Tineke Abma

Tineke A. Abma is Professor ‘Arts in Health’ in the School for Health Policy and Management at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is also Professor ‘Participation of Older People’ in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care at Leiden University Medical Centre, and Executive Director of Leyden Academy of Vitality and Ageing in Leiden. 

Tineke’s main publications center around Public Health, Bioethics, User Involvement, Patient Participation, Responsive Evaluation and Qualitative Methodologies. Since 2019 she is active in the field of Arts & Health and has published on the meaning of the arts for people’s health and well-being. Her international books include Evaluation for a Caring Society (IAP Press, 2018) and Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being (Springer Nature, 2019).