Aura Timen (born 1966) is a Romanian medical doctor based in the Netherlands. She is head of the department of primary care and professor of primary and community care at Radboud University Nijmegen.[1][2][3]
Timen has a degree in medicine from Babeș-Bolyai UniversityinCluj-Napoca, Romania (1991), but moved to the Netherlands in 1992 and had to requalify so also has a medical degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1995).[3] She has a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands (2010), where her thesis was on "Outbreak management: towards a model for the next crisis".[4]
Radboud took up a post with the Netherlands' National Coordination Centre for Outbreak Management, (LCI, Landelijke Coördinatie Infectieziektebestrijding [nl], part of RIVM, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), in 2000, and was its head from 2011 to 2022.[3] There she led the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands.[5][6]
Between 2017 and 2022 she led the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Preparedness and IHR monitoring and response.[1]
In 2022, on taking up her post at Radboud, she said "With the conviction that public health does not end where healthcare begins, I want to turn the lessons of the corona crisis into research questions for the better care of the future."[1]
In 2020, de Volkskrant listed Timen as number 17 in its annual list of the 200 most influential people in the Netherlands.[7]
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