prof. dr. S.A. (Menno) Reijneveld

Menno (S.A.) REIJNEVELD, MD PhD, is full professor 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 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 workshop 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 supervised >80 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 chairman of the Interuniversity Society on Social Medicine and of the  Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Center on Child Health. Moreover, he chairs the NFU/KNMG-Task force on More physician specialists in public health and primary care, and is member of various other national and international bodies in the domain of Public Health and Community Medicine. He is past president of the Netherlands Epidemiological Society, and past chairman of the national Educational Committee on Community Medicine. Further, he added to the advisory report Research that makes you better of the Dutch Health Council, aiming at re-orientation of the research of the Dutch university medical centres. Moreover, he is advisor of TNO Quality of Life, Leiden, the Netherlands.