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Wendy Janssens is Professor in Development Economics. She is affiliated as senior economist with the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), and research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. Previously, she held visiting positions at the Institute of Fiscal Studies in London, and the World Bank Development Economics Research group in Washington, DC.
She has received numerous research grants, including a DFID-ESRC grant to study social norms and violence against women and girls in Pakistan, an NWO-Wotro grant to study family planning, HIV/AIDS and women’s empowerment in Mozambique, and an NWO-VENI grant to study the interaction between health insurance and microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, she is leading amongst others an interdisciplinary research programme on mobile technology and universal health coverage for mothers and children in Kenya.
She has extensive experience in designing and coordinating multi-disciplinary research programmes to provide rigorous and locally grounded policy advice to national and international organisations as well as governments (such as Oxfam Novib, PharmAccess Foundation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank).
Behavioral, experimental and micro-econometric analyses of (i) access to health care and health insurance, (ii) global mental health, (iii) sexual and reproductive health (iv) intra-household decision-making, polygamy, and domestic violence.
VU Minor in Health Care and Health Management (BSc): Global Health Economics
VU Economics (BSc): Thesis supervision
VU Economics (MSc): Research project; Policy seminar; Thesis supervision
Tinbergen Institute (MPhil): Development Economics
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Development Economics, PhD, Vrije Universiteit - Tinbergen Institute
Award Date: 23 May 2007
Business Economics, Master, Maastricht University
Award Date: 30 Jun 1998
Culture, Psychology and Psychiatry, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
Medical Anthropology on Sexual and Reproductive Health / HIV , Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Working paper › Professional
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Working paper › Professional
Wendy Janssens (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Professional
Wendy Janssens (Member)
Activity: Membership › Societal
Wendy Janssens (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Other event › Societal
Wendy Janssens (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Wendy Janssens (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 7 Feb 2019
Prize › Academic
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), M. Groot Bruinderink (Recipient) & K. Morsink (Recipient), 1 Jan 2015
Prize › Academic
24/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
24/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
29/04/19 → 3/05/19
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
3/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Janssens, W. (Creator), Kramer, B. (Creator), van der List, M. (Contributor) & Pap, D. (Data Manager), DataverseNL, 18 Nov 2019
DOI: doi:10.34894/AXFRPB
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Janssens, W. (Creator), Barr, A. (Contributor), Dekker, M. (Contributor), Kebede, B. (Contributor) & Kramer, B. N. (Contributor), openICPSR, 2 Apr 2019
DOI: DOI: 10.1257/app.20170438, https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/113730/version/V1/view
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