Sarphati Amsterdam is a unique collaboration between the city of Amsterdam (GGD) and four major Amsterdam research institutions (UvA, Amsterdam UMC, VU, HvA). Sarphati Amsterdam focusses on innovative interdisciplinary research beneficial to preventing non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, effectively and sustainably.
In multidisciplinary teams they are working on solutions in the area of health promotion and healthcare by bringing together research, policy, and practice. At the core of Sarphati Amsterdam is a unique dynamic cohort study, the Sarphati Cohort. Data collection is linked to routine Youth Health Care consultations. Thus making selected care data on growth and development available for research. Additional data is collected through age-specific questionnaires.
Within the Sarphati Cohort research is conducted into the growth and development of Amsterdam children. This concerns children receiving services from Youth Health Care at the Public Health Service of Amsterdam (GGD Amsterdam) and the Amsterdam Health Foundation (SAG) Parent and Child Teams.
During the consultations with the Parent and Child Teams, data is collected about the health and development of children up to 18 years of age. We use this information to provide care. In order to conduct research, explicit parental consent to use some data anonymously for the Sarphati Cohort is requested. The aim of this research is to gain insight into the causes of certain non-communicable diseases including diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular diseases.
You can find more information on the Sarphati cohort study website (in Dutch).
APH contact persons: Joy Hall, Joanne Ujčič-Voortman
Contact: cohort@sarphati.amsterdam