Vincent De Brouwere, MD, DTM&H, MPH, PhD is Professor emeritus (since May 2018) of Public Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM). He has a field experience of 15 years in Developing Countries (7 years in ex-Zaire where he worked as leprosy program manager and district medical officer; then 5 + 3 years in Morocco first as WHO civil servant (P5), then as Research Director at the Institute of Research for Development, in support to the National School of Public Health-ENSP, Rabat) and worked in short term visits in a variety of countries in Africa (Benin, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo (DR), Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Zimbabwe), and Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Yemen). His main field of research is the health care system, with a particular focus on maternal health and access to health services (including quality of care and the management of human resources required for the good functioning of health systems). He developed his expertise in the domain of maternal mortality reduction partly through his research work and partly through the elaboration and evaluation exercise of reproductive health strategies in support to ministries of health in LMIC. As a lecturer he is involved in different training programs at the ITM, Nagasaki University, ISPH Casablanca and ENSP-Rabat (mainly in safe motherhood, basic concepts in public health and management & evaluation of health programs, elaboration of projects).

He is author/co-author of more than 140 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters, 48 research reports, papers and books or book chapters, 46 international consultations, 158 abstracts or presentations at workshops, and was PhD promoter of 14 PhD.