Lieve Fransen

Lieve Fransen, MD, PhD is the Head of the Social & Human Development Unit for the European Commission's Directorate-General of Development. She has managed research programs in Kenya and Rwanda and served as a public health advisor to the Health Ministry of Mozambique. From 1987 to 1993 she was Director of the European Commission's AIDS Task Force. Dr. Fransen has written peer-reviewed publications and numerous policy documents for the European Council and the European Parliament, and has served as Vice-Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Together with Prof. Alan Whiteside, she prepared an HIV/AIDS Toolkit "Study of the Impact of HIV Epidemic on the Social and Economic Development of Developing Countries."