Anja Schreijer is a medical specialist in infectious disease control who has worked for various national and international governments, WHO and ECDC. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she chaired the National Consultation on Infectious Disease Control, which was responsible for making scientifically sound agreements about the medical content for nationally uniform control of infectious diseases. In addition, she was a permanent member of the national outbreak management team that advises the Netherlands’ government on pandemic control. She has a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and she is a Member of the Advisory Committee on Public Health Emergencies (ACPHE) that is recently established by the European Commission. Doctor Schreijer is currently working as Medical Director of the Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center in Rotterdam, affiliated with the Erasmus Medical Center, were she is responsible for the public health research pillar.
