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Fleur Hierink is a Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Geneva's Institute of Global Health, part of the Faculty of Medicine. She specializes in geospatial modeling to improve healthcare access and disease distribution analysis, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. She co-coordinates the PhD program in Global Health and teaches the course GeoHealth - Geospatial Approaches in Global Health.
Her education includes a Bachelor’s in Health- and Life Sciences from VU Amsterdam, an MSc in Biomedical Sciences (Toxicology and Environmental Health) from Utrecht University, and a PhD in GeoHealth from the University of Geneva (2022). Her doctoral work focused on geographical accessibility to healthcare in resource-limited settings.
Her research interests include geospatial tools for health service delivery during disasters, epidemic risk modeling, and optimizing healthcare systems using GIS. Recent articles highlight work on Mali’s health facility accuracy, Ethiopia’s primary healthcare roadmap, and Mozambique’s post-cyclone healthcare rehabilitation. She has developed the inAccessMod R package for geospatial accessibility analysis.
No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but her contributions to open-source geospatial tools reflect impactful work. She advises on the PhD program and collaborates internationally, with affiliations at the GeoHealth group’s UNI CARLVOGT office in Geneva.
