Aura Timen (born 1966) is a Romanian medical doctor based in the Netherlands. She is head of the department of primary care and professor of primary and community care at

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Early years and education

Timen has a degree in medicine from

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, Romania (1991), but moved to the Netherlands in 1992 and had to requalify so also has a medical degree from

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(1995). She has a PhD from

in the Netherlands (2010), where her thesis was on "Outbreak management: towards a model for the next crisis".

Career

Radboud took up a post with the Netherlands' National Coordination Centre for Outbreak Management, (LCI, , part of RIVM, the

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment ( or simply RIVM) is a Dutch research institute that is an independent agency of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. RIVM performs tasks to promote public health and a safe li ...

), in 2000, and was its head from 2011 to 2022. There she led the country's response to the

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. Between 2017 and 2022 she led the

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's Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Preparedness and IHR monitoring and response. In 2022, on taking up her post at Radboud, she said "With the conviction that public health does not end where healthcare begins, I want to turn the lessons of the corona crisis into research questions for the better care of the future."

Recognition

In 2020, ''

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'' listed Timen as number 17 in its annual list of the 200 most influential people in the Netherlands.

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