Bart Klijs

Background

About Bart Klijs

Bart obtained his Master of Human Movement Sciences at Maastricht University in 2005. Between 2005 and 2012 he worked at the department of Public Health of Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. First as a junior researcher and later as a PhD-candidate. During this period he obtained a Master in Public Health and in 2012 he successfully defended his dissertation on the impact of (population) aging on the burden of disease and disability. In the years following, he worked as a Postdoc researcher at UMCG, Groningen, where he continued his investigation of healthy aging, using data from the multigenerational LifeLines Cohort Study. In 2014 he was registered as 'Epidemioloog B'. Since 2016, Bart is employed at the National Statistical Office of the Netherlands (CBS) where he helped developing new methodology for measuring price- and volume changes of Medical Specialist Care. In addition, he investigated the quality of the National Causes of Death registration as a co-promotor. In 2020 he committed himself to further developing his skills as a projectleader and became active in the topic of technology (AI and online platforms). Bart is an experienced (health) researcher who is passionate about data-driven answers to substantive questions, large and complex datasets, and methodological challenges. His research findings are extensively reported, among others in (high-impact) international peer reviewed scientific journals.