Bart Janssens is a medical doctor from Belgium, who shortly after graduating started working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the field. From 1995 to 2006 he has worked in Afghanistan, Angola, Kosovo, DRC and Cambodia, in the first couple of years as a clinician, later on as a health programme manager (medical coordinator). Besides his medical degree, he holds a diploma in tropical medicine from the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, worked 2 years in internal medicine in Belgium and has a Masters degree in public health at the London School of Tropical medicine. From 2006 to 2010, he worked as health coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Burundi and Pakistan. From 2010 he worked at the headquarters of MSF in Brussels, first as a deputy medical director, then as the Director of Operations. In 2018 and this present day, he started as the first director of the recently-created MSF Academy.
From May 2024, he joined the WHO Academy as the Director of Learning and Innovation.
