Amsterdam Public Health

Open call 2022 Valorization and Impact projects

At the start of 2022, APH in collaboration with IXA have launched a call for support of valorization and impact projects within the research institute. This resulted in 23 interesting applications, of which three projects have been awarded a grant of € 2500.- complemented with in-kind support from Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA).

The call offers APH researchers and / or research teams the opportunity to take the societal and economic impact of their project or idea a step further through in-cash and in-kind support. The in-cash support, worth € 2500,- can be used for organizing an event, creating promotional material (flyer/video) or other forms that could increase the impact of their project. The in-kind support consists of support from IXA and can take different forms such as conducting a market exploration or advising on the most appropriate route to impact.

@gezondepeutermonden
The national research project Gezonde Peutermonden (Healthy Toddler Mouths) aims to raise awareness of preventive oral care among parents of toddlers. Still 29% of five-year-old children in the Netherlands have tooth decay and 60% of toddlers does not visit the dentist. Through the Instagram account @gezondepeutermonden, the research group wants to spread reliable knowledge about oral care in young children. With the funding from APH, the project group will be able to further develop the content for their platform and make educational materials about oral health more accessible to parents and health professionals.

Ethnographic film in the fight against neglected disease melioidosis
The purpose of this project is to make a film to raise awareness about the tropical infectious disease melioidosis, which is caused by a soil bacterium. Estimates show that 165,000 cases occur annually worldwide, 89,000 of which are fatal. Treatment consists of a months-long course of antibiotics. Due to the lack of microbiological facilities and disease knowledge, many melioidosis patients go unrecognized. With the film, the project group wants to raise awareness of the impact of this disease among healthcare professionals and policy makers (e.g. WHO).

COVID-19 Trauma in Dutch Nursing homes
This project focuses on organizational trauma and the adaptive potential of nursing homes during the hot phase of the COVID-19 crisis. Participant observation and interviews are filmed, capturing the life in the nursing home during the pandemic. With the use of visual methods, we hope to contribute to their process of recovery by offering employees and residents the opportunity to share their stories and make their suffering heard. The funding for this project will be spend to set up an impact campaign and get advice about profiling and communicating the film and research.

Strategic call 2021

In the 2021 and 2020 strategic calls, the grants provide a 50% coverage of the costs as proposed in the budget of the application, to be matched by a non-academic partner, private partner or the applicant’s research department. In the call 2021 APH offered a strategich scheme for the coming years consisting of grants for:

• Postdoc Fellowship (3 fellows of max. €110,000 each, spread over 2 years)
• Embedded PhD (1 PhD candidate of max. €145,000 each, spread over 4 years)

Respectively these grants should: (1) stimulate research contributing to and inspired by one of the new APH' strategisch themes: digitalization, resilience in times of health crises or sustainability; and (2) stimulate societal or economic valorization of our research by supporting and promoting collaboration with private partners.

Strategic call 2020

In the call 2020 APH offered a strategic scheme for the coming years consisting of grants for:

• Implementation Fellowship (2 fellows of max. €80,000 each, spread over 2 years)
• Academic Collaboration Fellowship (1 fellow of max. €80,000, spread over 2 years)
• Embedded PhD (1 PhD candidate of max. €120,000, spread over 4 years)

Respectively these grants should: (1) stimulate research contributing to and inspired by the relatively young field of implementation science; (2) stimulate sustainable collaborations of APH researchers with non-academic partners, such as long-term or public health care organizations, public health authorities or societal stakeholder organizations, and (3) stimulate societal or economic valorization of our research by supporting and promoting collaboration with private partners.