Healthy behaviors for all - powered by science
Program support: Joske Nauta
Contact: aph.hbcd@amsterdamumc.nl
Mission and goals
Chronic (non-communicable) diseases -mainly diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer- account for the majority of total disease burden worldwide. These chronic diseases are largely preventable by promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors are shaped by a complex interplay of factors; conditions in which people are born, grow up, live, work, age and individual features. Promoting healthy behaviors requires multifactorial interventions in the complexity of real-life settings. Interventions should both address the environment and the individual, and therefore demand close collaboration between a broad range of disciplines.
The goal of the HB&CD research program is to create, disseminate and exchange knowledge on health-related behaviors and interventions. We focus particularly on the mechanisms shaping these behaviors, their impact on health, and health promotion strategies. In doing so, we aim to reduce the burden of chronic diseases and related functional limitations, and improve quality of life/wellbeing. In line with our motto: "healthy behaviors for all - powered by science", we prioritize groups with a high risk of developing chronic diseases across the life course, including lower socio-economic and ethnic minority groups.
Program Leaders
Research themes
The health behaviors covered within HB&CD include alcohol use, dietary behavior, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep and smoking. The chronic diseases covered within HB&CD include, but are not limited to, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Our research centers around:
- the distribution of health behaviors across the population and changes over time;
- the determinants of health behaviors, including individual, environmental and genomic factors;
- the measurement of health behaviors;
- the impact of health behaviors on chronic diseases and functioning/quality of life/wellbeing;
- the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions promoting healthy behaviors.
There is a strong focus on maximizing the societal relevance of research, and to achieve this we closely collaborate with actors in the public health domain such as the Municipal Health Service in Amsterdam. We aim to apply a participatory approach, involving end-users in the development of interventions and research projects with a strong focus on potential for wider implementation.
Special Interest Groups
Various Special Interest Groups are active within the HB&CD research program. Each of these groups has a different focus, and a brief description of their main objectives is provided below.
Geoscience and Health Cohort Consortium
The Geoscience and Health Cohort Consortium ( GECCO) is a Dutch infrastructure to support researchers to study the relation between environmental characteristics and health. In GECCO, fine-scale objectively measured social and physical environmental data are linked to individual-level data from more than 20 (longitudinal) cohort studies across the Netherlands. GECCO is coordinated by Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, and governed by a steering group with representatives of all the GECCO-affiliated institutes.
Contact: Jeroen Lakerveld: j.lakerveld@amsterdamumc.nl
Participatory Research and Co-creation
This Special Interest Group aims to create an overview of the range of currently used participatory research approaches and methods within HB&CD, and wishes to connect researchers for the promotion of knowledge- and experience exchange. Two main goals of the group are; (1) starting-up a consensus project on terminology, and (2) working on guidelines for conducting and reporting participatory research.
Contact: aph.participatory@amsterdamumc.nl
Systems thinking and public health
This Special Interest Group aims to further build expertise on systems science in public health, which is currently limited, by fostering cooperation between HB&CD researchers on the theory and analytics of the systems science approach. All HB&CD researchers who have an interest in the systems science approach can participate.
Contact: aph.systems@amsterdamumc.nl
Senior program council
The program leaders of the Health Behaviors & Chronic Disease research program chair the HB&CD Senior program council. This senior program council consist of a selection of senior researchers of the research program who meet regularly to implement or update the research program-specific strategy and to discuss anticipatory or reactive response to external events.
Senior program council members | |
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Teatske Altenburg | Bas van den Putte |
Ingeborg Brouwer | Joreintje Mackenbach |
Wilma Waterlander | Mary Nicolaou |
Medior program council
The Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases research program has a medior program council. The aim of the medior program council is to create a group of peers amongst whom medior researchers can hold inter-vision, lectures, or organize workshops about issues particularly relevant to those in their mid-career. The typical medior researcher has obtained a PhD and is already working for some years as a post-doc or assistant professor. But anyone who considers him or herself to be a medior is welcome to join.
Medior program council members | |
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Coosje Dijkstra | Wilma Waterlander |
Femke van Nassau |
Junior program council
The Health Behaviors & Chronic Disease research program has installed a HB&CD Junior program council that provides program leaders with solicited and unsolicited advice and helps them with the organization of research program-specific activities or events.
Junior program council members | |
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Iris Koelmans | Judith Visser |
Thao Minh Lam | Gaia Segantin |
Research program members
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Adria Tunez Aquilue
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Ageeth HofsteengeDR.IR.
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Albertine BaauwDRS.
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Amber BootsMSc
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Amber Koert
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Amber van der HeijdenPhD
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Angie Luna Pinzon
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Anita RavelliDR.
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Anja de KruifDRS.
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Anja Huizinkdr.
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Anne Roos van der Endt
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Annelinde Lettink
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Annemarie Reilingh
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Anouk Driessen
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Anton KunstPROF.DR.
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Ardine de Wit
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Aysu OkbayDR.
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Bagas WicaksonoMD
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Barbara HuttenDR.
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Bedra Horreh
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Berber KapiteinDR.
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Bianca Strooij
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Bibian van der Voorn
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Birhan Ewunu Semagn
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Bonnie van Dongen
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Bram BerntzenDR.
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Bram Hoogerheide
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Brigit C. van Jaarsveld
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Brittany Boerstra
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Bryn Hummel
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C.M.C. Volgenantdr.
