Projects
Policy Research Centre (PRC) Environment and Health (3rd Generation 2012-2015) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A healthy environment and life style are acting levels to achieve more healthy life years. Flanders aims towards a sustainable society which is particularly challenging since the region is characterized by an intensive traffic network, high population density, urbanization, important industries and intensive agriculture. A ...
Smartphone crowdsourced medical data for biomedical research: Addressing the ethical, legal and health policy concerns KU Leuven
Smartphone applications for health are being increasingly used as a platform for collecting and sharing large volumes of crowdsourced personal health data for biomedical research and algorithm training. Consumer genetics products are similarly allowing individuals to have direct access to their own genetic data and to share such data with researchers. Using smartphone and genetic data in these ways presents numerous opportunities to expand ...
Policy research center for Welfare, public health and family -UGent Ghent University
the policy research center conducts research clustered in 3 research lines: monitoring of care use and care needs; evaluation of preventive and care interventions and organization of care and policy.
Health-promotion through obesity prevention across Europe: an integrated analysis to support European health policy Ghent University
The present proposal focuses on overweight and obesity as one of the main determinants of loss of healthy life years and of health disparities in Europe. In particular, it focuses on expanding understanding of the key lifestyle factors nutrition and physical activity, which are the major proximal determinants of overweight and obesity. It aims at identifying (I) socio-economic and environmental determinants of these behaviours and (II) ...
Vaccine & Infectious Diseases Excellence in Antwerp: Infectious disease prevention, control and management in a One Health policy context (VAX-IDEA). University of Antwerp
WHO collaborating centre for human resources for health research and policy (BEL-51). KU Leuven
The KU Leuven WHO Collaboration Centre on Human Resources in Health Research and Policy has the task to support WHO’s work with the member states towards translating health workforce research into policy development and implementation. The aim of the coordination action for the KU Leuven WHO CC on Human Resources in Health Research and Policy is to adopt the role as coordinating centre on nursing and midwifery health workforce. This is a ...
Policy Research Centre Well-being, Public Health and Family 2016 - 2021 KU Leuven
The Policy Research Centre Well-Being, Public Health, and Family 2016-2021 (SWVG), an initiative of the Flemish Government, is a multidisciplinary consortium of the University of Leuven, the University of Ghent, the Free University of Brussels and the University of Antwerp. Partners are: the University of Hasselt and the following university colleges: Thomas More, Artveldehogeschool, Hogeschool Gent, and UC Leuven-Limburg.
The Policy ...