Dr. Judith van de Kamp is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor Global Health Education at the Department of Global Public Health and Bioethics at UMC Utrecht. She is a senior lecturer (STQ) and the coordinator of various global health courses at UMC Utrecht and University College Utrecht. Her mission is to help strengthen the global workforce for health by empowering health workers to tackle today’s complex (global) health challenges. Her educational innovations center around interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, international Community-Engaged Learning (i-CEL), Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), and transformative learning.
With ethnographic research conducted in Ghana, Cameroon and The Netherlands, Judith teaches on past and present global engagement in healthcare linked to power dynamics, white saviorism, and health equity and justice. She is passionate about building equitable institutional educational curricula that allow for students to grow an intercultural and open mindset to tackle complex health challenges, both ‘at home’ and abroad. She is author of the Dutch book ‘De derde wereld op je cv’ (The third world on your resume) for Dutch adolescents with an interest in working in low- and middle income countries.