As of January 1 this year, Erik van Raaij has taken on the new chair, “Sustainable Procurement in Healthcare.” To mark this occasion, he will deliver his inaugural address on June 4, 2025.

The inaugural lecture will start at 4:00 PM in the Auditorium of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Further details will follow.

Prof. dr. ir. Erik van Raaij is a project board-member of the ESCH-R project. He is also the workpackage leader for WP 4 “How we buy: Partnering with the supply chain to co-create circular interventions”.

The objectives for this workpackage are:

1. To identify the key purchase categories with highest potential impact based on economic and environmental performance metrics. 
2. To identify, design and evaluate viable business models for supply chain partners to enable circularity in the hospital value chain. 
3. To identify, design and evaluate purchasing and supply management (PSM) strategies for hospitals that provide optimal incentives for suppliers and supply partners to develop and provide circular interventions. 

The goal is to align suppliers, purchasers, and users around interventions that balance health outcomes, environmental impact, cost, safety, and ease of use. Alternative business models and alternative PSM strategies need to be developed with incentives for all partners in the value chain to develop, deliver and use circular interventions. 50, 51 Suppliers, purchasers and internal users need to be aligned around interventions with optimal trade-offs concerning product effectiveness, environmental impact, cost, safety and ease-of-use.