APH awarded 10 APH Booster Grants with a value of max. € 2.500,- to junior and mid-career APH researchers at this year’s Annual Meeting. At the end of the conference day, 10 winners were selected based on random selection.

APH Booster Award winners

Jakob Laurens Schroevers - Strengthening international collaboration: attending the European Public Health Conference 2022 in Berlin, Germany

Harm Gijsbers - Hospital at Home conference in Barcelona, Spain: It's a small step for a PhD, but a giant leap for my personal development

Roxanne Assies - Point of care ultrasound; the new stethoscope? Attending conference in Malawi, East Africa

Sneha Kotian - International field visit to University of Witwatersrand in South Africa - Network Research Group

Tessa R.D. van Deelen - Presentation at intercontinental conference on nicotine and tobacco research in San Antonio, Texas, USA

Shanna van Trigt - Attending the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies Congress 2023 in Antalya, Turkey

Siham Azahaf - Promoting international collaboration on Breast Implant Illness with a visit to Canada

Daan Toben - Getting ahead with SQL database management courses

Mariska de Wit - Learning more about psychosocial work characteristics now and in the future, by participating in the Niva course in Oslo, Norway and visiting a conference in Marrakesh, Morocco

Nina Zipfel - Creating a network for work-focused healthcare: The Value@WORK network. Development of an animation video.

APH Booster Grant nominee list

Abdullah Khawar - Following the SHE Course; Critical Choices in Qualitative Research

Amber Zegers - Throwing off the shackles of speech anxiety with a course and conference attendance in Milan, Italy

Amir Hossein Alizadeh Bahmani - Taking multiple courses on transferable or academic skills

Ana Sofia Carvalho - Boost my knowledge and network at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in USA

Anne Landvreugd - Setting up a broad international well-being network by attending the World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association in Canada

Anne Lubbe - Quality improvement in geriatric rehabilitation from the patient persective - A BOOST for the implementation with a professional video

Annemarie Reilingh - CVD risk reduction after complicated pregnancy: A Patient Journey. Following the e-learning Design in Healthcare: using Patient Journey Mapping and visit Dr. McCarthy at Cork University, Ireland

Annemieke Witte - An early-career researcher going to Finland: a booster plan for a work visit and conference attendance in Finland

Anouk Verveen - Towards a better understanding of persistent fatigue and concentration problems after COVID-19 by attending the 33rd ECCMID in Copenhagen

Arja Rydin - Visiting the Society of Biological Psychiatry conference in San Diego, USA

Bart Cillekens - International research visit to a network partner in Copenhagen

Bo Schouten - Artificial Intelligence Boost by following multiple courses

Bodine Gonggrijp - Attending the International Statistical Genetics workshop 2023 in Colorado

Camille Souama - Attending a course in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Carlien Straat - Visiting the World Congress on Osteoarthritis in Denver, Colorado, USA

Daan Toben - Getting ahead with SQL database management courses

Donna Beerda - Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: speaking at a conference in Canada!

Donny Kreuger - BAR booster plan: following UX-design courses and further develop a digitalized BAR-instrument

Dr. Judith ter Schure - Writing course to improve skills for statistics explainers for doctors in NtvG journal

Elisabeth Kurpershoek - Micro-analysis on breaking the bad news: a detailed description of a impactful moment during diagnostic consultations regarding Parkinsons’ disease: work visit to the Akerhus University in Oslo, Norway

Elmi Zwaan - Enhancing interprofessional participation and social connectedness in a pilot training for occupational healthcare professionals

Esmée Oude Geerdink - Scandinavian' Network Visits to Norway, Denmark and Sweden

Eva Bolt - Becoming a qualitative researcher by attending two EpidM courses

Eva van der Linden - Boost epigenetic research in sub-Sarahan African populations by presenting at the International Congress of Human Genetics in Capetown, South Africa

Felicia Los - Visiting two conferences in Morocco and Sweden to share final results on the implementation of workers' health surveillance

Felix Chilunga - Advancing personalized medicine through equity in genomics by presenting at the International Congress of Human Genetics in Capetown, South Africa

Fenna van Ommen - Combining a work visit to Denmark with a symposium at a conference in Milan, Italy

Fenne Wouters - Improvements on pharmacological knowledge and analyses by attending the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) congress in Portugal and following 'Data analyses in R' course

Fiona A. Hagenbeek - Facilitating integrative multi-omics studies in international collaborations: work visits to Finland

Fiorella Huijgens - A two week research visit including a conference at the University of Oslo, Norway

Gary Yeung - Improving my interdisciplinary skills in health informatics by following two courses of the Health Informatics master

Gian Hernandez - International Communication Association conference attendance in Toronto, Canada

Gioia Muru - Knowledge dessimination of the Combined Lifestyle Intervention: attending ISBNPA conference in Uppsala, Sweden

Giovanni Cinà - Boosting connection to research field with research visits in Europe and attending (online) conferences

Hafize Demirci - Visiting the ' Virtual Medicine Conference' - Where Medicine Meets the Metaverse, in Los Angeles, USA

Hanne Sponselee - Visiting the European Public Health Conference in Berlin, Germany

