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Professor of Services Marketing Jenny van Doorn and service robot Pepper

Jenny van Doorn receives NWO grant for project on public service by teams of robots and humans

Datum:19 mei 2023

Professor of Services Marketing Jenny van Doorn has received a grant of € 400,000 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a project on public service by teams consisting of both robots and human employees.

Pitches during the Linelines - CPHEB meetup

Successful meetup between CPHEB and Lifelines

Datum:26 april 2023

The Centre of Public Health in Economics and Business (CPHEB) and Lifelines organized a meetup on the 20th of April at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) to introduce Lifelines to researchers at FEB, to guage interest in working with Lifelines data and to explore potential collaborations, between researchers at FEB and between FEB and Lifelines.

Eelko Huizingh: What kind of healthcare do we want?

Datum:27 januari 2023

With unchanged policy, healthcare will inevitably get stuck. The Dutch population is ageing and healthcare is becoming unaffordable. Steady as we go is not an option, we need to switch gears. Healthcare needs to innovate. But innovating can be done in many different ways, the question is which direction we want go as a society.

The Pursuit of Health: Motivating Healthy Food Choices and Physical Activity

Datum:27 oktober 2022

Health – a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being – is a crucial determinant of people’s happiness. This is something Julia Storch, PhD candidate at FEB’s Marketing department, firmly believes. However, she knows that engaging in health-promoting practices and abstaining from health-preventing behaviors can at times be easier said than done. Her mantra is that when we understand why exactly people struggle to lead a healthy lifestyle, we can come up with interventions to help them overcome possible obstacles. That is why Storch dedicated her PhD research to investigating how consumers can be motivated to implement healthy food choices and physical activity into their daily lives. In this blog article, Storch reflects on the research process and discusses her findings.

Ahmed Skali: QAnon is destructive in the realms of health and politics

Datum:27 september 2022

With his research Assistant Professor Ahmed Skali aims to discover what triggers the rise of destructive social movements (and linked conspiracy theories) that threaten our social and political institutions and what motivates people to participate in these movements. Together with co-authors Ho Fai Chan (Queensland University of Technology), Stephanie Rizio (FEB) and Benno Torgler (Queensland University of Technology), he investigates whether social distancing restrictions are met with conspiratorial backlash, and if so, why, and whether there are public health consequences.

Stefan Pichler: Do not go to work sick

Datum:20 september 2022

In his work, Associate Professor Stefan Pichler focuses on the economic consequences of infectious diseases and is an expert on sick leave. In recent research together with Johanna Catherine Maclean (George Mason University) and Nicolas R. Ziebarth (ZEW Mannheim), Pichler and his co-authors study the coverage, utilization, and welfare effects of mandated sick pay in the US.

Wat kost de coronacrisis Nederland?

Datum:26 januari 2021

English translation below
15 maart 2020; de dag dat Nederland verder op slot ging. Het eenjarig jubileum komt om de hoek kijken. Wat kost de coronacrisis en de coronavaccinatie Nederland? Maarten Postma, hoogleraar Global Health Economics, doet de som.

Nederland verliest zijn verstand

Datum:12 januari 2021

Gerard van den Berg, 30 december 2020
Hoe heeft de Nederlandse regering het in 2020 gedaan in de corona crisis? Tot voor kort best wel verstandig, zou je kunnen zeggen. Hier wellicht een weekje meer of minder zus of zo, en we hadden sneller kunnen testen,...

Regionaal maatwerk, maar hoe dan?

Datum:03 november 2020

English translation below
In de zomer zette het kabinet in op een regionale aanpak van het coronavirus. De bestrijding van de tweede golf zou maatwerk zijn. Hiermee hoopte minister Hugo de Jonge te voorkomen dat er opnieuw verregaande landelijke maatregelen...

AJSPH timecapsule of the first corona wave

Datum:20 oktober 2020

By Jochen Mierau, Scientific Director Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health

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