Projects
Augmenting healthcare by supporting general practitioners and disclosing health information to patients KU Leuven
This PhD explores, designs, develops and evaluates a suite of information visualization tools for understanding, exploring, explaining and disclosing health information. This toolset is aimed at both general practitioners and patients and is driven by three underlying research goals: augmenting traditional practitioners’ workflows, boosting patient empowerment, and investigating novel opportunities in devices for supporting communication and ...
Policy Research Centre on Sports 2012: sport and health among senior citizens in Flanders. KU Leuven
Strategic Research Programme: Understanding reciprocal neuron-glia interactions in health and disease as a basis for innovative neurological and neuropsychopharmacological therapies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Health issues in developing countries. KU Leuven
This PhD will entail a variety of studies based on health issues and their patterns of occurrence in Africa. Starting off, urbanization and dietary patterns will be analyzed in Tanzania. Firstly, a detailed dataset will be used to ascertain food consumption at the micronutrient level and determine whether diets are healthier and more fulfilling in urban compared to rural areas. Secondly, urbanization will be broken down into various levels in ...
Supporting monitoring and evaluation processes through Outcome Mapping in programmes of reproductive health and Wash (water, sanitation and hygiene) in Ghana. KU Leuven
Investigation of nutritional and/or environmental epigenetic modulators in health and disease. University of Antwerp
Impact evaluation of the development education program of G3W-M3M, SOLIDAGRO, and KIYO: 'mobilizing young people around the right to health, food and children's rights' KU Leuven
This project concerns the implementation of an impact assessment of the ‘Youth Engagement’ component within the development education program of the Consortium G3W-M3M, Solidagro, and KIYO. This impact assessment includes three measurement points: baseline, mid-term review and final measurement. Besides assessing the project’s impact the evaluation also seeks to carry out an in-depth analysis of the programme’s contribution towards this ...
Chemical analysis of organic pollutants in serum and urine in the framework of the Centre for Environment and Health. University of Antwerp
On the use of a combined numerical/experimental approach for dynamic health monitoring of mechatronic systems. KU Leuven
Rotating components and rotating machinery play a key role in the dynamics of several mechatronic system.In the current state-of-the-use, rotating machinery fault detection, diagnosis and identification are usually based on vibration measurements. Unfortunately, In many practical situations, it is not possible to measure directly those system quantities that are more sensitive to the investigated fault, due to lack of space or dedicated ...