Harm Gijsbers - Hospital at Home conference in Barcelona, Spain: It's a small step for a PhD, but a giant leap for my personal development

Hekmat Alrouh - Enhancing exposure to international scientific community in an educational setting by attending the International Statistical Genetics Workshop in Colorado, United States

Hieke Barends - Boosting my interdisciplinary symptom research ideas and network by visiting SymPCa 2023 in Tromsø, Norway

Inge de Wolf - Boosting my PhD by attending the ISBNPA conference in Uppsala, Sweden

Jael van Bentum - PhD and Beyond: Boosting my research network by attending the World Congress of CBT 2023 in Seoul, Korea

Jakob Laurens Schroevers - Strengthening international collaboration: attending the European Public Health Conference 2022 in Berlin, Germany

Jana Runze - Presenting at the European Conference of Developmental Psychology in Finland

Jelmer Savelkoel - Visit to Suriname to provide the first Surinamese melioidosis workshop

Jiska Embaye - E-Mental Health and the digital divide: challenges and solutions. Work visit to University of Southampton, England

Joël Zwiep - Learning more about immunometabolics by following two (online) courses and attending a conference in Spain

Joost Gülpen - Fascinating Seoul: Presenting my work at the 10th World CBT Congress in South Korea

Josephine Lindhout - Strengthening international collaboration: attending the European Public Health Conference 2022 in Berlin, Germany

Joshua van Apeldoorn - Strengthening international collaboration: attending the European Public Health Conference 2022 in Berlin, Germany

Julien Vos - Attending conference MASCC in Japan to improve the continuity of palliative cancer care; use of a shared video-consultation

Laura Belmon - Advocating for sleep @ ISBNPA in Uppsala, Sweden

Laura Kalkman - Boosting my skills to improve diagnosis in low-resource settings: point-of-care ultrasound. Attending a course and work visit to Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon, Central Africa

Leah S. Wilk - Developing the global impact of a novel method to measure the time since death. Attendeing the 23rd Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences in Sydney, Australia

Leonie Visser & Tanja de Rijke - Public involvement in research on Alzheimer's disease: following courses and attending the AAIC conference in Amsterdam

Lianne de Vries - Attendence conference International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) in Canada

Lieke Noij - Combining European efforts to establish personalized medical care for children with asthma: work visit to Brighton and Sussex medical school

Lima Emal - Opportunity to learn from (international) scientists: visiting two conferences in Philladelphia and Washington, USA

Liping Wang - Capture and boost cardiovascular falls prevention PhD project: attending a conference in Finland and following the System Dynamic Modeling training

Lise Swinkels - The final push towards my PhD: visiting research groups in New Zealand

Lotta Seppala - Visiting postdoc researcher in Ghent University, Belgium

Lukas De Clercq - ICML 2023 Attendance in Hawaii

Mahmoud Ibrahim - Attend the 21st Lung Sciences Conference in Portugal themed: long-COVID – from basic immunology to clinical phenotypes and therapy

Malene van Schaik - CURA: Big in Japan, visit Professor Kenji Hattori from Gunma University Hospital

Malindi van der Mheen - Presenting DREAMS (N=71,119) at the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Copenhagen, Denmark

Malon Van den Hof - To boost my presentation skills with a 1 on 1 full-day presentation training by De Trainingsstudio

Mana Nasori - Patient participation in research course

Manon Rouche - Attending and networking at top nutrition conferences (ISBNPA and ECN FENS) in Sweden and Serbia

Manon Veldman - What are the working mechanisms of E-nergEYEze, a blended vision-specific E-health based cognitive behavioral & self-management intervention to reduce fatigue in visually impaired adults? Following the EpidM mediaton analyses course

Mara de Visser - A 4-day writing retreat at the Veluwe, The Netherlands

Margarita Ravinskaya - Promoting the use of a Core Outcome Set for Work Participation: attending the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Sydney, Australia

Marieke ter Wee - Boosting international collaboration on life course determinants of health and work participation: the Northern experience. Work visit to the University of Oulu in Finland

Marije Hagendijk - Participate in The Value-Based Health Care Intensive Seminar at the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA

Mariska de Wit - Learning more about psychosocial work characteristics now and in the future, by participating in the Niva course in Oslo, Norway and visiting a conference in Marrakesh, Morocco

Marketa Ciharova - Expanding digital mental health research network through research stay at the Black Dog Institute in Sydney

Marlinde van Dijk - Writing retreat for the LOFIT team to strenghten collaboration with stakeholders

Martijn Brands - To develop and spread the word: a national, open-source, white-label digital personal health record that will aid patient empowerment and shared-decision making: conference attendance in Malaysia and following a course of the Master Health Informatics"

Masha Zee - Visiting European Universities in Norway and Belgium that also conduct the CO-LIVE study

Mathilde Verdam - Impact of response shift on change in patient-reported outcome measures: work visit to Canada

Meagan Doppegieter - Shut up and listen: real networking and socializing. Following a 4-day intensive training in provocative therapy, attending the MindValley conference and providing workshops

