Aura Timen

Aura Timen (born 1966) is a Romanian medical doctor based in the Netherlands. She is head of the department of primary care and professor of primary and community care at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Early years and education Timen has a degree in medicine from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1991), but moved to the Netherlands in 1992 and had to requalify so also has a medical degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1995).

Career Radboud took up a post with the Netherlands' National Coordination Centre for Outbreak Management, (LCI, , part of RIVM, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), in 2000, and was its head from 2011 to 2022.

Between 2017 and 2022 she led the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Preparedness and IHR monitoring and response.