Tine Vervoort
Tine Vervoort is Associate Professor & Head of the Health Equity Advancement Lab in Ghent. She leads a theoretically integrative and clinically informative program of research on interpersonal dynamics in pain and mental health care ...
Ama Kissi
Ama Kissi co-leads the Health Equity Advancement Lab in Ghent and holds a position as senior post-doctoral researcher. Her research concerns innovative work on the psychosocial determinants of racism in pain and mental health care...
Fleur Baert
Fleur Baert is a senior post-doctoral fellow in the lab whose current research centers on intersectional dynamics of credibility and communication within chronic pain care ...
Maité Van Alboom
Maité Van Alboom is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab. She has conducted stigma research for several years. Her current work expands this focus to aging, examining ageism, existential concerns, and mental well-being among older adults through an intersectional lens...
Aline Wauters
Aline Wauters is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab coordinating and leading research on memory for pain and birth related experiences and overall perinatal mental health...
Maaike Afschrift
Maaike is a clinical psychologist and client-centered and experiential psychotherapist specialised in Focusing and Focusing Oriented Therapy. Within our lab, she contributes as a teaching assistant for the course 'Psychological Skills & diagnostics'...
Melanie Noel
Melanie Noel is Professor at the University of Calgary (CA) and international partner of our lab. She is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on children’s memories for pain, co-occurring mental health issues and intergenerational trauma and pain...
Adam Hirsh
Adam Hirsh is Professor at Indiana University Indianapolis (USA) and international partner on several research projects of our lab. Collaborative work is reflected by innovative, cross-cultural studies on pain-related injustice and racial disparities in child pain care...
Kai Karos
Kai Karos is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University and international partner of our lab. He is recognized for his work on stigmatization, injustice and invalidation in the context of pain...