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Tom van der Grinten

Tom E.D. van der Grinten, PhD, is Professor of Health Policy and Organization in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Tom van der Grinten studied economics and sociology at the University of Amsterdam. For five years he was a research fellow in the Department of Social Psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He subsequently worked for the Dutch Sickness Funds Council. Between 1978 and 1993 he was appointed as Director of the Netherlands Institute for Mental Health in Utrecht.

He obtained his PhD with a historical study of the policy-making processes in Dutch mental health care. His current research is focused on the institutional context and process aspects of health care reforms, with special attention to the meaning of public-private dependencies for the efforts of policy makers, health care managers and other stakeholders to improve the system. The development and application of new administrative and managerial concepts like demand management, social entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships are studied in detail in the Dutch health care context.

He is the author of many articles and contributions to books on these subjects. 

Tom van der Grinten participate(d) in the editorial board of different scientific journals and he is and was a member of national and international bodies for research, development and policymaking in the field of public health and health care. Among other things he is a member of the statuary Council for Public Health & Health Care (Raad voor de Volksgezondheid & Zorg) and the Scientific Health Council (Gezondheidsraad). He has been president of the European Health Management Association (EHMA) and was chairman of the scientific advisory committee of this Association. He also was a member of the Dutch State Commission on Choices in Health Care (Dunning Committee).