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

Consortium with ACHC obtains large grant from Nationale Wetenschapsagenda

Published on January 11, 2021 – In a consortium with various academic and practical partners, Gert-Jan de Bruijn has received a grant from the National Science Agenda (Nationale Wetenschapsagenda) within the funding round for Research on Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC). The NWO grant amounts to 9.7 million EUR and will focus […]
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Successful 9th ACHC Symposium “Digital Health: Resistance or Motivation?”

Last week, the ninth ACHC symposium finally took place, entitled “Digital Health: resistance or motivation?“. Due to the Corona crisis, this symposium had to be canceled earlier this year. Last week it took place online for the same reason.
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Keynote Heather Patrick: “A walk on the wild side: Tales of translating behavioral science into health tech”

Published on September 30, 2020 – Dr Heather Patrick will give this keynote lecture on November 17th, 2020 as part of the online Symposium “Digital Health: resistance or motivation” organized by our Amsterdam Center for Health Communication/ACHC. We cordially invite everybody who is interested to attend this online lecture.
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Thesis Defense Ruth Pel-Littel – Shared decision making for older patients and their caregivers

Published on November 11, 2020 – Ask older adults and their informal caregivers to think at home about what they themselves find important to discuss with the doctor, and explicitly invite them to bring their knowledge and experience about their personal life with diseases into the conversation with the doctor.
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