Mees Baartmans - Boost my network, knowledge and practical skills in Human Factors principles to acccelerate uptake in patient safety and quality of care research and practice by means of a work visit to the Monash University, Australia

Melanie de Looper - Sharing outcomes during the DCHC conference and research visit at George Mason University in Virginia, USA

Melanie de Wit - Building my network at the International Society of Autism Research Annual Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden

Michiel A. Greidanus - Participate in a coaching program to boost project leader skills and career path

Milou Sep - International work visit to Grady Trauma Project and symposium presentation at ISTSS in Atlanta, USA

Mireille Dekker - Work visit to professor Per Nilsen at Linkoping University in Sweden

Mirte A.G. Kuipers - Organizing two multidisciplinary meetings on smoking cessation in Amsterdam

Mirthe Klein Haneveld - Education in epidemiological methods by following two EpidM courses

Mirthe Muilwijk - Dissemination Hoorn Studies through videos

Monique Alblas - Research visit & collaboration at the University of Salzburg, Austria

Müge Kücükaksu - E83Mügi goes UK: work visit to University of York, England

Naomi van der Velden - Let the world know! Bringing scientific results into clinical practice by creating an animation

Nathanja van Moppes - Enhancing DEI for the learning climate at the Dutch GP-specialty training institutes - a participatory action research

Nicole Billingy - Boost the knowledge of improving lung cancer patients’ quality of life and survival through digital health: spreading the word about the results of the SYMPRO-Lung trial at a conference

Nicole den Braver - ISBNPA conference and network event in Uppsula, Sweden

Nicole Goedhart - Doing eHealth right: cross-border collaboration in the digital health and equity space. Work visit to dr. Ibukun Abeijrinde at the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Canada

Nida Gizem Yilmaz - Boosting my carreer as a new assistant professor by attending a conference and two courses

Nina Zipfel - Creating a network for work-focused healthcare: The Value@WORK network. Development of an animation video.

Patrick Witvliet - International collaboration: attending the 2023 European Forum on Prevention and Primary Care

Peter P. Harms - Visiting Denmark to boost my health data science skills!: an innovative precision prognostic study on nationwide real world registry data

Rachel Murphy - Boosting understanding of natural language processing in medicine by attending the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Slovenia

Rianne van de Weitgraven - Let's play together: work visit to Elian Fink and her colleagues at the University of Sussex, United Kindom

Rik van Eekelen - Strengthening our expertise in advanced causal inference methods: attending two conferences in Norway and Italy

Roxanne Assies - Point of care ultrasound; the new stethoscope? Attending conference in Malawi, East Africa

Sarah Vreijling - Attendance 2023 Society of Biological Psychiatry annual meeting, San Diego, US

Sebastiaan L. van der Storm - Presenting work on PhD 'Mobile applications in colorectal surgery' at two conferences in Denmark and Italy

Selim Sametoglu - NLP Boost: Improving my skills and expanding my network with a work visit and course at Standford University, USA

Shanna van Trigt - Attending the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies Congress 2023 in Antalya, Turkey

Siham Azahaf - Promoting international collaboration on Breast Implant Illness with a visit to Canada

Simone Burger - Boosting my network at the 10th World Congress of CBT, in Seoul, Korea

Sneha Kotian - International field visit to University of Witwatersrand in South Africa - Network Research Group

Sofiya Abedali - All about vitality - workshops and conversations at three medical centers

Sophie Renckens - Work visit to Ghent University, Belgium in combination with the course 'Show, don't tell: Creating visuals about your research'

Stefan Smorenburg - Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm sac dynamics evaluation with advanced imaging and deep learning techniques. Workvisit to Harvard University, Boston, USA

Sulayman el Mathari - CoronaryVR: a virtual reality tool for preoperative planning in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Susan Oudbier - Patient evaluation of digital tools: do we speak the same language? Work visits to the University of Heidelberg in Germany

Susanne Arends - Work visit to professor Lynn Gallagher and "beautiful" Columbus, Ohio

Susanne Bruins - Methodological development in behavioral genetics: attending the Behavioral Genetics Association Meeting 2023 in Spain

Tara Boute - Attending the 18th Biennial European Conference of the Society of Medical Decision Making in Berlin, Germany

Tarik Lachkar - See Do Teach: attending the vMed23 conference in Los Angeles, USA

Taymara Abreu - Research visit to Prof. Robert J. Sampson at Harvard University, USA

Tessa Bergman - International work visit to the Swiss research group Palliative Care and End of Life in Bern, Switserland

Tessa R.D. van Deelen - Presentation at intercontinental conference on nicotine and tobacco research in San Antonio, Texas, USA

Thao Minh Lam - From Amsterdam to Singapore: studying obesogenic urban landscapes

Tim Michael Feenstra - Futureproofing surgical education by learning from specialists in Toronto, Canada

Yasaman Vali - Following the (online) Level 2: Guideline Methodologist course

Yvonne Noteboom - Following the international economic evaluation course at the University of Oxford, England

Yvonne van Zaanen - Visiting the 2023 World congress on Osteoarthritis (OsteoArthritis Research Society International) in Denver, Colorado, USA