Elske Hoornenborg

Elske Hoorneborg is the Director of the Sexual Health Center of the Public Health Service of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Sexual Health Center provides testing and care related to sexual health for the population of Amsterdam and the surrounding municipalities.
In 2020, she obtained her PhD in epidemiology for her research on the introduction of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the Netherlands. Her current areas of expertise include research on HIV prevention, the effects of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, prevention and testing of viral hepatitis, and mpox.
In addition, she also works as a specialist physician in HIV treatment at DC Klinieken Amsterdam.
She has participated in advisory board meetings of the European CDC and the WHO.