Prof. Stephan Van Den Broucke, Co-chair

Stephan Van Den Broucke is professor of Health Psychology at the UC Louvain, Belgium. His research expertise includes public health psychology, health promotion, health literacy, patient education, accident prevention, and public health capacity building. He has supervised a broad range of national and international research projects, authored over 150 scientific publications, is an editorial board member of several scientific journals, and taught students and health professionals in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. He has served as an evaluator for research projects submitted to the EC and to research foundations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Israel, Hong Kong, Kuwait and Québec, Canada; participated in accreditation committees for training programs in the Netherlands and Switzerland; and gave policy advice to authoritative bodies on public health in Belgium, to the European Commission, to the World Health Organization (WHO), and to the Open Science Foundation. He is an elected Board member and current Vice-President for conferences of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE); a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Behavioral and Cultural Insights of WHO/Euro, of the Working Group on Social Research Methods and Advice of the European Food Safety Authority, and of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Asian Health Literacy Association; and president of the HealthNest consortium in Belgium.