About me
Dr. Henriette van Eijl leads the unit ‘Health and Societal Transitions’ in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. The Unit ensures that R&I policies and programmes, especially Horizon Europe, support the EU policy objectives in health and social transitions, notably in demographic change, inter-generational fairness, mental health, wellbeing, migration, socio-economic and inclusion issues.
She is an EC official with 15 years' experience in 4 EC Directorates-General and in a national administration, industry and academia in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. Henriette holds a PhD in virology from Oxford University. In her spare time, she is a patron of the Flagey music centre in Brussels and enjoys hiking with her two Weimaraner dogs.