SECONDMENTS

ERICA IN TORONTO

Erica Barbazza

University of Toronto/CIHI, Toronto, Canada

January-April (?) 2020

As someone who has lived abroad for nearly a decade, the prospect of a secondment sending me home – back to my childhood house to live with my parents, with the possibility to reconnect with lifelong friends and rediscover the Canadian health services research landscape – was truly thrilling. 

BERNARDO IN DUNDEE

Bernardo Meza 

University of Dundee, Scotland

I started this winter my secondment at the University of Dundee, Scotland, which is one of the seats to the Scottish Care Information – Diabetes Collaboration (the national diabetes register, better known as SCI-DC, or SCI-Diabetes).

SOPHIE IN PISA

Sophie Wang

on secondment to MesLab at Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy

February 2020-…

From la dolce vita to casa dolce casa

“We might not be as famous as Britney (yet!) but we can confirm that indeed the cool thing about being a HealthPros Fellow is traveling… across seas, like to Canada and stuff.”

– Mircha Poldrugovac and Damir Ivankovic, 2019 (HealthPros fellows)

MIRCHA AND DAMIR IN CANADA

Canadian standoff is real!
Two HealthPros in Canada

For secondment video Mircha click here.

For secondment video Damir click here.

“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” (Britney Spears, American singer)

We might not be as famous as Britney (yet!) but we can confirm that indeed the cool thing about being a HealthPros Fellow is traveling… across seas, like to Canada and stuff. So, here we are, the two of us in Toronto, Canada for a semester as our first HealthPros secondment. “Two of us” are Mircha and Damir, HealthPros Fellows from the Amsterdam University Medical Centra (Amsterdam UMC) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

ERICA IN UTRECHT

Erica Barbazza

NIVEL, Utrecht, the Netherlands

October–December 2019

For secondment video click here.

Since the 1st October, I have extended my morning commute and now travel to the nearby city of Utrecht where I am based at NIVEL –the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research.

OSCAR IN AMSTERDAM

Óscar Brito Fernandes

Seconded at the Department of Public Health (Amsterdam University Medical Centers)

For secondment video click here.

Late July, I left gorgeous Budapest behind and my colleagues at the Department of Health Economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest. I spent my August in Portugal for a much-deserved Summer vacation. Time was too short to visit and do everything that I wanted, but my heart and soul were rejoicing. As of September 1^st, 2019, I am living in Amsterdam.

KENDALL IN ROME

Kendall Jamieson Gilmore

Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Region, Italy

September – December 2019

For the secondment video click here

It’s well known that when in Rome, one must do as the Romans do. As such, since I arrived I have been busy commissioning magnificent buildings exalting my name to all who dare approach, building aqueducts to feed public baths, slaughtering my rivals in gladiatorial combat, and participating in gigantic orgies. It’s all been very tiring.

ARMIN IN GERMANY

Armin Lucevic

Hamburger Newsletter

OptiMedis AG,
Germany

For secondment video click here.

Greetings from the promised land of many Central and Eastern Europeans!

Meal portions are big, beer is good and public transport is expensive (but there are almost no control checkups).