Bert de Graaff

Dr. Bert de Graaff is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam), specializing in the Health Care Governance department. His research focuses on governance of health systems, pandemic preparedness, and resilience, with a sociological lens emphasizing qualitative methods like ethnography and discourse analysis. He explores how healthcare systems adapt to crises such as floods and pandemics, prioritizing lived experiences and practical governance strategies.

Key research interests include:

• Health system resilience in disasters and pandemics
• Risk communication and governance networks
• Qualitative studies on healthcare decision-making
• MedTech innovation and HTA policy boundaries

Recent work includes a 5-year interdisciplinary project on healthcare flood preparedness and studies on resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. He co-edited a protocol for flood resilience research and contributed to understanding healthcare scarcity governance through Q-methodology.

Awarded the Vide publicatieprijs 2024 for collaborative healthcare research. Active in academic networks like the Health Care Governance group and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications. Supervises research projects exploring healthcare governance challenges in complex systems.