192 Curriculum vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Joyce Molenaar was born 31 March 1993 in Schagen, the Netherlands. She completed a bachelor in Health Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in 2014, and obtained a Global Health research master’s degree at the same university in 2016. During several research internships, she became acquainted with research related to pregnancy and childbirth. She studied contraceptive decision-making at Bureau Studentenartsen in Amsterdam and conducted research on client-centered collaboration in maternity care networks in North Holland. Additionally, she traveled to Malawi for a study into social accountability in maternal health service delivery. From 2016 to 2018, Joyce worked at the Research Centre for Midwifery Science, Academie Verloskunde Maastricht, Zuyd Hogeschool. Her research project was focused on shared decision-making in maternity care. In co-creation with healthcare providers and clients, she and her colleagues developed an intervention to promote shared decision-making during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care: a tailored e-learning for healthcare providers and a concise film for clients. During several periods from 2016 to 2018, Joyce also worked as a researcher and teacher at Athena Institute, VU Amsterdam. In this position, she contributed to a research project that reflexively monitored the system’s innovation towards integrated maternity care. In 2017, Joyce also started volunteering at BuurtBuik, an initiative that tackles food waste and fosters social contact by preparing meals for and with local residents using surplus foods. She was a founding member and the chairperson of the first BuurtBuik-location in Utrecht. In 2019, realizing that she greatly enjoyed doing research related to pregnancy and childbirth, Joyce started her PhD-project focusing on the action program Solid Start, which resulted in this dissertation. She was affiliated with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Health Campus The Hague, department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Centre. During her PhD, Joyce also contributed to the national and local Solid Start-monitoring projects at RIVM, and was involved in various research and teaching activities in The Hague. From August to October 2023, she was a visiting scholar at the Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR) at the University of Michigan, and the department of General Pediatrics of Boston Children’s Hospital. Joyce continues her work at RIVM on various projects related to the first thousand days and cross-sectoral collaboration. Next to that, she works as a postdoctoral researcher in a participatory action research project at Health Campus The Hague, focused on improving local practice regarding unintended pregnancies and vulnerability during parenthood by strengthening collaboration.
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