Aletta Research Meet-up 5 November 2019

On 5 November 2019 at the Zernike Campus in Groningen, researchers and public health professionals came together to focus on the topic 'Raising a Healthy Generation'; children's health was the core topic of the day.

Overview of the day:

2 keynote lectures
- Gerard van den Berg: Using the migrating siblings design to identify sensitive childhood ages for adult health and education
- Henderien Steenbeek: Challenging Curious Minds in education: a developmental perspective on children’s healthy upbringing

Gerard van den Berg - Using migrating siblings design to identify sensitive childhood ages for adult health and education

Henderien Steenbeek - Challenging Curious Minds in education: a developmental perspective on children's healthy upbringing

Morning session of 3 parallel seminars/workshops:
- Seminar: Intergenerational transmissions
- Seminar: Mental Health
- Workshop with GGD Fryslân: Alcohol and the society

Seminar Jennifer Klop-Richards - The role of parents in resilience development

Seminar Tobias Vogt - Integenerational resource sharing and mortality in a global perspective

Seminar Petter Lundborg - Integenerational transmission of human capital

Seminar Dennis Raven - Where's the need? The use of specialist mental health services in adolescence and young adulthood

Seminar Roel Freriks - Education policies, test scores and mental health: impact on disadvantaged pupils?

Seminar Frederike Jörg - Children of parents with mental health problems: promoting a healthy social-emotional development

Workshop Fabian Schurink (GGD Fryslân) - Alcohol use and society: how do we make the desired culture change around alcohol happen?

Matchmaking session - based on grant calls topics

Matchmaking

Afternoon session of 3 parallel seminars/workshops:
- Seminar: The social context
- Seminar: The built and the body
- Workshop with children: stress

Seminar Cor Wagenaar - The city as a playground

Seminar René Veenstra - Social networks and social norms in an era of individualization

Seminar Jolanda Jetten - Unlocking the social cure: how group memberships are key to health and well-being

Seminar Remo Mombarg - Physical environment and health. School-based health interventions: 4 years experience

Seminar Esther Hartman - Healthy and active children at school: evaluation of recent interventions

Workshop Frederike Jörg (UMCG) - Talking with youth about stress

Aletta Scientific Council members presenting on the day:

Gerard van den Berg - keynote lecture
University of Bristol, UK
chair of Aletta Scientific Council

Jolanda Jetten
The University of Queensland
Australia

Ilona Koupil
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden

Petter Lundborg
Lund University
Sweden