Speakers:Dr Elisabeth van Gennip

Topic: Smoking in films: European efforts raised by ENSP

Dr. Elisabeth van Gennip has a PhD in Biology from Leiden University.

Since 1988 she has been active in the health care sector in applied research and latterly in research management. Her own research areas include costs and effects of health information systems and quality of health care organisations.

Dr van Gennip was project leader of both major national and European projects. One of her projects was the development of an accreditation system for hospitals. This project resulted in the establishment of the Netherlands Institute for Accreditation of Hospitals (NIAZ) in 1998.

She was director of NIAZ from 1998 until 2002. In 2002 Dr van Gennip developed a new national organisation for the accreditation of bachelor and master studies (NVAO).

From 1st February 2006 she has been the chairman of STIVORO, - for a smoke free future. STIVORO is the national centre of expertise for tobacco control in the Netherlands.

In November 2006 Dr van Gennip raised the issue of smoking in films in the European Network for Smoking Prevention (ENSP), which resulted in the ENSP statement of May 2007.