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Carry Renders
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Charlotte Nuijten
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Charlotte van TuijnBSc MSc
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Christiaan VisDR.
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Claudia Dictus
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Cor-Jan van der Perk
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D RietveldPhD
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D. Duijsterdr.
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Daniella Brals
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Dawit ErjinoMSC.
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Demi de Jong
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Donna Beerda
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Donny Kreuger
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Eline Faber
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Eline Meuleman
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Elke Vlemincx
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Elly Steenbergen
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Eric Moll van CharanteProf. MD PhD
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Erik BeuneMSc PhD
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Erik van SpronsenDR.
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Esmé Eggink
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Esme Kamphuis
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Eva Leistra
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Eva Sugeng
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Eva van der LindenDR.
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Fawad TajDR.
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Femke RuttersDR. Associate professor, Principal Investigator and Principal Educator
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Femke van NassauDr. DR.
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Fiona Hagenbeek
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Fleur Heuvelman
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Franke Quee
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Frouke Kingma
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Froukje TakensMSC.
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Gaia Segantin
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Giel NijpelsPROF.DR.
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Gillian Schuurman
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Gillroy Fraser
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Gioia Nydia Muru
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Hamideh Jahanbakhsh
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Han KemperPROF.DR.
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Hanan Bozhar
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Hanneke Wijnhoven
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Hans de VriesPROF.DR.
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Haykanush Ohanyan
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Henrike Galenkamp - van der PloegDR.
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Hidde van der PloegPROF.DR.
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Hilde van der AaPhD.
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Ilja ReintenMSc
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Indra Melessen
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Inge de Wolf
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Ingeborg Brouwer
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Ingrid Steenhuis
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Irene van ValkengoedPI PhD
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Irene van ValkengoedPhD
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Iris Koelmans
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Irma Huiberts
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Jaap Seidell
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Jan Karregat
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Jan willem KallewaardDRS.
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Jaro Govaerts
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Jelle Arts
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Jenny Marks-VieveenDRS.
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Jenny Schnyder
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Jentske Wertwijn
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Jeroen Lakerveldj.lakerveld@amsterdamumc.nl DR.
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Jesse van den Berg
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Jesse Vargas
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Johan van Limbergen
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Joline BeulensPROF.DR.IR.
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Jonathan Overeem
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Joreintje MackenbachPI DR.
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Joreintje MackenbachPI DR.
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Jos TwiskPROF.DR.
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Joshua van Apeldoorn
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Josine StuberDR. MSc. DR.
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Joske NautaDR.
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Jouke Jan Hottenga
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Judith JelsmaDr.
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Judith Visser
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Julia Veeger
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Julie Jansen
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Junus van der WalMD
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Karien StronksPROF.DR.
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Katja van den HurkPI DR.
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Katrina MessihaMarie Skłodowska–Curie PhD fellow
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Kim Brand
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Kris Hage
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Kunshan Goh
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Kyra Mendes de Leon
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Lambert Appiah
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Laura Schaap
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Lenka GroeneveldMSC.
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Leto Demetriadou
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Lies ter Beek
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Liffert VogtPROF.DR.
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Linda Dusseljee - Peute
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Lizan Bloemsma
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Loes CrielaardPhD
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Lorraine LandaisPhD
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Lotte de BoerDR.
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Luc Hagenaars
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Lucrezia Bertoni
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M.H. van der Veendr.ir.
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Maarten Barendrecht
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Maartje Basten
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Maartje van Stralen
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Magreet Harskamp-van GinkelMSC.
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Mai Chin A PawPROF.DR.
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Mandy SpaanPhD
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Margreet Olthof
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Mari Sone
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Marieke BlomPhD
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Marieke de GierDRS.
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Marieke Hoevenaar-BlomDR.
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Marjolein VisserPROF.DR.
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Maroucha van den Berg
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Martijn StuiverDR.
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Martijn StuiverDR.
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Martina Pontesilli
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Mary NicolaouPhD
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Mayte Sanchez van Kammen
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MC Adriaanse
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Megan Astley
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Melanie HafdiMD MSc
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Meredith OvermanMSC.
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Mette van der LindenMSC.
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Mink Sjamsoedin
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Mirte KuipersPhD
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Mirthe MuilwijkPhD.
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Mohamed Ahmed
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Monika HollanderDR.
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Monique Albersen
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Monique SteegersPROF.DR.
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Naichuan Sudds.
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Nanda van Rijn
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Nicole den BraverDR. PhD
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Nicole van den Bogerd
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Nikita Hensen
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Nitza HooiMSC.
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Noreen Siddiqui
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Oriol Bonell MonsonísMSC.
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Patrick BrienesseDR.IR.
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Paula Sterkenburg
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Peter HarmsPhD
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Petra EldersPROF.DR.
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Philip DijkhorstDRS.
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R. Weiler
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Rebecca Painter
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Reinoldus GemkePI PROF.DR.
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René Pool
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Renee BolijnMSc
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Renée Coppens
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Renée Wink
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Rixt Smit
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Robin SmitsDR.
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Roderick Slieker
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Romain Meer
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Romy Slebe
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Rosa WoudaMSc
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Sandra KooijProf. PROF.DR.
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Sandra Simons
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Sanne Kremers
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Saskia Boonzajer FlaesMSC.
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Saskia Duijs
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Savannah Troost
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Sharon RemmelzwaalDR.
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Sidney Rubinstein
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Sietske Luijten
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Siham BoucharebDRS.