Anniek de Ruijter is Associate Professor of Health Law and Policy at University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), and Director and Initiator of the Law Centre for Health and Life. Her research focuses on questions regarding constitutional safeguards for health-specific rights and values, particularly also in the context of EU and global regulatory interactions. She has expertise in theoretical and legal analyses, which she combines with qualitative social science approaches. She works in interdisciplinary collaboration within biomedical, public health, economic and social science consortia and is the co-lead on two research interdisciplinary research consortia, on Global Health and on AI Decision-making in Health. She is a Board member of Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Section on Public Health and Law of the European Public Health Association, and co-initiator of the European Health Union Manifesto initiative (with the Gastein Forum).