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Amika Singh Education and key qualifications
 
Human Movement Scientist (MSc)
Epidemiologist (MSc)
Physical therapist (BSc) 

Amika Singh was born in 1974 in Aachen (Germany). In 1992 she finished her higher general secondary education in Ingolstadt and then moved to Utrecht (The Netherlands). After graduating from the Hogeschool van Utrecht, department of Physical Therapy in 1998, she started studying Human Movement Sciences at the VU University of Amsterdam. She received her MSc (mayor Public Health) in 2001.

Amika Singh is working at the Department of Public and Occupational Medicine, at the EMGO+ Institute, VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam since 2002. Amika obtained her PhD for her thesis on the evaluation of the effectiveness of a school-based intervention program aiming at the prevention of obesity in adolescents (DOiT = Dutch Obesity Intervention in Teenagers). 

Since 2007 Amika is working as post-doc researcher at the EMGO Institute. She is investigating the tracking characteristics of biological and lifestyle variables within the AGHALS (Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study). Within this longitudinal study measurements of several health indicators, such as physical growth, lifestyle, and psychological development were performed over a period of more than 30 years. AGAHLS started in 1974 by taking four annual measurements in a sample of over 600 healthy 13-year-old boys and girls. After the original four years, the follow-up was extended to take measurements when the participants were 21-, 27-, 29-, 32-, 36-, and 41 years-old. More information about AGHALS can be found at http://www.emgo.nl/research_infra/amsterdam/index.asp.

Starting in february 2009, Amika is working as project manager of the ENERGY-project (www.projectenergy.eu), a project on the prevention of overweight in 10-12 year olds. Within ENERGY she is coordinating the activities of the all particiapting reserach institutes across Europe.

Amika has teaching responsibilities concerning courses for students in Medicine and Health Sciences, and individual supervision in research training. She is involved in the Erasmus/Socrates program 'Children and Physical Activity - a European Perspective' as a teacher for the subject ‘Physical Activity Intervention Strategies’ since 2002.