A warm welcome to Silvia Evers as our new scientific director! She succeeds Maurice Zeegers as of 1 November.
Silvia Evers is appointed for a period of 6 years. In addition to her role as Scientific Director of CAPHRI, she continues to work at the department of Health Services Research, as Professor of Public Health Technology Assessment and is she affiliated with the Trimbos Institute.
Get to know more about Silvia and read the interview with her and Maurice.
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Aggie Paulus new chair of Creating Value-Based Health Care
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As of 1 November 2021 Aggie Paulus will be chair of the Research Line Creating Value-Based Health Care. Aggie is Professor of Economics of Education and Healthcare at the Department of Health Services Research. She replaces Silvia Evers, who is now Scientific Director of CAPHRI.
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CAPHRI-chs Düsseldorf Collaboration Day
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CAPHRI and the Centre for Health and Society (chs, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany) are geographically related and have many common interests in research and education in the field of health, care, public health and society. Various collaborations have already been implemented in recent years both at individual and organisational level.
CAPHRI and chs intend to continue and consolidate their joint initiatives, as well as to explore possibilities for new initiatives in the area of research and education, within the framework of a formal collaboration agreement.
The CAPHRI-chs collaboration was officially launched in Düsseldorf on 22 September. During this day 33 CAPHRI and chs researchers had the opportunity to meet each other and brainstorm about possible collaborative projects and initiatives within the following working groups:
- Primary care and health services research
- Health technology assessment and health economic evaluation
- Health promotion
- Ethics and society
- MSc and PhD education
Read more and find out how you can join one of the working groups.
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Catharina Pijls Prize for Floor van den Brand
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Floor van den Brand (Optimising Patient Care) has won the Catharina Pijls Dissertation Prize 2021 for her excellent health science research. Floor obtained her doctoral degree in October 2020 for research on Financial incentives for smoking cessation. The prize, worth 10,000 euros, is awarded every two years. Nominations are assessed on their multidisciplinary character, scholarly quality, level of innovation and societal relevance, as well as the candidate's contribution beyond the dissertation itself. The prize will be awarded to Floor prior to the Catharina Pijls lecture on 18 November 2021, for which you can register here.
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Cum laude for Cindy van den Berg-Verberkt
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Congratulations to Cindy van den Berg-Verberkt (Ageing and Long-Term Care) who obtained her PhD cum laude for her research on chronic breathlessness in COPD; and the effects of low-dose oral morphine.
Read her full thesis here.
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Towards inclusive research at Maastricht University: survey results & video
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Inclusive research is important to enhance the quality and the societal relevance of our research. Researchers from Maastricht University, Maastricht for Everybody and IVO Research Institute examined inclusive research practices, barriers, and needs among Maastricht University research staff and made a video about inclusive research.
Read more about the results and watch the video
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New approach is needed in the fight against chlamydia
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Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the Netherlands, caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis (CT). The study FemCure is a multicenter observational study following 560 Chlamydia infected women, carried out in the Academic Workplace Public Health by the Municipal Health Services of South-Limburg, Rotterdam-Rijnmond and Amsterdam and the Department of Medical Microbiology of Maastricht University, funded by ZonMW.
Nicole Dukers-Muijrers (Health Inequities and Societal Participation) is projectleader of the study and knows everything about chlamydia and the controversies in combating it.
Read more about Nicole's work
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Webinar New developments in pain rehabilitation
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On 19 October the webinar 'New developments in pain rehabilitation' of the Pain and Rehabilitation Expertise Centre took place. 300 healthcare professionals from primary, secondary or third-line healthcare, scientists and other interested parties watched. This webinar was organised by the Living Lab Rehabilitation Limburg, a cooperation between Maastricht University /CAPHRI and Adelante.
You can watch the webinar (in Dutch) here.
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New guidelines to improve reporting standards of studies that aim to understand causal mechanisms
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A new guideline has been developed to help scientists publish their research accurately and transparently. The AGReMA Statement provides recommendations for researchers who want to describe mediation analysis in their paper. Mediation analysis is primarily used to understand how an intervention works or why it does not.
The checklists can be found on the AGReMA website and the explanation and elaboration paper in JAMA explains the importance of each item and how the checklist can be used by authors, peer reviewers and journal editors.
Ludo van Amelsvoort (Functioning, Participation and Rehabilitation) was involved in the development AGReMA.
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Webinar: How can employers help their employees to quit smoking?
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Employers will learn how to start an one-on-one conversation with their employees about quitting smoking by participating in an interactive webinar within the project 'Stop Smoking: Stronger Together'. The webinar (in Dutch) is organised by CAPHRI (Promoting Health and Personalised care / Optimising Patient Care), Research Institute IVO and Pharos.
Date: 16 November 2021 Where: online More information and registration: here
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Online meeting on mentorship programmes for young people
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