Sam Hundersmarck

PhD Candidate on (Regional) Cross-Sector Collaboration for Health System Transformation | MSc Population Health Management | BSc Medicine | Global & Planetary Health Advocate

The Randstad, Netherlands

About

With a foundation in Medicine and a Master’s in Population Health Management, I focus on understanding and enabling transformations toward more equitable, wellbeing-oriented societies. As part of my current PhD research, I seek to understand how contextual conditions and collaborative dynamics enable or hinder cross-sector partnerships in driving system transformation toward integrated health and wellbeing systems. By uncovering what facilitates or constrains such partnerships across governance levels, I aim to inform policy and practice on the supportive conditions needed to strengthen the shift from reactive care toward prevention, health, and wellbeing. Overall, I bring a systems-thinking approach that goes beyond individual care, looking upstream to identify structural barriers and leverage points for sustainable change. With a strong sense of justice, I am especially motivated by the need to challenge inequities and support accessible solutions that serve all. I am also passionate about global and planetary health, and how collaboration and systemic design can shape healthier, more resilient futures. If you share an interest in systems change, equity, and the future of health, I’d be happy to connect.

Experience

  • PhD Candidate at Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    On transforming to sustainable health and wellbeing systems through (regional) cross-sector partnerships

  • Project Assistant Urban Policy, Sustainability and Health at Gemeente Den Haag
    Feb 2024 - Nov 2024 · 10 mos

    Researching the integration of health considerations in policy-making to advance wellbeing through the development of sustainable urban living environments

  • IFMSA-NL (3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Planetary Health Advocate
      Jun 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Member of IFMSA-NL's advocacy group 'Act4Health'

    • Trainer
      Jan 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Capacity building, soft and hard skills

    • Acting Treasurer
      Apr 2022 - Oct 2022 · 7 mos

  • Programme Committee MSc Population Health Management at Universiteit Leiden
    Oct 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs

    Programme committees are important bodies for assuring quality of study programmes, as is the programme committee for the master programme Population Health Management. The degree is part of Leiden University Medical Center and is connected to Health Campus The Hague.

  • Research Assistant at Leiden University Medical Center
    May 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Aiding in several research projects with the Health Campus and Haga Hospital in The Hague: - Primary care utilization and workforce sustainability - Metabolic Syndrome; diagnosis and payment