Head of PHARMO Research
PHARMO Institute for Drug Outcomes Research, Netherlands
Jetty Overbeek is Head of PHARMO Research and has about 15 years of experience in designing and conducting pharmaco-epidemiological studies in several disease areas, with the main focus on diabetes. She has about 35 scientific publications in international peer reviewed journals and is specialised in studies using the General Practitioner Database.
She earned her MSc in Public Health from Maastricht University and her PhD from VU University Medical Center Amsterdam. Her thesis focused on (pharmaco)epidemiological studies regarding type 2 diabetes, its pharmacological treatment and associations with cancer.