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The Societal Impact Project stimulates students’ autonomous motivation to work on societal relevant problems. One of the topics this year is vaping.

Two researchers from Maastricht University play a key role in translating research into vaccine policy recommendations for COVID-19: Timo Clemens, Associate Professor health policy and governance, and Inge van der Putten, Assistant Professor at the department of Health Services Research.

Latifa Abidi (CAPHRI) strives to reduce health disparities by collaborating with citizens to do research.

Matty Crone researches the interplay between prevention, the neighbourhood, government, and care.

Despite widespread awareness campaigns and well-known prevention strategies, the number of skin cancer cases continues to rise. It is now the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands, particularly among people over the age of 65. According to Caroline Coeckelbergh, alumna of the master’s...

Shika Pai (SHE) researches how to help medical students feel safer and stronger in their identities.

“I hope to show people how to view evaluations not as a tick-box exercise, but as an opportunity for meaningful reflection and growth,” says Carolin Sehlbach, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Research and Development at the Maastricht University Faculty of Health, Medicine and...

PhD candidate Jella van de Laak on how a genetically modified bacterium fights solid cancer tumours at their oxygen-deprived core.

Miranda Schram (CARIM, MHeNs) researches prediabetes, which precedes diabetes type 2.

Emma has always been interested in health in the broadest sense of the term. “Health goes beyond medical research and care. It is shaped by politics, international health organisations, transnational threats such as climate change, and much more.