Anniek de Ruijter LLM PhD is Professor of Health Law and Policy at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. She is the Director of Law for Health and Life, Director of the Amsterdam Law Practice, Member of the Board of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and Coordinator of the International & European Health Law course in UvA’s Master in Health Law programme. Anniek researches the intersection of law and human health, focusing on the roles of digitalisation, globalisation, Europeanisation, and the environment.

Katrina Perehudoff MSc LLM PhD is an Assistant Professor in Global and European Health at Law for Health and Life at the University of Amsterdam. Her research examines the tensions between legal norms impacting on pharmaceuticals, and the effect of law and policy on access to medicines. 

Rolinka Wijne PhD is a Lecturer in Liability and Law Enforcement in Healthcare at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. She is chair of the Medical Disciplinary Board for Obstetrics and Member of the Regional College for Medical Disciplinary Law, and owner of Wijne Health Law. She is also a legal member of the LZA / LP committee and employed by the scientific bureau of Holla advocaten (liability, insurance and health section).

Corrette Ploem Phd is a Professor of Law, Healthcare Technology and Medicine at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam on special appointment. She is working as a teacher and researcher in the broader field of health law at the Amsterdam UMC. She is a member of various committees and advisory bodies, such as the National Committee on Research involving Human Subjects and the Health Council. Further, she is the editor in chief of the Dutch Journal of Health Law. Her research focuses on the legal aspects of introducing new technologies in healthcare, research and screening, such as digitalization, artificial intelligence, DNA- and reproductive technologies.

Mahsa Shabani is Associate Professor in Health Privacy Law and Innovation. Prior to joining UvA, she was an assistant professor and co-director of Metamedica Center at Ghent University. Her research focus is on personal data protection, health privacy, data sharing, and data-driven biomedical research ethics, law and policy. She has extensively published her work in scientific journals with a broad readership in the fields of data protection, medical law, bioethics,  genomics and bioinformatics. Previously, she was visiting scholar at the Center of Genomics and Policy at McGill University, the Center for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at University of Oxford, and the Columbia CEER at Columbia University Medical Center. Currently, she is a member of the Ethics advisory broad of various European Commission (EC) funded projects. She is also a selected member of the Scientific Committee of the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium, European Society of Human Genetics (member of the SPC) and The Joint Action for the European Health Data Space. She is currently (co-)PI of projects PROPHET ( Horizon Europe), Crowd-scourced genetic data for research purposes (FWO), fairness in secondary uses of health data (BOF), and Smart glasses in primary care (TETRA). 

Bastiaan Wallage PhD LLM is a Lecturer in Health Law at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. He is an attorney at the firm Van Benthem & Keulen where he specialises in healthcare regulation, supervision and enforcement. Bastiaan is also a member of a dispute committee of the Association for Dutch Municipalities and is supervisor of a healthcare provider active in the mental health field. 

Merel Spaander MSc LLM is trained as a neuroscientist and a health lawyer. She is a Lecturer in UvA’s Master in Health Law programme of the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. 

James W. Hazel, Ph.D., J.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow at Law for Health and Life at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. His current research explores the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare decision-making, with a focus on implications for the patient-physician legal relationship. His previous work has explored the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies, including direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the collection, use, and sharing of genetic and other sensitive health data for healthcare, research, and law enforcement purposes. He holds a law degree (J.D.) from Vanderbilt University Law School and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wyoming, where his doctoral research focused on the mitotic spindle, the target of many chemotherapeutic cancer drugs. 

Jannet Vaessen is a Senior Research Fellow of Practice at Law for Health and Life at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores the scientific paradigm shift towards diversity in health care and medical science, with a focus on the implications for professionals and patients.

Jannet Vaessen in her previous work founded the Dutch NGO WOMEN Inc. through which she explored extensively gender injustices in the Netherlands around various societal themes, such as the paygap, representation - particularly also on health justice differences between men and women. With a theory of change and initiating multi-stakeholder alliances, she worked through WOMEN Inc. to realize several structural gender equality changes in law, policy, scientific agenda’s and public and professional awareness on a diversity of topics.

Vaessen holds a master’s degree in modern history at the University of Amsterdam with a focus on the history of science.

Eva Deen is a Lecturer in Health Law at the Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam. She is Member of the Regional College for Medical Disciplinary Law and owner of Deen Gezondheidsrecht. She is also a member of the complaints committee of FamilySupporters.

Floor Bennebroek is Communications & Community Manager at Law for Health and Life, where her interests in communication and health come together. She is responsible for LHL’s internal and external communications, including the website, social media and newsletters. She also supports the ELSA Lab AI for Health Equity and the University of Amsterdam’s strategic theme Healthy Future.

Isabel Benedict is a Research Assistant at Law for Health and Life. She conducts research on the use of artificial intelligence in digital health. Her research examines how AI technologies can be responsibly and lawfully integrated into digital health systems, taking into account the rapid pace of technological innovation and the sensitive nature of healthcare data.