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Lieve Fransen
Lieve Fransen
Director for Social Policies and strategy 2020 for growth and competitiveness; at DG Employment and Social affairs; of the European Commission
Personal details
Born	April 17, 1950; Gent, Belgium
Spouse	Noah Howard
Residence(s)	Brussels, Belgium
Alma mater	University of Antwerp, Belgium; Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium; Ghent University, Belgium
Website	ec.europa.eu/represent_en.htm; DG Communication Website

Lieve Fransen is a Senior Adviser to European Policy Centre on health, social and migration policies. Formerly, after having been since 2011 the Director for Social Policies in the Directorate for Employment and Social affairs for the European Commission. Before that she was Director for Representations in the Directorate for Communication and was in charge of the 35 Representations with 500 staff and for more than 500 networks across the European Union .

She started her career as a Medical Doctor in Africa during the 1970s and 1980s (mainly in Mozambique,^[1] Kenya^[2] and Rwanda), with a particular interest in sexually transmitted infections. In several African countries she developed new initiatives and ensured implementation through international cooperation and strategic planning.^[1] In 1987, the European Commission hired Fransen as a consultant from the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp to survey blood transfusion and HIV seropositive rates in Uganda.^[3]^[4] This led the European Commission to help Uganda set up a safe blood supply,^[4] and then to create the AIDS Task Force,^[4] an international foundation of which Fransen was the founding executive director from 1987,^[2]^[4] until 1993.^[4]

In 1993 she joined the European Commission as the Head of the Health, AIDS and Population Sector.^[4] She was in charge of negotiating tiered pricing for pharmaceutical products for developing countries. During this period, she was also the guest editor for the Policy Research Department of the World Bank. In 2001 she became the Head of the Social and Human Development Unit in Directorate-General for Development in charge of social protection, employment, health, education and gender.

She was a founding board member and vice-chair of the Board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) representing the European Commission and several EU member states from 2000 to 2007,^[2] where she helped create a large public/private partnership and performance-based fund (8 billion pledges in 4 years).^{[citation needed]}

She has written more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and numerous policy documents for the European Council and the European Parliament. She holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp in social policies and public health. She was awarded the National Order of the Lion of the Republic of Senegal (1999) for special merit in the fight against HIV/AIDS and she received the Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights (2000).

References

^ ^a ^b Cliff, Julie; Walt, Gill; Nhatave, Isabel (2004). "What's in a Name? Policy Transfer in Mozambique: DOTS for Tuberculosis and Syndromic Management for Sexually Transmitted Infections". Journal of Public Health Policy. 25 (1): 46. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Piot, Peter (2012). No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 112–113, 173, 319. ISBN 9780393084115. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ Schneider, William H. (2013). The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ohio University Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780821444535. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Winsbury, Rex, ed. (1995). Safe Blood in Developing Countries - the Lessons from Uganda (PDF). Brussels, Belgium: European Commission. pp. 34–35, 60–61. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

External links

Europe Direct Networks Annual Report 2009
Annual Report of the Europe Direct Information Centres 2008
The European Union: A Strategic Approach, Article on Sexual Violence, Forced Migration Review, Issue 27, 01/2007
Collaboration between the European Commission and the World Bank, Press Release, 21/04/2006
Commission gets increasing role in the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, Press Release, 28/03/2006
Towards a future and some hope, Article, Global Future, Second Quarter 2004
Confronting AIDS: public priorities in a global epidemic, A World Bank Policy Research Report, 1999
The Economic Impact of Adult Mortality on Households in Rakai District, Uganda Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds.). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World." Brussels: European Commission, 1998
The Impact of AIDS on the Economy of Families in Côte d’Ivoire: Changes in Consumption Among AIDS-affected Households, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds.). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission, 1998
Expenditures on AIDS in Côte d'Ivoire, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission, Chapter 12B, 1998
Expenditures on AIDS in Tanzania, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission, Chapter 12E, 1998
Expenditures on AIDS in Thailand, Ainsworth, M., L. Fransen, and M. Over (eds). "Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World.” Brussels: European Commission. (Chapter 12F), 1998
Cost-effectiveness of improved treatment services for sexually transmitted diseases in preventing HIV-1 infection in Mwanza Region, Tanzania, Article, The Lancet, Volume 350, Issue 9094, Pages 1805 - 1809, 20/12/1997
AIDS : The Commission presents the current situation of its programme, Press Release, 28/02/1991

Category:HIV/AIDS activists Category:HIV/AIDS in Africa Category:Living people Category:European civil servants Category:1950 births Category:Recipients of the National Order of the Lion Category:Belgian physicians Category:Belgian officials of the European Union

[Cliff-1] Cliff, Julie; Walt, Gill; Nhatave, Isabel (2004). "What's in a Name? Policy Transfer in Mozambique: DOTS for Tuberculosis and Syndromic Management for Sexually Transmitted Infections". Journal of Public Health Policy. 25 (1): 46. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

[Piot-2] Piot, Peter (2012). No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 112–113, 173, 319. ISBN 9780393084115. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

[Schneider-3] Schneider, William H. (2013). The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ohio University Press. p. 81. ISBN 9780821444535. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

[SafeBlood-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Winsbury, Rex, ed. (1995). Safe Blood in Developing Countries - the Lessons from Uganda (PDF). Brussels, Belgium: European Commission. pp. 34–35, 60–61. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

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