Nathalie Dhont
Bridging Global Research and Clinical Fertility Care
Nathalie Dhont is a Belgian gynaecologist with extensive international experience in reproductive health. After completing her medical training in Ghent, she worked for eight years in sub-Saharan Africa, including Rwanda and Malawi, where she combined clinical practice with research on infertility in low-resource settings.
Her work led to a PhD focused on the medical and socio-cultural aspects of infertility. Today, she leads the IVF unit at ZOL Hospitals in Genk, continuing her commitment to accessible fertility care while bridging global research insights with clinical expertise in Belgium.
Who is Nathalie Dhont?
Nathalie Dhont was born in Belgium in 1971. She studied medicine in Ghent, after which she completed postgraduate training to become a gynaecologist, spending additional years training in the UK and the Netherlands.
She then lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa for eight years, first in Malawi and then in Rwanda for almost seven years. During this time, she worked as a gynaecologist and technical advisor for several international organisations, including Luxembourg Bilateral Cooperation, EGPAF and Projet Ubuzima. While in Rwanda, she established a research project in collaboration with Ghent University's International Centre for Reproductive Health, the international NGO Projet Ubuzima, and the Kigali University Teaching Hospital. This project aimed to investigate the clinical, epidemiological, and socio-cultural aspects of infertility in countries with limited resources.
The findings were published in numerous articles and culminated in a PhD thesis presented at Ghent University in April 2011. Her supervisor was Marleen Temmerman.
She is currently the head of the IVF unit at ZOL hospitals in Genk. She is married and a mother of three daughters.
