The Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC) strives to promote health through research on effective communication.

Announcement symposium “Conversational Agents in Health Communication”

On Monday, November 18, 2019,  ACHC will hold it autumn 2019 symposium. The theme of this symposium is “Conversational agents in health communication” and will be led by Gert-Jan de Bruijn. The symposium is free of charge, and contains a varied program with (inter) national speakers from science and practice.
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How unhealthy is being sedentary? Office workers’ responses to media coverage.

Published on October 18 2019 – Most people read about scientific research in the news media, but it is unclear how they respond to such media attention, particularly if the content is relevant for themselves. An important public health problem is the lack of physical activity due to sedentariness, for […]
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Stimulating healthy food choices using virtual reality at the Weekend of Science

Published on October 14 2019 –  at the Weekend of Science, ACHC-researcher Eline Smit and her ASCoR colleague Marijn Meijers investigated whether environmental appeals can be used to stimulate healthy food choices. Children and their parents could shop in a virtual reality supermarket (VirtuMart; developed by Nynke van der Laan […]
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Successful conference EUCAM and ACHC about digital alcohol marketing

Published on September 25th 2019 – On Thursday September 19, EUCAM (European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing) together with ACHC organized a conference entitled ‘Digital Alcohol Marketing in the Spotlight’. The conference took place at the department of Communication Science of the University of Amsterdam.
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