This summer the 2008 annual report (click here for a pdf of the report) of the EMGO Institute was finalised. The print report has been distributed over the last weeks, i.e. right after the summer break, and additional statistics have been published on our website. This annual report is the last one concerning the ‘old’ EMGO Institute, because from January 2009 we are the EMGO Institute for Health and care Research, or EMGO+.
The annual report shows that EMGO is going strong. This annual report proofs that the EMGO staff has again realized significant and meaningful scientific output, as indicated by a the 463 publications in international scientific international journals, a stable high citation score, and success in acquiring new grants that will enable further research in the years to come. EMGO welcomed four new full professors in 2008, with chairs in General Practice, Physical Activity and Health in Older Persons, Health Promotion and Health Policy and Participation of Patients in General Health Care, and we helped to get 36 PhD students to complete and defend their theses.
The fact that this was achieved in a year in which we intensively prepared for a major life-event in the history of the EMGO Institute, is, I believe, an indication of the strength and rigor of the institute. As said, in 2009 our institute will transfer into the interfaculty EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, or ‘EMGO+’ in short. This new institute is an ‘interfaculty’ research institute because it will bring researchers from three faculties together, aiming to further improve public and occupational health, primary care, rehabilitation and long-term care, by means of multi and interdisciplinary research.
This 2008 annual report shows that we can give EMGO+ a good start.
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