Smarter Choices for Better Health

Sharing our findings with researchers and the public on prevention, value based healthcare, evaluation of healthcare and health equity @ErasmusMC & @ErasmusUni

[Stefan Lipman @StefanLipman]

🚨 Behavioural science PhD vacancy!🚨 Together with @jobvanexel I am hiring a highly motivated PhD candidated to work with us in Rotterdam @ESHPM_EUR @EsCHER_EUR on the role of choice in behavioural interventions. Please share if you can!
https://t.co/qSrhrdJDEb

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

Sign up now for Smarter Choices for Better Health conference on November 30. During this event you will learn about ongoing research on health related topics from both SCBH team members and other projects at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
https://t.co/ugHucB58n0

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

Join us at our symposium on Rethinking Mobility for Healthy and Vital Cities on October 27.
How can we shift towards healthier, safer, and more pleasant urban landscapes? With @FamkeMolenberg, @jobvanexel, @pilargargo and more.
https://t.co/RF7xI0j5f6

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

On November 30 we are organizing a conference, providing an opportunity for our broader community to get together and discuss ongoing research and shared interests. Save the date and submit an abstract now.
https://t.co/ugHucB4Axs

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

The Department of Public Health and Epidemiology of Erasmus MC are hosting WEON2023, the annual conference of the Dutch Society for Epidemiology. The conference will take place from 22 - 23 June 2023. Abstracts can be submitted until March 5th, 2023: https://t.co/ziCSczPAPT

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

Register now for the 2e BUNDLE Congres: Alternatieve Bekostiging in de Zorg. Registration is open until May 29.
https://t.co/7uzpAdbfE2

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

During the early days of the COVID19-pandemic and the sudden lockdowns Carmem Meira Cunha, @nathalie_dens and Georg Granic conducted a study on students' well-being.

Their findings have now come out in a recently published article: https://t.co/ZMPtif68OV

[Stefan Lipman @StefanLipman]

Crossed off podcasting from my bucket list! For my Dutch followers - have a listen at this podcast for new voices in economics, where I talk about my work on health and economics!

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

Our visiting professor @cawley_john is a specialist for the economics of weight or more specifically the economics of thinness.

He has recently been interviewed by The Economist on his research and how wealth is directly connected to weight. https://t.co/jtaQmoLuLb

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

In 2022 @FranciscaVLopes joined the @OECD for an internship on Mental health and disability as part of her PhD. Read this interview in which she talks about this time and how much she enjoyed it: https://t.co/LxrlLIBNoC

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

We are happy to announce that on January 13 at 4PM @hesterlingsma will give her inaugural lecture on Beslissend bewijs (in Dutch). If you cannot join us in the aula at EUR then join us online to follow her lecture: https://t.co/TDdNeAFpTn

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

How much variations exist in clinical outcomes in hospital care, and to what extend are variations driven by hospitals, individual doctors or patients? Read the latest publication on this topic. https://t.co/EFgZh3EUdH

[Francisca Vargas Lopes @FranciscaVLopes]

My second PhD paper was published in October’s issue of Health Economics ! It is a particularly important piece of work to me, scroll down to find why… (1/n)

📃: https://t.co/AIKwDSg3uF
🎧 (in pt): https://t.co/GEFgtn4SVa

cc: @EsCHER_EUR @ErasmusMCPH @ErasmusSCBH @ErasmusESE

[Erasmus MC Public Health @ErasmusMCPH]

Welcome back @FranciscaVLopes ! Looking forward to hearing about your experience at the OECD 🌎!

[Lili Kókai @lili_kokai]

Inspiring opening ‘Hans Bussman lecture’ (honoring @ErasmusMC’s @mzzub) at the @ismpb_org conference in Keystone CO by @HarvardChanSPH’s I-Min Lee - observational cohort studies with long follow-up remain valuable while behavioral monitoring technology progresses at high speed.

[Lili Kókai @lili_kokai]

How can we achieve societal impact? Why and how should we measure it? I summarized the answers of @ErasmusSCBH Action Line leaders and post-docs and Strategy 2024 mid-term reviewers to these (and other) questions in this new blog post: https://t.co/g268LCnnVF

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

@FranciscaVLopes, part of action line Health Equity @ErasmusSCBH will be spending the next months at the @OECD !

We wish her success in this secondment:a great way to gain skills in public policy and generating evidence with societal impact! @ErasmusMCPH @EsCHER_EUR @erasmusuni

[Francisca Vargas Lopes @FranciscaVLopes]

Time flies! Already on the 3rd week of my secondment at @OECD , where I am working on mental health and disability in the context of labour policy. For the next months, this experience will allow me to gain direct experience into shaping public policy and broaden my …1/2

[Smarter Choices for Better Health @ErasmusSCBH]

Editorials and opinion pieces are not only for senior researchers…

Read the views of @FamkeMolenberg and @FranciscaVLopes, both part of @ErasmusSCBH: they reflect on the potential and challenges of studying natural experiments, based on their PhD trajectories !

[Francisca Vargas Lopes @FranciscaVLopes]

Natural experiments offer unique ways to causally evaluate key interventions/policies for the Public Health challenges of our days.

Yet, are we using them as much as we could?

Reflecting on our PhDs @FamkeMolenberg and I share our views on …🧵 (1/4)

https://t.co/ulrTMDBBxw

[Francisca Vargas Lopes @FranciscaVLopes]

From early on in my PhD I have been faced with both the potential and challenges of studying natural experiments! I am certainly not the first or last one …

Together with @FamkeMolenberg we share our views about what could be different, just out in Journal of Global Health👇🏼📢

[Lili Kókai @lili_kokai]

My second publication is available online at
@BioMedCentral Women's Health.

Motivational, volitional, automatic, and environmental factors drive physical activity in women with prior severe preeclampsia.

Read the article here:
https://t.co/v4Sv6WiKXA

#cardiovascular #health