collaborative centre. He then moved to TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, where he worked as senior researcher, trainer and head. In that role, he led the initiation of the Dutch national monitors on Youth health and Public health. In 2004, he started as professor and head of UMCG-Health Sciences.
Menno Reijneveld leads the NWA consortium Healthy Early Life Start (HEALS) Applied and the academic collaborative center Jeugd3Noord/C4Youth (www.c4youth.nl). He is also involved in several other national and international projects. Further, he was one of the initiators of the research master Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology, and has about 90 completed PhD projects from the UMCG to date as supervisor; these PhDs and his publications can be found elsewhere on this website.
Related official positions
Menno Reijneveld is a member of various other national and international committees and organisations in the field of public health and social medicine, including ZonMw. He was also the initiator and leader of the project on shortages of social medicine and primary care doctors, and chair of the follow-up project ‘More Extramural Doctors’ under the aegis of UMCNL and KNMG. In addition, he served as president of the Dutch Society for Epidemiology and chair of the national Educational Committee on Community Medicine. Finally, he co-authored the Health Council of the Netherlands’ report *Research that Makes You Better* (2016), which focuses on reorienting research at Dutch university medical centres.