Sjors van Gijzel

Sjors van Gijzel is a Researcher at the Access to Medicine Foundation, working in the Research and Development Unit within the Access to Medicine Index team. His research for the Index on R&D and database development also feeds into other research programmes.

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.