Jacqueline Weekers

Jacqueline Weekers has been working in the domain of Migrant Health for over 15 years. She is currently employed at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland as the senior Migrant Health Officer and works on the promotion of migrant health within the Organization and plans and oversees related activities. Until recently she was employed at the International Organization for Migration, where she had responsibilities ranging from development and management of migration health programmes globally, to advising governments and partners on policy and programme matters as the senior migration health policy advisor, aiming at approaches that address and manage the health of migrants and their hosting communities. Jacqueline Weekers is a Swiss and Dutch national and has an educational background in psychology and public health. Before joining the international community, she practiced as a psychologist in the USA and The Netherlands.