Baudouin Standaert recieved his MD at the KU Leuven and his speciality in epidemiology and in health economics at the UA, Antwerpen. He obtained his PhD in Groningen, the Netherlands. He was active in infectious diseases as a researcher on AIDS in Burundi, and worked for the WHO in Geneva on the AIDS program, and at the UC, Louvain, on disaster epidemiology, before becoming the eighth director of the Provincial Institute of Hygiene in Antwerpen for 8 years. He thereafter joined the industry as a global health economist for AMGEN (10y) and for GSK Vaccine (15y). He is now teaching as a guest professor at the University of Hasselt and works on specific HE projects of infection in ageing adults, for reaching healthy ageing.