Organisations
Health Systems and Health Policy Research Group Institute of Tropical Medicine
Objectives
The Health Systems & Health Policy Group aims at making health systems more people-centered, integrated, accountable, equitable and resilient. Through our research, educational and service delivery activities, we aim at improving health policies and systems so that the right to health and Universal Health Coverage is guaranteed to all people.
We contribute to policies, programmes and local health systems that ...
Laboratory for Systems Medicine KU Leuven
Laboratory for Systems Medicine:
The Systems Medicine Lab at KU Leuven is part of BIO3, which has pillars in GIGA-R at the University of Liège (Belgium) and in the Center for Human Genetics at KU Leuven (Belgium). BIO3's activities take place at the intersection of Biostatistics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics. The group leader is Professor Dr. Dr. Kristel Van Steen who is an expert in these areas.
BIO3 has built up a recognized ...
Japanese Studies, Leuven KU Leuven
Research topics of this team are:
- The massive repatriation to North Korea by the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi)
- The issue of Japanese wives residing in North Korea
- Japanese-North Korean relations and parliamentary diplomacy
- The attitude of Japanese and Zainichi intellectuals towards the Korean peninsula
- The concepts tenkō 転 向 ("ideological conversion") and parrhesia παρρησία ("truth")
Human-Computer Interaction and eHealth Hasselt University
The HCI and eHealth research unit performs research in Computer Science, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). eHealth is an important application domain in the overall research portfolio of the group. The HCI and eHealth research unit is led by Prof.dr. Karin Coninx, and the group has vast experience in basic and applied research, often in the context of a multi-/interdisciplinary research consortium. The most elaborated research ...
Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology KU Leuven
The Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology (HCVE) coordinated influential clinical trials, published in top-ranking journals, such as the Systolic Hypertension in Europe Trial (Syst-Eur), the Ambulatory blood Pressure monitoring and Treatment of Hypertension trial (APTH) and the Treatment of hypertension based on Home or Office blood Pressure trial (THOP). HCVE led the Data Safety and Monitoring Board of large clinical ...
Software Technology and Application Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The involvement of the non-computer scientist domain expert is one of the biggest challenges of today's computer science, and will become an important factor within STARLab. These domain experts are often not very familiar with formal techniques; so we must investigate methods that make those formal techniques more accessible. We should look at computer linguistics, since natural language represents a universal communication medium that ...
Forest, Nature and Landscape KU Leuven
Overall, the research carried out in this laboratory focuses on the spatial and quantitative assessment of biological and man-induced patterns and processes at the landscape and habitat level both in rural, urban and natural settings. We aim at coupling traditional research on forestry, landscape elements, land use, and biotic communities with earth observation, spatial data sciences, the statistical modeling environment, and planning tools. ...
Medical Informatics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Medical Informatics team in the UZ Brussels is an innovative service. We researched the Clinical Workstation (KWS) to improve the way in which user processes in the medical sector and the UZ Brussels are carried out in particular, using new alternatives that ICT offers us. That's reflected in our mission: translating medical and medical-administrative processes into directly applicable ICT solutions based on state-of-the-art technologies ...