Sciensano
Wesley Van Dessel is currently serving as the Head of Service Scientific Coordination and Communications at Sciensano since April 2018. His role involves managing external communications strategies, PR, marketing, science communication, crisis communication, and media relations. He is also responsible for consolidating and managing a newly merged service, people management, budget management, and problem-solving. Prior to his current position, Wesley held various roles at the Scientific Institute of Public Health and the European Commission, where he was involved in project management, research policy development, and communications management. Wesley's educational background includes a PhD in Biochemistry from KU Leuven, where he also obtained a Master's degree in Biochemistry.
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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).