Christian van Stolk is executive vice president at RAND Europe. He has worked extensively on health and wellbeing in the workplace. His research in the past has focused on improving the health and wellbeing of staff in the National Health Service in the UK, maintaining and gaining employment for those with common mental health conditions, building an evidence base for health interventions in workplace settings, and looking at the relationship between productivity and health and wellbeing outcomes.
Over the years, van Stolk has advised large private sector employers, the UK government, European institutions, the OECD, and the World Bank. He currently manages RAND's work on the Britain's Healthiest Workplace competition with Vitality Health and Asia’s Healthiest Workplace competitions with AIA.
He sits on several expert panels for the UK government including those on occupational health, mental health, and employee health and wellbeing in the NHS. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and fellowships at the Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Society of the Arts.
Selected Publications
Hafner, Marco, Erez Yerushalmi, Clement Fays, Eliane Dufresne, and Christian Van Stolk, COVID-19 and the cost of vaccine nationalism, RAND Corporation (RR-A769-1), 2020
Hafner, Marco, Erez Yerushalmi, William D. Phillips, Jack Pollard, Advait Deshpande, Michael Whitmore, Francois Millard, Shaun Subel, and Christian Van Stolk, The economic benefits of a more physically active population: An international analysis, RAND Corporation (RR-4291), 2019
Hafner, Marco, Jack Pollard, and Christian Van Stolk, Incentives and physical activity: An assessment of the association between Vitality's Active Rewards with Apple Watch benefit and sustained physical activity improvements, RAND Corporation (RR-2870), 2018
Hafner, Marco, Martin Stepanek, Jirka Taylor, Wendy M. Troxel, and Christian Van Stolk, Why sleep matters — the economic costs of insufficient sleep: A cross-country comparative analysis, RAND Corporation (RR-1791), 2016
Hafner, Marco, Christian Van Stolk, Catherine L. Saunders, Joachim Krapels, and Ben Baruch, Health, wellbeing and productivity in the workplace: A Britain's Healthiest Company summary report, RAND Corporation (RR-1084), 2015