The health and wellbeing of an individual is the result of a complicated interplay of factors.
Everyone comes into the world with a unique combination of genetically determined chances and risks.
Depending on the situation and lifestyle of an individual, these chances and risks can lead to a more or less healthy and active life.
This process, which covers the entire life course, starts before conception with the circumstances and lifestyle of the parents who pass on their genes.
In short,
the influences that determine someone’s life course vary ‘from cell to society’.
Our research concentrates on the complete range of influences as well as their interrelatedness.
It goes without saying that the various domains must be researched together.
The University of Groningen and the UMCG conduct research from various angles in order to achieve innovation in prevention, care and treatment.
Researchers often work together with colleagues from other faculties and with partners at regional, national and international levels in multidisciplinary projects.
The North of the Netherlands is a testing ground that can serve as an example for regions in the rest of the Netherlands and Europe, and for other countries struggling with the same issues.
