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Lidewij Henneman (1972) is health scientist and appointed to the Department of Clinical Genetics, section Community Genetics and the Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam. She is a certified teacher at the faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine.
As senior researcher she is involved in research activities in the field of community genetics and public health genomics such as:
• genetic risk (& family history information) and behavioural change;
• the application of genetics in personal risk profiling to target disease prevention;
• genetic risks and reproductive decision-making;
• genetic communication and education;
• genetic knowledge and risk communication among health care professionals;
• implementation of population-based carrier screening (cystic fibrosis and haemoglobinopathies);
• attitudes of the general public towards genetic testing and genetic risk information
(see also under Projects and Publications).
She received the 'Dutch Public Health Award' (Volksgezondheidsprijs) for her PhD project ‘Preconceptional cystic fibrosis carrier screening- desirability and feasibility in the Netherlands’ (thesis VU Amsterdam, 2002).