Tessa Goetghebuer, MD PhD, is a pediatrician, clinical consultant at the CHU St Pierre, and primary care consultant at the Office de la Naissance et de l’Enfance, Belgium.

She has worked as a clinician and clinical epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council Laboratories, The Gambia, conducting birth cohorts and vaccine response studies. She studied Epidemiology and Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and worked as research fellow in genetic epidemiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.

Her main research interest is prevention of infectious diseases in children, vaccination and working with vulnerable populations.