Dr. Lieve Fransen is a senior social and health policy advisor with a range of different institutions, businesses and think thanks. She is medical doctor specialized in global public health and social policies worldwide. She has a PhD in social policies at the university of Antwerp, Belgium.
Dr. Fransen has considerable and recognized experience in development and sustainability policies in European and global institutions. She worked extensively on formulating evidence-based policies on social investment and innovation, pensions, education, health and healthcare and gender, HIV and population.
She worked as a medical doctor and in international public health in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. She was also Public Health Advisor to the Ministry of Health in Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, India and the Cape Verde Islands and has created several new initiatives such as the Global Fund for aids, malaria and TB and was a founding Board member and the vice chair of the Board of the same organization. She was also the director for Social Policy and the European strategy for 2020 and the European semester in the European Commission until May 2015.
Dr. Fransen has received a wide range of awards and recognitions for her lifetime work, is member of several boards worldwide and has many academic and policy publications.
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