Projects
to be started:
1. With a grant from the STW-Philips partnership and in collaboration with artificial intelligence department from the VU: Active2Gether - Smart coaching strategies that integrate social networks and modern technology to empower young people to be physically active
Ongoing:
2. ENERGY - European energy balance research to prevent excessive weight gain among youth: theory and evidence-based development and validation of an intervention to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity
see project page here
3. ToyBox - multifactorial evidence based approach using behavioural models in understanding and promoting fun, healhty food, play and policy for the prevention of obesity in early childhood
4. MeMo - Identification of mediators and moderators of school-based interventions aimed at improving energy balance behaviours in youth by conducting secondary analysis.
see project page here
5. MeMo International - exchange program between researches from Deakin, Melbourne and FHM, Lisbon on the topic of mediation and moderation analyses
see website here
6. Development of a tailored interactive-technology education program for hospitalized heart failure (collaboration with Philips)
Closed, but data still in use
7. Genes and environment in obesogenic behaviour: Exploring the relative importance of environmental and genetic factors on sedentary behaviour and sleep duration during adolescence – a study in adolescent twins
8. Pro Greens: Promotion of fruit and vegetable consumption of school children
see project page here.
9. Exploring the pathways between environmental and individual factors in the explanation of overweight and obesogenic behaviours
see project page here
10. SchoolGruiten: A project to promote fruit and vegetables among Dutch primary schoolchildren
see project page here
11. Pro Children: Effect of a multi component school based intervention aimed at changing fruit and vegetable consumption in children on the intake levels of the pupils’ mothers.
see project page here
12. The role of dairy intake during adolescence on adult health – the Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study