Board

Fleur de Meijer

Chair of the WHIG since 2023.

She is a GP and worked for two years in South Africa and eight years in Kenya as head of the GP training programme.
She was also a member of staff at the Aga Khan University’s central education body in Nairobi, where she conducted research into education in communication and community-oriented primary care.
She has been working as a street doctor at the Pauluskerk and as a locum GP in Amsterdam South East since 2023.

Sylvia Mennink

Spring Symposium & DIGH/NHG

Sylvia is a GP and used to work as a tropical medicine specialist in Curaçao and Sierra Leone.
She was active in LOVAH (the Education Working Group).
She has been a member of the WHIG since 2009, has always been involved in the spring symposium, and is a member of the NHG’s Diversity & Global Health (DIGH) working group.
She is a lecturer on the GP training programme at Amsterdam UMC-VUmc and the course coordinator for the ‘Diversity’ module.

Eline Dekker

WHIG Spring Symposium

As a medical student, Eline was active in the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations; during her GP training, she was chair of the European Cooperation Working Group (WES); and she has now been a co-organiser of the spring symposium for a number of years.
Eline works as a GP in Harmelen.

Maarten Dekker

NVTG Portfolio

Maarten worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Zambia and Ethiopia. He works on a locum basis in various medical practices and asylum seeker centres. On behalf of the WHIG, he acts as the liaison with the Dutch Society for Tropical Medicine (NVTG) and will take over the organisation of the annual training day for AIGT from Rob Sijbers.

Maria Andrea Willemsen

Secretary of the WHIG since 2024

Maria is an acting GP in Amsterdam and works, amongst other things, as a GP in asylum seeker centres. Before becoming a GP, she worked as a doctor in Panama and Suriname.

Klaartje Olde Loohuis

Science Portfolio
AIGT re-registration

Klaartje is a tropical medicine specialist and GP, and currently lives with her family in Côte d’Ivoire, where her work includes conducting scientific research into risk prediction and ‘respectful maternity care’ for women with hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in Ghana. https://spotstudyghana.com.

Peter van den Hombergh

Vice-chairman Peter Manschot Fund
Webmaster
External projects

Tropical medicine doctor in Kenya, 1980–84. General practitioner in Almere and H’sum until 2001. Worked at the NHG; policy adviser at the LHV and the AMC GP training programme.
Currently a consultant in Family Medicine and Primary Care.

Wim Heres

External projects
PM Fund Board

A tropical medicine specialist in Malawi, now a GP in Helmond.

Anne Karine Wilbrink

Treasurer

Anne Karine works as a permanent GP at a practice in Amsterdam East and also works regularly at the Kruispost (a practice for homeless people and undocumented migrants)
After studying medicine, she completed a tropical medicine course and then worked for an NGO in Nepal.
Anne Karine has been involved with the WHIG since 2023.

Steven van de Vijver

Board member

Steven is both a tropical medicine specialist and a general practitioner. He has worked in places such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spent three years conducting research into cardiovascular disease in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

Maarten Borg

President WHIG Traveller Advice Working Group and
Regional Assessment Consultation (RATO)

Maarten is a GP and helps organise the annual symposium. As chair of the travel advice working group, he is committed to its development.
As well as his job, he is studying for a part-time degree in International Health at KIT.

Cees Sluimer

LCR & the Broad-Based Working Group on Passenger Advice

Cees has worked as a tropical medicine specialist in Tanzania and Lesotho. He now runs a GP practice in Deventer and provides travel health advice.
On behalf of the WHIG, he is a member of the Broad Working Group of the LCR. He is also a member of the local scientific committee for the NECTM8 (Northern European Congress on Travel Medicine) in Rotterdam (to be held in 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic)