Biography
I am trained as an interpretative and qualitative sociologist and have been engaging throughout my academic career in research and education into issues of governance of health and citizens’ and patients’ experiences and involvement in such practices. I am intrigued by sociological work on risk and uncertainty, medical sociology and health policy, and qualitative research methods such as ethnography, action research and discourse analysis. Currently I am exploring questions on (pandemic) preparedness and health system resilience, with a particular focus on the lived experiences and concrete practices through which such might be achieved.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Assistant professor | Health Care Governance (HCG)
- degraaff@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Valérie Johannavan Hezik-Wester, Saskia de Groot, Job van Exel, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Bert de Graaff (2026) - In good paws: A qualitative investigation into patients’ and caregivers’ experiences with seizure dogs - Epilepsy and Behavior, 178 - doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2026.110954 - [link]
- Philipa Mos, Bert de Graaff, Michelle Heijke, Hester Lingsma, Robert Jan Baatenburg de Jong & Vivian Reckers-Droog (2026) - “They Are Not Going to Be Happy”: An Ethnographic Study of the Prioritization of Patients Awaiting Elective Surgery in an Academic Hospital in the Netherlands - Medical Decision Making - doi: 10.1177/0272989X261422220 - [link]
- Renée Michels, Diana Delnoij, Wichor Bramer & Bert De Graaff (2025) - The role of European HTA agencies in relation to the governance of medical technologies: a discourse analysis of academic literature - Health Economics, Policy and Law - doi: 10.1017/S1744133125100339 - [link]
- Bert de Graaff, Sabrina Huizenga & Roland Bal (2025) - ‘It’s about the connections we’ve made with each other’: resilience and risk translation in governing healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic - Social science & medicine (1982), 380 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118246 - [link]
- Renee Michels, Diana Delnoij & Bert de Graaff (2025) - In a Loop of Anticipation: The Anticipatory Practices of MedTech Industry Actors - Futures, 171 - doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103629
- Renee Else Michels, Diana M.J. Delnoij & Martinus B. de Graaff (2025) - HTA between theory and practice: Exploring boundary work in broadening HTA For MedTech governance - Health Policy and Technology, 14 (3) - doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2025.101008 - [link]
- Robert Borst, Yared Abayneh Abebe, Karin van Vuuren, Julien Magana, Bert de Graaff, Saba Hinrichs-Krapels, Bas Kolen, Maria Pregnolato, Anja Schreijer, Tina Comes, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman & Roland Bal (2025) - Keeping healthcare afloat: a protocol for a 5-year multi-sited interdisciplinary research project into preparedness of healthcare for floods in the Netherlands - Health Research Policy and Systems, 23 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12961-025-01338-4
- Jolien van de Sande, Bert de Graaff, Diana Delnoij & Antoinette de Bont (2024) - Navigating conflicting expectations in addressing healthcare scarcity: a q-methodology study on the Dutch National Health Care Institute - Health Economics, Policy and Law, 19 (4), 498-516 - doi: 10.1017/S1744133124000136 - [link]
- Robert Borst & Bert de Graaff (2024) - De dubbelzinnigheid van <i>resilience </i>in de zorg op Bonaire, Sint-Eustatius en Saba: eerste onderzoeksresultaten
- dr. Rik Wehrens & dr. Bert de Graaff (2024) - Working With Epistemic Uncertainties: Emerging Entanglements Within Conditional Reimbursement Practices - Health Policy and Technology, 13 (2) - doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2024.100850 - [link]
- Karin van Vuuren, Robert Borst, Bert de Graaff, Floor Moes & Roland Bal (27 January 2026) - Opinie: Staar je niet blind op normen en kaders in de voorbereiding op extreme regen
- Diana Delnoij, Hester Lingsma, Robert Jan Baatenburg de Jong, Anouk van Alphen, Esmee Venema, Michelle Heijke, Vivian Reckers, Bert de Graaff, Thomas Reindersma, Philipa Mos, Joost Enzing & Saskia Knies (13 January 2025) - Verdeel schaarse zorg niet alleen op basis van urgentie
- Bert de Graaff (2024) - European Sociological Association (External organisation) (Chair)
Activity: Membership of network › Academic - Robert Borst & Bert de Graaff (2024) - Tussen ‘Acts of God’ en risicobeheersing: resilience in de zorg op Bonaire, Sint-Eustatius en Saba (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - MB (Bert) de Graaff (2018) - Health Risk & Society (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic
- Bert de Graaff, Suzanne Rutz, Annemiek Stoopendaal & Hester van de Bovenkamp (2024) - Vide publicatieprijs 2024
