Jan Paul Vandenbroucke - Biography#

Jan P. Vandenbroucke was trained as a specialist in internal medicine at the University of Leuven, Belgium. In 1979 he obtained a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, USA, and in 1981 a PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, 1986 - 2015. Currently he is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

For the past 30 years he was mainly involved in the conduct of observational studies; his main interest is the application of epidemiologic methods to problems of aetiology and pathogenesis that are investigated in academic medical centres. In 2002-2003 he held a sabbatical at Oxford, UK. He was appointed as an Academy Professor by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh. He served on the international advisory board of The Lancet, and was a co-author of the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines.