At the general meeting of the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research (see next message on this Blog!) on Wednesday April 22, the EMGO+ awards were announced. The EMGO+ Science Award for the best paper of a junior researcher was for Petronella van ‘t Veer-Tazelaar for her paper in Archives of General Psychiatry, entitled Stepped-Care Prevention of Anxiety and Depression in Late Life. This study, published in one of the highest ranked journals in the field, indicated that stepped-care intervention is effective in prevention of onset of anxiety and depression among elderly individuals.
The EMGO+ Societal Impact Award was awarded to Nannah Tak for her work on the evaluation of fruit and vegetable schemes in primary schools. Her studies, based on the ‘Schoolgruiten’ and ‘Pro Children’ projects. Showed that school-based interventions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption among school-aged children consisting of free school fruits and vegetables and a nutrition education curriculum are indeed associated with higher intakes, and such interventions are cost-effective. Her studies have received much media attention. Based on these studies and other studies in the field, the European Commission has decided to support school fruit and vegetable schemes throughout the European Union.
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