Personal information
Cécile RL Boot is a health scientist and works as senior researcher at the Department of Public and Occupational Health , EMGO Institute, of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. From July 2010 to July 2012, Cécile holds an EMGO+ Quality of Care Fellowship. Since March 2012, she also having a position as Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto, Canada.
Short biography
Since June 2008, Cécile is senior researcher at the Department of Public and Occupational Health at the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research of the VU University Medical Center. Here she is involved in a number of PhD project as supervisor or projectleader in the field of occupational health.
Before she started at the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Cécile studied biomedical health sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen from 1995 to 2000, with a major in human movement sciences and rehabilitation and sports as minors. her professional career started at the Netherlands Expertise Centre for Work-related Respiratory Disorders (Opgelucht Werken), at the University Lung Centre Dekkerswald, in Groesbeek. This centre was affiliated with the Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen. Here she conducted research on determinants of sick leave in workers with asthma and COPD, which resulted in a PhD thesis in 2004.
Between 2004 and 2008, she worked part time at the University of Amsterdam on projects focussing on health and health behaviour of university students. In addition, she was editor and project leader of a book about medicinal effects of water in everyday care, which was published in 2007.
In 2005, she worked on a project at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) about illness perceptions and employment status in patients with a chronic illness.
Between 2006 and 2008, she worked as postdoctoral researcher at the department of Medical Humanities / Metamedica. Here her research focused on health information on the internet and communication of health risks related to early detection of diseases.
EMGO+ Fellowship Quality of Care (2010-2012)
In July 2010, she obtained an EMGO+ Fellowship Quality of Care for two years. She will use the fellowship to investigate determinants of societal participation in patients with chronic disorders. By applying mixed methods, and including the patient perspective I will gain insight into differences and similarities regarding determinatns of success and failure of societal participation in general, and participation in paid work in particular in patients with distinct chronic disorders.
PhD thesis (2004)
Sick leave in asthma and COPD; the role of the disease, adaptation, work, psychosocial factors, and knowledge (2004). Radboud University Nijmegen.