Projects
Systems approach of URban enviRonmEnts and heALth Hasselt University
Prevention of perinatal mental health problems in culturally and linguistically diverse populations: Development and implementation of a screening tool in primary care and community-based settings KU Leuven
During the perinatal period, i.e., pregnancy and the first postnatal year, 20% of (expectant) mothers struggle with perinatal mental health (PMH) problems. PMH problems can severely affect (expectant) mothers, their (unborn) children, the (expectant) co-parents and their support network. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women seem to be a population at risk. Namely, CALD women are more likely to be exposed to key risk factors for ...
Understanding mother's decision-making concerning the medicalization of her daughter's genital cut. University of Antwerp
Role of receptor tyrosine kinases and associated gangliosides in influenza virus replication KU Leuven
Influenza infections produce significant medical and socio-economic burden. Every year, human influenza A and B viruses cause millions of cases of severe respiratory illness and death. Every so often, a pandemic arises when a zoonotic influenza A virus with sustained human transmissibility enters the human population. Antivirals are crucial for influenza treatment and prevention, especially in fragile populations such as elderly. At the ...
Neuromuscular complications of critical illness KU Leuven
ICU-acquired weakness (ICUAW) is a frequent complication of critical illness. It presents as new onset symmetrical weakness of the peripheral and respiratory muscles during critical illness and cannot be explained by other causes than the acute illness or its treatment. ICUAW is caused by structural or functional damage to the nerves, the muscles or both and occurs in about half of the patients with sepsis, those with multiple organ failure ...
Elucidation of the molecular basis for the activation of trypanosomal receptor adenylate cyclases by stimulus-induced ectodomain conformational change. University of Antwerp
Food systems transformation towards healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour KU Leuven
The EU food system is under considerable pressure for change due to its negative climate, environmental and health impacts. Food system transition will require changing dietary habits of millions of Europeans. PLAN’EAT aims at advancing the scientific basis on factors influencing dietary behaviour and the health, environmental and socio-economic impacts of dietary patterns and deliver solutions for transition through a transdisciplinary and ...
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Ghent University
INEQKILL focuses on a crucial dimension of inequality in society, the disparity in death, coined ‘ultimate inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the origin and ...
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers
of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)
and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the ...