Memberships
(PAST) MEMBERSHIPS, COMMITTEES AND EDITORSHIPS: • Chair of the management board meeting for the Joint Programming Committee for Health, Food and Diet-related Diseases, The Hague, March 4, 2010
• Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee on midwifery research on behalf of the KNOV (‘Royal Netherlands Organisation for Midwifery’) (2008-2010)
• Chair of the Health Promotion Interventions for Adults Admission sub-committee on behalf of the Netherlands Institute for Public Health and the Environment (2008- )
• International member of the Center Strategy Board of UKCRC Centres of Excellence in Public Health Research, a collaboration between Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside universities, and public sector organisations in the North East UK region
• Member of the obesity committee (2003), the mass-media health education committee (2005-2006), and the committee on the association between obesity prevention and eating disorders (2009-2010) of the Netherlands Health Council
• Member of the ‘Prevention Program Committee’ (2004-2010) and this program’s ‘Effectiveness sub-committee’ (2001-2009), and Vice-chair of the ‘Healthy Nutrition’ program committee (2009-2010) of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development
• Member of the grant panels of the World Cancer Research Fund International (2003-2007) and for epidemiology and prevention of the Netherlands Heart Foundation (2006-2007)
• Member of the supervisory board of the Center for Health Insurance Medicine
• Member of the supervisory board of the Diabetes Care Center West Friesland
• Member for the supervisory board for the Delta Lloyd-EMGO-TNO Quality of Life Occupational Health Promotion project
• Member of the advisory board of the CCA-VICI and MOVE, the cancer and movement sciences research institutes of the VU University Medical Center
• Member of the education committee of the postdoctoral epidemiology training program EPIDEM
• President of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) (2007-2008)
• Chair of the Organizing committee of the ISBNPA 2005 annual meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Chair of the program committee of the ISBNPA 2007 annual meeting, Oslo, Norway
• Member of the Netherlands Society for Epidemiology (2007-)
• Member of the Netherlands Academy for Nutrition Science (2006-)
• Member of the steering committee of the Center for Effective Public Health in the larger Rotterdam area (2005-2006)
• Member of the Netherlands Dietary Habits Research Group (1995-)
• Member of the Scientific advisory board of the Netherlands Center for Doping Issues (Nederlands Centrum voor Doping vraagstukken; 2003-2005)
• Member of the scientific advisory group of the Netherlands Nutrition Center (2003-)
• Member of the innovation platform of the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture (2007-2008)
• Member of the scientific advisory committee of ‘Ik Kies Bewust’, a national logo for ‘healthful’ food products (2007-)
• Member of the selection committees for
• endowed chair on early childhood nutrition (ErasmusMC; Sophia Children’s hospital) (2006)
• endowed chair on social psychological determinants of food choice (Netherlands Nutrition Center) (2006)
• Chair of the selection committee for:
• Professor of end-of-life research, department of Public and Occupational Health, Vumc (2009)
• Professor of Bipolar disorders, department of Psychiatry, VUmc (2009)
• Professor of Methods of longitudinal psychiatric research, department of Psychiatry, VUmc (2009)
• Professor of Clinical dietetics, department of Internal Medicine, VUmc (2010)
• Professor of Occupational Health, department of Public & Occupational Health, VUmc (2010)
• Member of the editorial boards of the Journal Of Nutrition Education and Behavior (until 2010), Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (Editor in chief 2005-2006), Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
• Editor of the Dutch Handbook on Health Education and Health Promotion (Brug et al. Gezondheidsvoorlichting en gedragsverandering: een planmatige aanpak. Assen: Van Gorcum, 2000 [first edition]; 2007 [second edition])
• Reviewer for Preventive Medicine; Annals of Behavioral Medicine; American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Preventive Medicine, European Journal of Public Health; Public Health Nutrition; Health Education Research; Health Education and Behavior; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Psychology and Health; Patient Education and Counseling; European Journal of Clinical Nutrition; Appetite Journal; American Journal of Health Promotion