MEFAB study group
MEFAB study group
Marij Gielen
Daily manager
Maurice Zeegers
Roger Godschalk
MEFAB collaboration group
Epidemiology Maastricht University
The mission of the Department of Epidemiology of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, is to improve human health and well-being through epidemiologic research and teaching.
The KOALA birth cohort
KOALA is a prospective study, with follow up from pregnancy into young adulthood, on environmental and lifestyle factors influencing childhood health outcome.
LucKi
In LucKi-Gut we study determinants of child’s gut microbiota development in early life and the influence of gut microbial composition on health outcomes.
Expect
We developed and evaluated the Expect Calculator: an early-pregnancy tool for the midwife and gynecologist to assess risks of pregnancy complications.
Open University
Dr. Esmee Bijnens
Prof.dr. Renate de Groot
Dr. Inge van der Wurff
Collaboration policy
Collaboration can enhance research productivity. The MEFAB study group welcomes initiatives from external investigators or research groups who want to use the MEFAB data for specific research questions.
We ask from interested investigators to present a research proposal to the core group of MEFAB investigators. Given that research in MEFAB is ongoing, this approach ensures that we avoid scientific overlap between projects. The MEFAB study group, which meets once per month, then approves the proposal plan or requests changes before approval or rejects proposals on very rare occasions. Once the research proposal is approved, our data manager prepares and provides anonymized datasets with the variables required for analysis.
An overview of available information in MEFAB can be found in Data Inventory.