Yesterday the senior staff of EMGO research institute (see http://www.emgo.nl/) met to discuss plans to reform our institute into a so-called interfaculty research institute. Our mission is to encourage, initiate, conduct, and publish excellent research of international standing to improve public and occupational health, primary care, rehabilitation, and long-term care.
The main challenges in these research fields all require interdisciplinary research, involving medical doctors as well as health scientists, psychologists et cetera. This asks for close collaborations between experts from different university faculties.
Our policy day was focussed on exactly that: what are the strengths, weaknesses, opprtunities and threats related to forming a formal interfaculty research institute, involving the VU University Medical Center (www.VUMC.nl), the Institute for Health Sciences (http://www.falw.vu.nl/Onderzoeksinstituten/index.cfm) of the faculty of earth and life sciences and the faculty of psychology and education (http://www.psy.vu.nl/fpp.php/research/). Other collaborations are with the faculty of Social Sciences (http://english.fsw.vu.nl/home/index.cfm) and the faculty of Law http://www.rechten.vu.nl/).
Important examples of ongoing interfaculty collaboration include the Netherlands Study on Depression and Anxiety NESDA (http://www.nesda.nl/site_en.php) as well as the longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (http://www.lasa-vu.nl/).
The main challenges in these research fields all require interdisciplinary research, involving medical doctors as well as health scientists, psychologists et cetera. This asks for close collaborations between experts from different university faculties.
Our policy day was focussed on exactly that: what are the strengths, weaknesses, opprtunities and threats related to forming a formal interfaculty research institute, involving the VU University Medical Center (www.VUMC.nl), the Institute for Health Sciences (http://www.falw.vu.nl/Onderzoeksinstituten/index.cfm) of the faculty of earth and life sciences and the faculty of psychology and education (http://www.psy.vu.nl/fpp.php/research/). Other collaborations are with the faculty of Social Sciences (http://english.fsw.vu.nl/home/index.cfm) and the faculty of Law http://www.rechten.vu.nl/).
Important examples of ongoing interfaculty collaboration include the Netherlands Study on Depression and Anxiety NESDA (http://www.nesda.nl/site_en.php) as well as the longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (http://www.lasa-vu.nl/).
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