Marlies J Visser Editor

Cees J. Hamelink is an Athena Professor of Globalisation, Public health and Human rights at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is Emeritus Professor Communication Science of the University of Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor Theology and Communication of the VU Amsterdam. He published 21 academic monographs and his most recent book (2023) is on Communication and Human Rights with Polity Press.

Dirk R. Essink is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, focusing on health systems and transdisciplinarity. His research, concentrated in Vietnam, Lao PDR, Ethiopia, and South Sudan, explores the integration of knowledge for public health policy and transformations. Dirk's work emphasises social justice, covering quality of care in humanitarian settings, infectious disease control and sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, and research agenda setting. He is skilled in transdisciplinary, mixed methods research.

Marlies J. Visser is a researcher and lecturer at the Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is an experienced qualitative researcher and in that capacity has coordinated and contributed to various research projects addressing social determinants of health and access to health care, with a particular emphasis on stigma and discrimination in relation to both physical and mental health conditions, and sexual and reproductive health.