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Jeroen Lakerveld was born in 1978 in Amsterdam. He studied physiotherapy from 1998 to 2002 at the Hogeschool van Utrecht and worked as a physiotherapist at the cardiology ward and the vascular surgery ward of the Medical Centre in Utrecht. In 2003 he started the study Health Sciences at the VU University in Amsterdam, followed by a two year master Public Health Research.
PhD: He just finished his PhD in which he carried out a multi-center randomised controlled trial on the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases using a cognitive behaviour programme aimed at lifestyle changes in adults at risk (please see the Hoorn Prevention Study).
As part of his PhD he visited the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia to study the association of obesity with prospective declines in physical activity in a large population cohort.
Other: He is project leader of a NDF-funded research project focusing on the implementation of environmental changes to improve lifestyle behaviors of low socio-economic neighbourhood residents. He is also involved in a research project that aims to investigate lifestyle behaviours in social networks of people with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and in a research project that explores the role of non-health outcomes to be used in alternative economic evaluations of health promotion programmes.