APH each year reserves budget to support, mostly junior and mid-career, researchers to travel to an international congress, symposium or to visit a research group abroad. The research programs aim to invest in talent development of early career researchers by providing this opportunity. Goals are to share knowledge internationally and to increase the academic network of junior and mid-career researchers.
Each APH research program annually awards part of their budget to work visit grants among its affiliated researchers. Requirements for funding and the availble budget difffers per research program. Awardees are asked to write a short work visit blog on their experiences abroad. Read below the blogs of the work visits in 2025:
Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases
| Researcher | Date | Work visit location | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claudia Dictus | May 4-28, 2025 | Jyvaskyla Finland | APH HBCD work visit blog: Claudia Dictus |
| Judith Visser | May 31-July 4, 2025 | Dublin, Ireland | APH HBCD work visit blog: Judith Visser |
| Romy Slebe | June 15-August 1, 2025 | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario in Canada | APH HBCD work visit blog: Romy Slebe |
| Rosalie Bakker | June 30-August 24, 2025 | The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland – United Kingdom | APH HBCD work visit blog: Rosalie Bakker |
Mental Health
| Researcher | Date | Work visit location | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anil Ori | October 17-31, 2025 | Mexico: The WCPG annual meeting of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics | APH MH work visit blog: Anil Ori |
| Malin Au | August 25-September 26, 2025 | University of Basel | APH MH work visit blog: Malin Au |
Aging & Later Life
| Researcher | Date | Work visit location | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Albers | September 8-October 3, 2025 | Institute of Nursing Science | APH ALL work visit blog: Charlotte Albers |
| Eefje Sizoo | October 5-9, 2025 | Alzheimer Europe conference & InterDEM meeting Bologna IT | APH ALL work visit blog: Eefje Sizoo |
| Henk Jan Schuijt | October 1-5, 2025 | Fragility Fracture Network Global Congress 2025, Porto, Portugal | APH ALL work visit blog: Henk Jan Schuijt |
| Hester Fidder | October 6-8, 2025 | 35th Alzheimer Europe Conference in Bologna | APH ALL work visit blog: Hester Fidder |
| Janine Hendriks | June 15-19, 2025 | European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease symposium, Barcelona | APH ALL work visit blog: Janine Hendriks |
| Eline Kroeze | May 27-30, 2025 | 25th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC25) in Lisbon | APH ALL work visit blog: Eline Kroeze |
| Charlotte Nijskens | September 24-26, 2025 | The European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) conference in Reykjavik, Iceland | APH ALL work visit blog: Charlotte Nijskens |
| Jaro Govaerts | September 24-26, 2025 | The European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) conference in Reykjavik, Iceland | APH ALL work visit blog: Jaro Govaerts |
| Julia Lyons | November 20-22, 2025 | International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) symposium, Ghent, Belgium | APH ALL work visit blog: Julia Lyons |
| Ilse Pluim | November 20-22, 2025 | International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) symposium, Ghent, Belgium | APH ALL work visit blog: Ilse Pluim |
| Sophie van Oppenraaij | August 24-29, 2025 | International Congress of Nutrition of IUNS: Sustainable Food for Global Health, Paris, France | APH ALL work visit blog: Sophie van Oppenraaij |
| Thomas Engelsma | September 29 - October 1, 2025 | Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Health Preference Research (IAHPR) in Enschede | APH ALL work visit blog: Thomas Engelsma |
| Chantal Goossens | May 12-16, 2025 | University of Linköping, Norrköping, Malmö (Sweden) and Copenhagen (Denmark) | APH ALL work visit blog: Chantal Goossens |
| Hanne-Eva van Bremen | October 1-4, 2025 | Fragility Fracture Network Global Congress 2025, Porto, Portugal | APH ALL work visit blog: Hanne-Eva van Bremen |
| Wim Groen | June 11-13, 2025 | The Frailty & Resilience in Ageing (FRIA) research department, Brussels, Belgium | APH ALL work visit blog: Wim Groen |
Quality of Care
| Researcher | Date | Work visit location | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annerixt Gribnau | February 1- July 31, 2025 | University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, PACE Section | APH QoC work visit blog: Annerixt Gribnau |
Personalized Medicine
| Researcher | Date | Work visit location | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirthe Klein Haneveld | September 16-19, 2025 | Guidelines-International-Network (GIN) conference, Geneva | APH PM work visit blog: Mirthe Klein Haneveld |
| Eva Meier | February-March, 2026 | Australia; University of Melbourne, Monash University, and Griffith University | Conduct in-depth interviews with stakeholders from various PGx programs |
Methodology
| Researcher | Date | Work visit location | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pauline Lubet | December 2025 | WESO research group at the University of Oviedo (Spain) |