Dionne Kringos

This PhD position sits within GOV4CARE , a five-year European research project coordinated by the Health Systems and Services Research group at Amsterdam UMC in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare . The project focuses on how European healthcare systems can improve their ecological sustainability and climate resilience, and how these goals can be embedded in policy, governance, organization, and everyday care practice. The doctoral research is internationally comparative and examines why healthcare systems differ in their environmental performance and preparedness for climate-related disruption. The project spans 31 European countries and combines analysis of national strategies, policy instruments, indicators, datasets, and comparative case studies. It also investigates how system performance relates to wider contextual factors and how sustainability and climate resilience intersect with other core aims of healthcare systems, including quality, accessibility, equity, and efficiency. You will work in a multidisciplinary and internationally oriented team at Amsterdam UMC , within the Department of Public and Occupational Health . The research group studies how health systems can function better, with attention to quality, accessibility, equity, efficiency, ecological sustainability, and climate resilience. The group collaborates closely with policymakers, healthcare organizations, and international partners, including the World Health Organization . The project offers the opportunity to contribute to a European consortium with more than 25 partners, to publish a PhD thesis based on peer-reviewed articles, and to present findings at national and international meetings. The student will also help translate research insights into recommendations for policy, organization, and healthcare practice, and will contribute to teaching within the department. The supervision team consists of Dionne Kringos , Oscar Brito Fernandes , and Niek Sperna Weiland .

This postdoc sits within GOV4CARE , an international European consortium led by Amsterdam UMC that examines how health systems can become more ecologically sustainable and climate-resilient. The position is based in the Health Systems and Services Research group in the Department of Public and Occupational Health , where researchers study how health systems perform in terms of quality, accessibility, equity, efficiency, ecological sustainability, and resilience. The project places the postdoc at the intersection of governance , implementation research , and health systems comparison . A major strand of the work focuses on how mitigation strategies are introduced and scaled up in healthcare, with particular attention to sustainable procurement and the use of CO₂ criteria and life cycle assessment in public purchasing. The role also contributes to comparative analyses of European health systems, exploring how policy, financing, organisation, and institutional characteristics shape system performance and what countries can learn from one another. The postdoc will work closely with international project partners who assess environmental, health, economic, and systems effects of mitigation strategies, and who contribute to future-oriented scenario modelling for sustainable healthcare transitions. The advertised work is embedded in a multidisciplinary and internationally oriented research environment, with collaboration across universities, research institutes, healthcare organisations, and international organisations. Amsterdam UMC also links the project to its Centre for Sustainable Care , creating a connection between comparative research and practice-oriented sustainability work in healthcare. The role offers substantial scientific responsibility: developing and carrying out comparative case studies, analysing governance and implementation processes, contributing to cross-country studies, producing publications, and helping translate findings into actionable insights for policymakers and healthcare leaders. The position also includes collaboration on teaching and student supervision within the department, and may involve scientific supervision of PhD candidates depending on experience. Overall, this is a research-intensive postdoc for someone interested in how governance and implementation shape sustainable transitions in healthcare systems across Europe.

This postdoctoral project at Amsterdam UMC is part of the European GOV4CARE consortium and focuses on measuring and improving the ecological sustainability and climate resilience of European health systems. You will work within the Health Systems and Services Research group in the Department of Public and Occupational Health at Amsterdam UMC, in close collaboration with the Amsterdam UMC Centre for Sustainable Care and international partners across the consortium. A key scientific partner is Yale University, which leads this work package. The project aims to build an integrated international framework for assessing health system performance in relation to sustainability and climate resilience. You will help develop and operationalize two connected sets of indicators: one for national and, where relevant, subnational health systems, and one for healthcare organizations such as hospitals. The research uses comparative data from 31 European countries and selected care organizations to create scientifically robust, internationally comparable, and policy-relevant measures. Your work will include reviewing and synthesizing existing international frameworks, selecting and defining indicators, preparing metadata and measurement protocols, validating data with the Strategic Co-Design Panel, and contributing to the harmonization and assessment of multi-country and organizational data. You will also help produce scientific papers, methodological reports, and other research outputs, while collaborating with policymakers, health organizations, and international research partners. The team combines research on quality, accessibility, equity, efficiency, ecological sustainability, and climate resilience, and offers a multidisciplinary and internationally oriented environment for developing as an independent researcher.