Each APH research program annually awards part of their budget to travel grants among its affiliated researchers. Requirements for funding and the availble budget difffers per research program.
Awardees are asked to write a short travel blog on their experiences abroad:
Societal Participation & Health
At the APH annual meeting 2022, Nina Zipfel was awarded one of the Booster Grants. This grant offered the opportunity to create an engaging animation video, showcasing the objectives of the Value@WORK research project. Value@WORK aims to improve work-focused healthcare by identifying patient-centered work-related outcomes and optimizing communication and collaboration across the work-focused and curative care sectors. Check out the animation via this link!
Methodology
In 2024, Bram Berntzen received a Methodology travel grant to visit Washington State University. The research visit took place from 1 to 31 October, and was highly productive and inspirational. "I thought outside the box, but little did I know, that in such a short time, this much I would grow."
Read more about his visit in the document below.
In 2023, Mathilde Verdam received a Methodology travel grant for a research visit to Prof. Rick Sawatzky and his research group at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). Their collaborative research focusses on the development and evaluation of novel methodologies for equitable people-centered health measurement (EPHM).
Read more about her visit in the document below.
Global Health
Last fall, Sneha Kotian received the APH Booster Grant at the APH annual meeting. This grant enabled her to undertake a field visit in South Africa. Her current case study aims to prioritize population-based antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance, employing data-driven approaches to inform both sub-national and national efforts.
Read more about her visit in the document below.
Aging & later Life
With the help of the travel grant of APH, Isabelle Vullings (PhD Candidate) had
the opportunity to visit the ISPOR Europe conference in Barcelona from 17 – 22 November 2024. During the ISPOR conference she had two poster
presentations.
Read more about her visit in the document below.
Eline Kroeze received the APH Aging & later Life travel grant to attend the International Conference on Integrated Care in Belfast
Read more about her visit in the document below.
Amber Boots received the APH Aging & later Life travel grant to attend the Annual Meeting 'Organization of Human Brain Mapping' in Montréal.
Read more about her visit in the document below.
David Neal received the APH Aging & later Life travel grant to attend the International Psychogeriatric Association conference in Lisbon this year, from 29th June to 2ndJuly.
Read more about his visit in the document below.
Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases
In November 2024 Cédric Middel (postdoctoral researcher at the department of
Epidemiology and Data Science) visited with a travel grant The George Institute for Global Health (UKoffice), The United Kingdom.
Cédric Middel: "My visit to London has been an amazing experience, both academically, as Dr. Pineda and I are planning several additional papers as a result of this visit and I have inspiration for several additional research projects, and culturally, as I have experienced sides of London that were completely new to me, and learned much about what drives and interests me on a personal level. I want to thank APH for providing this opportunity!"
Read more about his visit in the document below.
In 2024, Amy van der Heijden (Assistant professor at the department of Health Sciences, VU University) received a travel grant to visit the Linköping University. With the support of this travel grant, she had the opportunity to collaborate with Professor Sally Wiggins Young during her visit.
Read more about her visit in the document below.
In 2022, Tessa van Deelen (PhD Candidate Amsterdam UMC) received the APH Booster grant at the APH meeting. The price enabled her to attend the Society For Research On Nicotine and Tobacco conference held in the United States.
Read more about her visit and research in the document below.
In 2022, Laura Belmon received a HBCD Travel grant. The research visit was an addition to an existing European project ‘GrowH! Growing up Healthy!’, which aims to promote healthy behaviors among children aged 9 to 12 years old.
Read more about her visit and research in the document below.
Quality of Care
In 2022, QoC awarded Susan Oudbier (PhD Candidate at Together Digital, Amsterdam UMC) a travel grant which allowed her to visit one of the countries that relates to the International Partnership for Health Informatics Education (IPHIE), das Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg. Read more about her visit and research in the document below.
In 2022, QoC awarded Saskia Bogers (PhD candidate Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases at Amsterdam UMC) the travel grant. Bogers visited the academic hospital in Paramaribo, Suriname (AZP) with the aim to support local infectious disease specialists with a research project on the implementation of indicator condition guided testing for HIV in the hospital setting in Paramaribo, Suriname. Read more about her visit and research in the document below.
Personalized Medicine
In 2022 PM awarded Annelieke Muller (PhD candidate, Paediatric Metabolic Diseases at Amsterdam UMC) the travel grant. Muller present her research at the 2023 International Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Research Conference in Washington, D.C., USA. Read more about her visit in the document below.
In 2022 PM awarded Anne Landvreugd (PhD candidate, Biological Psychology at Amsterdam UMC) the travel grant. Landvreugd visited the Behaviour Genetics Association (BGA) Annual Meeting in Murcia, Spain. Read more about her visit in the document below.
In 2022 PM awarded Daphne Boucherie (PhD candidate, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Amsterdam UMC) the travel grant. Boucherie visited the OHBM conference in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Read more about her visit in this news article.
Mental Health
Anouk Verveen received the APH Aging & later Life travel grant to visit an in-person meeting of the Collaborative on Fatigue Following Infection (COFFI) in Oslo, Norway.
Read more about her visit in the document below.
Marketa Ciharova (PhD candidate, Clinical Psychology at VU Amterdam) visited the 11th scientific meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Read more about her visit in this news article.
Erika Kuzminskaite (PhD candidate, Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC) visited the 35th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress in Vienna, Austria. Read more about her visit in the document below.
Elke Elzinga (PhD candidate, Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC and 113 Suicide Prevention) visited the 19th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more about her visit in the document below.
Steffie van der Mey-Baijens (External PhD Candidate) attended the EARA 2024 conference in Limassol, Cyprus. Thanks to this travel grant, she was able to have this wonderfully enriching experience. Read more about her experience in the document below.