Maarten van der Heijden is a part-time doctoral researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Research Fellow at the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. His research looks at access to medicines, antimicrobial resistance, global health governance, the One Health approach, and the intersections of global and humanitarian health. Drawing on legal and policy analysis alongside ethnographic methods, Maarten investigates the structures that shape health policy and access to medicines across scales.

Alongside his academic work, Maarten is a lawyer and policy expert in global health. He has worked with the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health, Médecins Sans Frontières, and other NGOs, with whom he continues to collaborate and workin an advisory capacity.

Maarten holds a BA (Hons) in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Utrecht. During his undergraduate studies, he spent time at the University of California, Berkeley (Department of Rhetoric) and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also holds LLM degrees in Humanitarian Law (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and in Trade and Investment Law (University of Amsterdam).

Further information on Maarten is available on his institutional profile.

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