Stephan van den Broucke

Stephan van den Broucke is Associate Professor at the Department of International Health, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

He teaches in the Bachelor and Master programs of European Public Health in Maastricht and the Master program in Psychology at the KU Leuven, Belgium, and has been a guest lecturer at various universities and institutes in Europe.

Formerly a senior expert at the Flemish Institute for Health Promotion in Brussels and a project officer at the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers of the European Commission in Luxembourg, he has coordinated and supervised a series of national and international research projects in the areas of health promotion planning and evaluation, mental health promotion, health inequalities, capacity building and health literacy.

He serves as an expert adviser to the European Commission’s Health and Research Directorate Generals and as a technical adviser for the World Health Organisation, and is a member of the executive team of the Regional Committee for Europe of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE).

Stephan Van den Broucke holds a Ph.D. in Psychology (KU Leuven) and a degree in Complementary Studies in Health Policy (University of Antwerp), and is author or co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed international publications and author and editor of several books.

His main research focus is on program and project management, evaluation, quality assurance and capacity building in public health and health promotion, with a specific focus on European public health.