Standing committee

The Health Council considers the standing committee to be an important instrument for monitoring the quality of the advisory reports. The standing committee reviews methodology, consistency, comprehensibility and line of argument and assesses whether the questions of the person seeking advice are adequately answered. In addition, the standing committee considers the coherence with previous Health Council advisory reports, alignment with relevant scientific developments and the expected societal impact of the advisory reports.

In principle, the standing committee meets monthly. The members participate in meetings without burden or consultation, and fill in a declaration of interests. The standing committee has two chairs, who take turns chairing the meeting. The chairs of the standing committee are also part of the presidium committee.

Advisory reports that specifically deal with health effects caused by hazardous substances are assessed in writing by the assessment panel for Health and Hazardous Substances, consisting of experts in the field of toxicology.

Members

• Prof. J. Oosterlaan, Professor and Director of Aftercare and follow-up programme Woman-Child Centre, Emma Kinderziekenhuis Amsterdam UMC; Professor of Paediatric Neuropsychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, chair
• Dr S. van de Vathorst, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, chair
• Dr E.M.M. Adang, Associate Professor in Health Economics, Radboudumc, Nijmegen
• Prof. A.J. van der Beek, Professor of Occupational Epidemiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and head of the Department of Public & Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC
• Prof. B.C. van Beers, Professor of Law, Ethics and Biotechnology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Prof. H.F.L. Garretsen, Professor of Healthcare Policy, Tilburg University
• Prof. S.E. Geerlings, Internist-infectiologist, Amsterdam UMC, Professor of Internal Medicine, specialising in quality of care, University of Amsterdam
• Prof. E. Kampman, Professor of Nutrition and disease, Wageningen University and Research Centre
• Prof. F.J. van Lenthe, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
• Prof. M.E.T.C. van den Muijsenbergh, Emeritus Professor of Health inequalities and Person-centred Primary care, Department of Primary care medicine, Radboudumc, Nijmegen
• Prof. K. Postema, Professor of Rehabilitation medicine, UMC Groningen

• Prof. A.M.J. Ragas, Professor of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Department of Environmental Sciences, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES), Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (FNWI), Radboud University, Nijmegen

• Prof. S. Roeser, Professor of Ethics, TU Delft
• Prof. D. Ruwaard, Professor of Healthcare and Public health, Universiteit Maastricht
• Prof. J.M.G.A. Schols, Professor of Geriatrics, Maastricht University
• Prof. L. Schoonhoven, Professor of Nursing Science, UMC Utrecht 
• Prof. C.A. Uyl-de Groot, hoogleraar health technology assessment, Erasmus MC Rotterdam
• Prof. Th.J.M. Verheij, Emeritus Professor of Family medicine, UMC Utrecht
• Prof. C. Wagner, Professor of Patient safety, NIVEL Utrecht
• Prof. H. Wertheim, Professor of Clinical microbiology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen

Scientific secretaries:

• D.N. Leunisse LLM, Health Council, The Hague
• Dr D. Levie, Health Council, The Hague
• Dr P.A.J. Luijsterburg, Health Council, The Hague