Judith van de Kamp

Judith van de Kamp is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor Global Health Education at the Julius Center for Health Sciences at UMC Utrecht. She is a senior lecturer (SKO) and the coordinator of various global health courses at UMC Utrecht and University College Utrecht. With ethnographic research conducted in Ghana, Cameroon and The Netherlands, Judith teaches on past and present global engagement in healthcare linked to power dynamics, white saviorism, and health equity and justice. She is passionate about building equitable institutional educational curricula that allow for students to grow an intercultural and open mindset to tackle complex health challenges, both ‘at home’ and abroad. She is author of the Dutch book 'De derde wereld op je cv' (The third world on your resume) for Dutch adolescents with an interest in working in low- and middle income countries.