Board

The ARHF is established in the Netherlands.

The board consists of Corrie Hiwat (Dipl. Hom), Geert van der Velde (MPH) and Harry van der Zee (MD).

ARHF board members are volunteers and receive no remuneration or compensation for their services.

Harry van der Zee

Chairman

Harry van der Zee was born in the Netherlands in 1953. After studying medicine in Groningen he specialised in homeopathy, which he practised since 1987.

From 1996-2018 he was editor-in-chief of Homœopathic Links, an international journal for classical homeopathy.
For several years he has lectured at different homeopathy schools in the Netherlands, and in Eastern Europe as member of the Dutch-Indian School.
He developed educational curriculums for academies for complementary medicine in the Netherlands and Nepal.
He has investigated the importance of the birth experience in homeopathic case-taking and published two books on the subject: Miasms in Labour (2000) and Homeopathy for Birth Trauma (2007). This work provides a theoretical basis for understanding the role and purpose of individual and collective diseases in the process of human evolution, a topic he has lectured on in many countries around the world.

Since 2004 Harry has become involved with projects in Africa.

In 2007 he co-founded ARHF after which he stopped his private practice to be fully engaged with setting up a network in sub-Saharan Africa. There he trained many health professionals and volunteers that now independently treat epidemics, trauma and chronic diseases using the PC Resonances provided to them by ARHF.
In 2009 he organised the international conference Homeopathy for Developing Countries to further improve the success of homeopathy in developing countries.
He co-edited and published Peter Chappell’s book The Second Simillimum (2005), and has written several manuals to support ARHF-volunteers in reliably using PC Resonances.
Together with Peter Chappell he wrote Homeopathy for Diseases (2012), a book on how to treat epidemics, trauma and chronic diseases by integrating an individualised approach with a disease-specific approach.
He has produced short documentaries on treating AIDS, Malaria, Diabetes and Trauma due to war, genocide and rape (Africa) and natural catastrophe (Haiti).
Throughout the years he has published many articles on the work in Africa: e.g. on HIV/AIDS (2004, 2008), Africa Malaria Prevention Project (2016, 2018), Sickle Cell Disease (2018).
Harry designed and conducted research into the efficacy of PC1 for HIV/AIDS in Africa, a study that was published 2024. He has initiated an epidemiological outcomes study on the prevention of malaria with PC240m, with data collected over a period of 6 years (2018-2023).

Corrie Hiwat

Secretary

Corrie Hiwat, born in the Netherlands in 1950, has been practicing homeopathy since 1987. She was initially trained as a general and psychiatric nurse. She studied at the Academy for Naturopathy where she obtained a bachelor degree, with the specialization Classical Homeopathy. Later she studied at the Academy for Expression and Communication for which she also obtained a bachelor degree.

Besides treating patients in her practice, she has shared her experience extensively as a teacher.

She trained professionals in the art and skill of non-violent communication and interaction.
She has taught homeopathy in several countries and was one of the teachers of the so-called Dutch-Indian school. A collaboration between the dr. Clemens von Bönninghausen group from Groningen and the dr. Rajan Sankaran group from Mumbai. In that capacity they offered training to the Prague School of Homeopathy.
For many years she was one of the teachers at the School of Homeopathy in the Netherlands where she taught various subjects such as case analysis, theory and methodology of homeopathy, materia medica, Jungian psychology, and attitude and pitfalls of the professional caretaker.
She taught homeopathy in all its various aspects at the University of Durban in South Africa. As a senior clinician, she supervised the students in their clinical training.

In her later years, she returned to studying, obtaining an MD in Religious Science at the University of Groningen. From here on she integrated her work as a homeopath with her work in spiritual care, realizing how both personal belief systems and institutional religion play a major role in the health and disease of her clients and patients. She is still practicing both professions and remains involved in the ever-expanding work of ARHF.

Her interest in Peter Chappell’s work and the treatment of AIDS patients started in 2004 when she, as the co-editor of Homoeopathic Links, witnessed in Malawi the impressive improvement of the patients treated with the PC Resonances.
In 2007 she was co-founder of ARHF.
She has co-edited The Second Simillimum (Peter Chappell 2005) and Homeopathy for Diseases (Chappell & van der Zee 2012).

Geert van der Velde

Treasurer

Geert van der Velde, born in the Netherlands in 1959, has been active in health care in a wide variety of roles and functions ever since 1978.

He has bachelor degrees in nursing, anaesthesia nursing, community and primary healthcare and middle management, as well as a master’s degree in healthcare science. Currently he is working on a PhD for ethics, governance and quality of care.
As a nurse Geert has worked in psychiatric wards, general hospitals, operation theatres, intensive care units as well as home care and community nursing.
Since 1996 he has been active as a staff officer, project manager or adviser for various institutions and organizations. In order to be familiar with all the different aspects of health organizations, Geert has been trained in ICT (information and communication technology), life style medicine, network strategies, NLP (neuro linguistic programming), organizational and family constellations, transactional analysis, financial administration, professional communication, statistics and participation in non-profit organizations.

Geert is especially passionate about creating better health and well-being through proper governance, policy and implementation. Since 2007 he runs his private consultancy agency ‘Qraad’ (Dutch, from ‘Cura ad’, translate as ‘Q-council’) as an independent advisor on strategic policy and healthcare innovation.

As a consultant, he supports people and organizations in setting up processes effectively and efficiently. This can concern the primary process, supporting and management processes, or management issues.
As a Supervisor, the focus is on ‘the intention’, on what the social purpose of the organization is, and how the business processes achieve this. He does that in the role of a countervailing partner.