Goof Buijs is the coordinator of the School Programme at the Netherlands Insti- tute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. After obtaining a degree in human nutrition, he worked as a health sciences teacher at the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning in Amsterdam and as a health promotion officer for school health in Amsterdam. Since 1995 he has worked at the Netherlands Insti- tute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, where he is involved in developing and implementing the health-promoting schools strategy in the Netherlands. He developed the healthy schools method in the Netherlands and has been the national ENHPS coordinator since 1997. He will be.