PharmAccess
Roelinde Bakker has diverse work experience in various roles and sectors. Roelinde is currently the Head of SafeCare Quality Expansion at PharmAccess Foundation, where they focus on building a locally owned and institutionalized approach towards quality in collaboration with partners in Asia and Africa. Before that, they worked as a Business Development Manager Child Health at TNO, where they investigated expertise areas and innovations to improve children's health and quality of life. Roelinde also served as a Senior Project Manager and Consultant at Gemeente Utrecht, managing practical versions to support general practitioners' care for youth and working as a consultant at the Social Support Department. In addition, Roelinde has held roles in innovation, project management, and program management at Zilveren Kruis, Achmea, and Agis Zorgverzekeringen, where they have contributed to the development and implementation of projects and programs to improve healthcare quality and access. Roelinde began their career as a Staff Executive at GGD Zuid Limburg, responsible for strategic policy development.
Roelinde Bakker obtained a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Health Sciences from Maastricht University, where they studied from 1999 to 2003. Roelinde has also acquired additional certifications in areas such as FORTH innovation facilitation, Financial Management, LEAN (LCS level 1a), PRINCE II, and The Performance of the Manager. However, the specific months and years of when they obtained these certifications are not provided.
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PharmAccess
PharmAccess is an international NGO that believes in doing healthcare better. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, we work to improve healthcare markets so they deliver for all so people can access better care, live healthier lives, and reach their full potential. With headquarters in Amsterdam and most of its staff based in four country offices across Africa, PharmAccess is an international NGO with a history of reimagining what is possible. We challenge the notion that exclusion from healthcare is an inevitable consequence of living in poorer countries and identify the opportunities and partners – both private and public, needed to bring about transformation. This means mobilizing private and public resources, measuring and improving quality of services, and reaching even the most excluded people with financing options to pay for care. This approach was instilled by our founder Dr Joep Lange, a world leading aids researcher who went against the status quo in 2001 when he proved that working with the private sector could play a critical role in delivering life-saving antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa. PharmAccess has since evolved to embrace other opportunities for inclusive healthcare, with a particular focus on what the digital revolution can deliver. PharmAccess aims to be an innovator and catalyst for practical changes that can be scaled up. Initiatives such as SafeCare equip healthcare providers with clinical standards for quality improvement that investors and patients can trust. The Medical Credit Fund drives more money into the system - it offers loans to clinics to stimulate growth and encourage new ways of financing healthcare. We use mobile health platforms to develop a new model to make healthcare work for everyone. PharmAccess believes that better functioning healthcare markets are key to advancing a number of the Sustainable Development Goal’s, in particular the targets relating to the realization of Universal Health Coverage.