Researcher
Sjors van Gijzel
Sjors van Gijzel is a Researcher at the Access to Medicine Foundation. Sjors works in the unit that looks at company pipelines and other research and development activities across the essential healthcare companies the Foundation engages with. Sjors also provides ongoing support for external stakeholder engagement with up-to-date insights on pipeline projects and access planning.
Sjors holds a Master’s degree in Epidemiology from Utrecht University with a focus on infectious diseases and a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences from Radboud University with a minor in global health and infectious diseases. During his studies, Sjors researched a variety of topics looking at low- and middle-income countries, including possible differences in obstructive lung disease occurrence in people with and without HIV in South Africa.