808 search results for “health society center” in the Staff website
-
Lorentz Medal awarded in Leiden in presence of Minister Dijkgraaf
Within the scope of Leiden European City of Science, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) presented the quadrennial Lorentz Medal to Daan Frenkel in the Academy Building yesterday. The ceremony was in collaboration with the Lorentz Center and was attended by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister…
-
Radio 1 about the consequences of labour migration for the economy and society
The European Commission sees increased labour migration as a solution to the growing personnel shortages, but the Dutch Labour Inspectorate argues that this is not a tenable business model. Professor of Economics Olaf van Vliet discusses the advantages and disadvantages of labour migration for the economy…
-
Autism and Family Health: Stress, Eating Behavior and Health in young Children with ASD and their Parents
PhD defence
-
Carrot or stick: which is better motivation to exercise more?
Free cinema tickets or a step tracker paid for by your health insurance. Some insurers offer rewards to promote healthy behaviour. But does the threat of losing something like a deposit work better? And what do patients think? This is what PhD candidate David de Buisonjé researched.
-
Health research @FSW: Connecting social and behavioral sciences
Conference
-
Engaging society in our research and teaching: what's the status at Leiden University?
You may know it by the umbrella term 'citizen science'. You may also use terms such as volunteer mapping, patient co-researcher, or even community engaged learning to describe participatory practices in your research or teaching. No matter what you call it, there’s plenty going on when it comes to this…
-
receives Comenius grant: 'We must bridge the gap between education and society'
In academia, the mention of Wikipedia might be met with suspicion. However, for Tsolin Nalbantian, university lecturer Modern Middle Eastern Studies, the encyclopedia is an opportunity to broaden the skills of her students and to increase public knowledge. She received a Teaching Comenius Fellowship…
-
Transdisciplinary work is fantastic, but requires dedicated efforts from all sides to understand each other’
Eiko Fried has been appointed professor of Mental Health & Data Science. This combined chair neatly fits the view that understanding complex mental health issues require the integration of statistical methods. ‘The idea that mental health problems are monocausal entities with simple etiologies is no…
-
Roxane de Massol de RebetzFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Christoph Niessen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
-
Santy KouwagamFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
-
Nisida GjoksiFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
-
How AI could give doctors more time at the patient’s bedside
The rise of AI will transform the role of doctors, claims Professor of Intensive Care Medicine Sesmu Arbous. Her academic chair focuses on integrating technology into patient care.
-
Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
-
Ellen van ReulerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Thomas BäckFaculty of Science
-
Akinyinka AkinyoadeAfrika-Studiecentrum
-
Interactive workshop: Women’s Health in the Workplace
Course
-
GGZ-training: Signaling mental health problems in students
Course
-
researcher, my work only becomes truly relevant once it is used in society’
Green cities and a well-protected food system: Roy Remme and Oliver Taherzadeh study ways to achieve these. But how can their scientific findings lead to societal change? They share their experiences with science-policy initiatives.
-
'Public authorities insufficiently aware of obligations arising from freedom of choice of healthcare provider’
Is the right to choose your healthcare provider protected in the Dutch Constitution? What are the consequences then for the Dutch healthcare system? PhD defence on 5 July 2022.
-
Hanna Swaab
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers
Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura i Brugués and health psychologist Liesbeth van Vliet.
-
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga & Louk van Doorn win the DT4REGIONS Ideathon on AI Potential for Preventive Healthcare
eLaw - Center of Law and Digital technologies from Leiden Law School, and the Vascular Surgery Department at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, join forces to explore the use of AI for diabetes and secondary prevention of diabetic foot problems and won a prize for it.
-
From the Spanish flu to Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis: 'Government intervention can have unexpected effects'
From the Spanish Flu during WWI to COVID-19: the role of the American government in these Pandemics. Professor Giles Scott-Smith, who together with Dario Fazzi and Gaetano Di Tommaso completed the book project Public Health and the American State, discusses a century of American responses to health…
-
Yue SoedaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Jard Mattens
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Sabina van der Veen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Gita NadindaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Gijsbert van WilligenAdministration and Central Services
-
Dion Woestenburg
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Hedwig VosFaculty of Medicine
-
Mike SikkinkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Francette BroekmanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Isabelle van HapertFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Matthijs BossongFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Fred van Dam
Administration and Central Services
-
Cherita Jetten-Limonard
Administration and Central Services
-
Juriena de VriesFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Johan den DunnenFaculty of Medicine
-
Bram BoeterFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Renske KrijtFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Anna van Duijnhoven
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Elianne van EgmondFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Rachèl van Hellemondt
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Rosanne Govaarts
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Vibeke Nunnink
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Anne CuperusFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences