Sciensano
Els Plettinckx is a Principal Research Scientist at Sciensano, with previous experience as a Wetenschappelijk medewerker at the Scientific Institute of Public Health. They also served as a Trainee analyst policy unit at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and as a Stagiair dienst ketenbeheer en integrale werking at Dienst voor strafrechtelijk beleid. Els Plettinckx has a Bachelor's degree in Criminologische wetenschappen from Ghent University and also holds a Master's degree in de criminologische wetenschappen from the same institution. They have completed a Short program in drugs in Europe: supply, demand and public policies at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Their education background includes studies at Ghent University and Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Instituut Boom.
Sciensano
SCIENSANO can count on more than 900 staff members who commit themselves, day after day, to contributing to public health. As our name suggests, science and health are central to our mission. Sciensano’s strength and uniqueness lie within the holistic and multidisciplinary approach to health. More particularly we focus on the close and indissoluble interconnection between human and animal health and their environment (the “One health” concept). By combining different research perspectives within this framework, Sciensano connects health, science and society. For this, Sciensano builds on the more than 100 years of scientific expertise of the former Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CODA-CERVA) and the ex-Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP).