CAPHRI Research
CAPHRI is dedicated to high-quality care and public health research, with a passion for driving innovation across the entire spectrum of care, from prevention and primary care to elderly care and rehabilitation.
We are committed to facilitating and supporting researchers, providing the systems and infrastructure needed to conduct impactful research and help them achieve their best work.
CAPHRI Research Lines
CAPHRI's research is structured around six thematic Research Lines (RLs). In each line, multidisciplinary teams of researchers from different discipline-oriented departments collaborate to tackle key challenges
Each RL is led by a Chair and a Vice-Chair, and comprises researchers from various departments. The Research Lines are the lifeblood of CAPHRI, driving our research output and activities.
Ageing and Long-Term Care
We promote resilience in daily functioning of older people, irrespective of their living situation, abilities and place of residence.
Creating Value-Based Health Care
We contribute to the improvement of population health and wellbeing through better health systems, services and products in all areas of the health care chain.
Functioning, Participation and Rehabilitation
We aim to optimize functioning and participation of patients and healthy individuals in their context throughout their lifespan.
Health Inequities and Societal Participation
We study the reduction of inequities and participation in public health to strengthen local and global biosocial ecologies of health.
Optimising Patient Care
We conduct research that enables doctors and public health workers to deliver care and care-related prevention that is optimally suited to every individual.
Promoting Health and Personalised Care
We develop new theories, interventions and research methods to promote health and to promote personalised care involving shared decision-making principles.
CAPHRI Departments
Our research is organized in 11 core Departments (with the majority of the staff being funded by CAPHRI) and at 2 associated Departments.
CAPHRI Living Labs and Centres
CAPHRI has established long-term partnerships with local public health and healthcare institutes in the so-called Living Labs. In these labs CAPHRI researchers work together with care organisations, knowledge institutes, governments, local health councils and citizen representatives in research projects with a joint responsibility for the health and wellbeing of the citizens in our own Euregio Maas-Rijn.
CAPHRI partnerships and collaborations: connecting local and global
Partnerships and collaborations are crucial to our mission of creating a healthy society for everyone. We believe true innovation occurs when diverse people, backgrounds, perspectives, and capabilities meet and converge.
From global to local impact
Successful care and public health research often requires an international perspective. Considering global concepts and results is essential, even for studies focusing on the local level. Therefore, we continuously seek to establish and maintain strong research connections with partners worldwide.
From local excellence to global collaboration
CAPHRI provides a world-class infrastructure and support for care and public health research. Our researchers are internationally acknowledged, which allows us to attract global partners who wish to collaborate for greater impact, efficiency, and knowledge sharing.
ASPHER
CAPHRI participates in the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), a membership organisation of institutions, spread across EU and wider across WHO European Region, which are collectively concerned with the education and training, and professionalism, of those entering and working within the public health workforce.
CAPHRI-chs Collaboration (CCC)
CAPHRI and the Centre for Health and Society (chs, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany) are geographically related and have many common interests in research and education in the field of health, care, public health and society. Therefore, CAPHRI and chs have joined forces within the framework of a formal collaboration agreement.
CAPHRI cohorts
CAPHRI has a long tradition of cohort studies. CAPHRI holds or participates in numerous cohorts, in the field of Cancer, Diabetes, Influenza, Asthma/COPD, Physiotherapy, Musculoskeletal diseases, lifestyle and genetic constitution, diabetes mellitus, Quality of Care, etc.
CAPHRI PhD dissertations and publications
Quality assurance
CAPHRI values the quality of its research and has therefore established a quality assurance system, has a quality officer and offers guidelines for research conduct and auditing. This includes reducing research that does not generate new knowledge (research waste) and establishing procedures to ensure that CAPHRI adheres to the institutional, national and European codes of Research Integrity.