Ria Reis

Education
1996 PhD Medical Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (UVA)
1987 MA (with honours) Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amster¬dam (VUA)
1977 BA (with annotation) Cultural Anthropology, (VUA)
1973 Gymnasium ß, Montessori Lyceum, Rotterdam

Occupation
2014 - Honorary Professor, The Children’s Institute, School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
2009 - Professor of medical anthropology, in particular anthropology in public health, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), University of Leiden
2005 - Associate Professor (UHD), Department of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology (SOCA),  University of Amsterdam (UVA)

Leadership
2010 -  2013, 2016 Director (with A. M’Charek) research program Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
2000 - 2010    Director Amsterdam Master's in Medical Anthropology (AMMA), successful NVAO accreditation, UVA.
1996 - 1999    Program design and management AMMA, UVA.

Projects
2019-2024 Scaling up the WHO-PEN package for diabetes and hypertension in Eswatini: a nation-wide clusterrandomised evaluation of three strategies in Eswatini (WHO-PEN@Scale).
Collaborators: MOH Eswatini, UMCenter Heidelberg, Swaziland University and others
Fund: EU-HORIZON 2020
Funding: (AIGHD)