Myrte Wassenaar
- Department
- Health Systems Strengthening
- Title
- Advisor
- m.wassenaar@kit.nl
Myrte Wassenaar is a junior advisor in the health systems strengthening team at KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
She is a medical doctor and researcher from the Netherlands who wishes to dedicate her knowledge and skills to strive towards equity and justice in health on a global scale. She has previously worked with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) on childhood immunization and malaria chemoprevention in Sierra Leone.
At KIT, Myrte is currently working on the development of a European Union-wide training programme for public health specialists in the field of emergency preparedness (the EPIC11-project for the European Health and Digital Executive Agency). She also uses her experience in statistical analysis of quantitative data for third-party monitoring and evaluation of national health services in Afghanistan
Publications
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Assessing the health workforce in Afghanistan: a situational analysis into the country’s capacity for Universal health coverage
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Research article
After decades of conflict and instability, the Afghan health workforce has critical shortages and challenges in equitable distribution. KIT researchers, in collaboration with WHO, conducted a national assessment investigating the number of health workers and their distribution across cadres, geographies, and gender.
- Year of publication
- April 2025
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