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Lieve Fransen | |
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| Director for Social Policies and strategy 2020 for growth and competitiveness at DG Employment and Social affairs of the European Commission | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 17, 1950 Gent, Belgium |
| Spouse(s) | Noah Howard |
| Residence | Brussels, Belgium |
| Alma mater | University of Antwerp, Belgium Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium Ghent University, Belgium |
| Website | ec DG Communication Website |
Lieve Fransen is a senior adviser to the European Policy Centre on health, social and migration policies, having been since 2011 the social policies director in the Directorate for Employment and Social affairs for the European Commission. Before that she was director for representations in the EC's communication directorate for more than 500 networks across the European Union.
She started her career as a physician in Africa during the 1970s and 1980s (mainly in Mozambique,[1] Kenya[2] and Rwanda), with a particular interest in sexually transmitted infections. In several African countries she developed new initiatives and ensured implementation through international cooperation and strategic planning.[1] In 1987, the European Commission hired Fransen as a consultant from the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp to survey blood transfusion and HIV seropositive rates in Uganda.[3][4] This led the European Commission in 1987 to help Uganda set up a safe blood supply,[4] and then to create the AIDS Task Force,[4] an international foundation of which Fransen was the founding executive director.[2][4][4] In 2000, giving evidence to the UK House of Commons International Development Committee, Jeff O' Malley, the founding director of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, referred to Fransen as "the EC's HIV/AIDS expert".[5]
In 1993 she joined the European Commission as the Head of the Health, AIDS and Population Sector.[4] Glenys Kinnock MEP noted that, following Fransen's appointment to the EC in 1987, spending on the EC's Health, HIV/AIDS and population programmes "had increased from 1 per cent of EC aid in 1986 to more than 8 per cent in 1998".[5] Fransen was in charge of negotiating tiered pricing for pharmaceutical products for developing countries; by 2002, however, she saw the debate on tiered pricing as becoming too difficult and too legalistic, and believed that more needed to be done to ensure access to medicines at cheaper prices in developing countries than in the West.[6] During this period, she was also guest editor for the World Bank's policy research department. In 2001 she became head of the social and human development unit at the EC's Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development, in charge of social protection, employment, health, education and gender.
She was a founding board member and board vice-chair of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM),[7] representing the European Commission and several EU member states from 2000 to 2007,[2] where she helped create a large public/private partnership and performance-based fund, achieving $8 billion in pledges over four years.[citation needed]
She has written more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and numerous policy documents for the European Council and the European Parliament. She holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp in social policies and public health.
Recognition
She was awarded Senegal's National Order of the Lion (1999) for special merit in the fight against HIV/AIDS and she received the Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights (2001).[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cliff, Julie; Walt, Gill; Nhatave, Isabel (2004). "What's in a Name? Policy Transfer in Mozambique: DOTS for Tuberculosis and Syndromic Management for Sexually Transmitted Infections". Journal of Public Health Policy. 25 (1): 46. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Piot, Peter (2012). No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 112–113, 173, 319. ISBN 9780393084115. Retrieved 16 July 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ Schneider, William H. (2013). The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ohio University Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780821444535. Retrieved 16 July 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Winsbury, Rex, ed. (1995). Safe Blood in Developing Countries - the Lessons from Uganda (PDF). Brussels, Belgium: European Commission. pp. 34–35, 60–61. Retrieved 16 July 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 International Development - Third Report. London, England: House of Commons. 2001. pp. §4, para 241-242. Retrieved 18 July 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ Cronin, David (10 July 2002). "EU accused of lacking commitment to Third World's battle against AIDS". Politico. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ↑ Clark, Jocalyn (26 August 2006). "HIV programmes in poor countries lack health workers". British Medical Journal. 333 (7565): 412. doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7565.412-d. PMID 16931835. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ↑ Dungus, Abubakar (19 November 2001). "UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Wins Jonathan Mann Award for AIDS Work". UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
External links
- Europe Direct Networks Annual Report 2009
- Annual Report of the Europe Direct Information Centres 2008
- The European Union: A Strategic Approach, Article on Sexual Violence, Forced Migration Review, Issue 27, 01/2007
- Collaboration between the European Commission and the World Bank, Press Release, 21/04/2006
- Commission gets increasing role in the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, Press Release, 28/03/2006
- Towards a future and some hope, Article, Global Future, Second Quarter 2004
- Confronting AIDS: public priorities in a global epidemic, A World Bank Policy Research Report, 1999
- The Economic Impact of Adult Mortality on Households in Rakai District, Uganda Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds.). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World." Brussels: European Commission, 1998
- The Impact of AIDS on the Economy of Families in Côte d’Ivoire: Changes in Consumption Among AIDS-affected Households, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds.). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission, 1998
- Expenditures on AIDS in Côte d'Ivoire, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission, Chapter 12B, 1998
- Expenditures on AIDS in Tanzania, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission, Chapter 12E, 1998
- Expenditures on AIDS in Thailand, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission. (Chapter 12F), 1998
- Cost-effectiveness of improved treatment services for sexually transmitted diseases in preventing HIV-1 infection in Mwanza Region, Tanzania, Article, The Lancet, Volume 350, Issue 9094, Pages 1805 - 1809, 20/12/1997
- AIDS : The Commission presents the current situation of its programme, Press Release, 28/02/1991
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