Dr Annemarie Koster appointed member of Health Council Committee
On 13 May 2016, Dr Annemarie Koster (Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine) was installed by the Health Council of the Netherlands as a member of the committee that will develop the new Dutch physical activity guidelines on behalf of the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport.
The new guidelines will be released in 2017 and will replace the current Dutch guidelines for physical activity that were released in 1998.
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