Mariska van der Zee
Mariska van der Zee is a researcher at the Access to Medicine Foundation working on the Access to Medicine Index. Mariska holds a Master’s degree in the Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. She also holds a Bachelor of Science (Cum Laude) degree from Leiden University College in the Netherlands, with a major in Global Public Health and a minor in Policy Science. For her Master’s thesis, Mariska conducted a health system’s analysis in Manila and Occidental Mindoro, to research the possibility of integrating novel malaria diagnostic techniques into the Philippines’ malaria surveillance system.
Before joining the Foundation, Mariska supported the Entomology and Vector control unit of the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Programme in Geneva, Switzerland. Mariska’s focus was insecticide resistance in relation to impregnated bednets.