The Team

Responsibilities

Clive Needle is responsible for strategic advice and direction of the network, and accountable to the Board for overall office performance. He devised and leads the special project Equity Channel, and advises the EC co-funded project DETERMINE. He edits network publications and advises all core activities.

Clive joined EuroHealthNet as strategic advisor in 2000 following his consultative report and recommendations on network progress. Since then he has helped to lead development and policy initiatives, including successive EC co-funded projects on health inequalities, social inclusion and capacity building for health promotion. During this time he has represented the network as a founding member of the EU Health Policy Forum and at numerous international events, including as Chair of the EC Mental Health Consultative Platform and at EU Presidency events in several states.

Clive is also an independent public policy advisor to several not for profit organisations. He has worked at many events with the World Health Organisation, academic and civil society bodies, as a speaker, advisor, chair and facilitator. He has written and presented extensively on EU and public policy issues, for specialist and general media.

Background

Prior to his work with EuroHealthNet Clive worked in business management, voluntary organisations and on political campaigns. He was an elected Member of the European Parliament 1994-99, working particularly on health and development issues, including authorship of the 1999 Report on the Future of EU Public Health. Clive lives in England with his wife Eileen King and family.

Responsibilities

Karen Vandeweghe joined EuroHealthNet in January 2011. Karen will support EuroHealthNet in the implementation of the strategic development plan 2010-2014. She is responsible for the core membership services and the capacity building activities of the network (study visits, networking events, training days). She is the contact point for questions related to the network. She also supports the development of new projects and funding opportunities for the network, general network and promotion activities, and other management needs.  

Background

Karen has experience in the areas of communications, networking and advocacy. She gained experience in social and health policies, having worked as information and parliament officer for AGE – the European Older People’s Platform. She has experience in structural funds and regional development, having worked as communications manager for the INTERACT programme (EU-funded programme of territorial cooperation) in Bratislava, Slovakia. She also worked for the Belgian public sector, in particular for the Ministry of Interior, Foreigners' Department. She first studied Germanic philology at the university of Ghent (Belgium), and then specialized in European policies, public administration and public management at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), the University of Aalborg (Denmark), the University of Leuven (Belgium), the Deutsche Hochschule fur Verwaltungswissenschaften in Speyer (Germany) and the Solvay Management School in Brussels (Belgium). She did several traineeships at European and international level, such as for UNESCO and the European Parliament.

Responsibilities

Stecy’s role is to develop and coordinate the Equity Channel project and specifically its EU policy dialogues. This includes effective liaison between EuroHealthNet and the International Collaboration on the Social Determinants of Health to deliver high quality engagement and advocacy with and between relevant stakeholders, potential partners and policy makers to help to achieve sustainable progress in actions to tackle the social determinants of health.

Background

Stecy Yghemonos joined the EuroHealthNet office in August 2009. His background includes wide experience in the areas of project coordination, policy dialogue and communications. Stecy’s previous positions gave him the opportunity to be active in a variety of international advocacy projects focusing on issues such as press freedom, social justice, children’s rights and of course health.

Responsibilities

Ariane Moret joined the EuroHealthNet office as a Communications Coordinator in January 2011. She will be your contact person for any questions/requests you may have regarding Health Highlights or the EuroHealthNet communication strategy.

Background

Ariane is French and studied International and European law and journalism, in Bordeaux (France) and in The Hague (The Netherlands). She moved to Brussels in 1999 when she started to work at European level, for the European Institutions and for European Federations. She spent 7 years at the European Commission and at the European Parliament as a Communication Manager and Press Officer. She coordinated different communication campaigns (European Constitution, Asylum and Immigration policy).  She gained some experience in health issues working for the European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC).

You can contact Ariane at a.moret@eurohealthnet.eu or by phone - +32 2 235 03 28

Responsibilities

Ingrid is responsible for coordinating the DETERMINE project, which aims to progress action on the social determinants of health in an EU context. This entails working with the project management team, who coordinate the different DETERMINE work strands, the project officer and project participants to shape, guide, contribute to, bring together and communicate DETERMINE outcomes. It also involves the organisation of all DETERMINE related events to ensure that DETERMINE objectives are met

Background

Ingrid Stegeman has been with EuroHealthNet since 2002. She has worked on Health Inequalities, Social Inclusion and Health, and Health Impact Assessment and was appointed as DETERMINE coordinator from 2008. Prior to joining EuroHealthNet, she was active in the field of children's rights and worked as a project assisstant and researcher for various organisations in the field. Ingrid has a BA in International Studies from the Vassar College in New York, and an MA in Political Sciences from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and a Certificate in Project Management (BU).

Responsibilities

As Research and Knowledge coordinator, Claudia Marinetti’s role is to link with research-related European initiatives concerning health, health inequities and their social determinants, and to feed research into the organization’s work. In particular, Claudia is responsible for the coordination of DRIVERS “Addressing the strategic Determinants to Reduce health Inequity Via 1) Early childhood development, 2) Realising fair employment, and 3) Social protection.”

The coordination of this project entails working with the project management team, the project officer and project participants to shape, steer, contribute to, bring together and disseminate DRIVERS outcomes. It also involves research activities, the organisation of DRIVERS related events, as well as project administration and consortium management.

Background

Claudia joined EuroHealthNet in March 2010. Her background is in Social Psychology, with an MSc in Organizational and Social Psychology (University of Padua, Italy), and a PhD in Social and Applied Psychology (University of Oxford, UK). Prior to joining EuroHealthNet, she has conducted and coordinated research on inequality issues linked to prejudice and discrimination, socio-economic status, and conflict. She has been involved in several cross-cultural projects and in work on issues related to immigration and low socio-economical backgrounds, including education outcomes and resources accessibility.