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

Consortium with ACHC gets ZonMw funding for Exercise and Physical Activity

Published on August 2nd 2019 – This week, ZonMw awarded eight research projects Exercise and Physical Activity worth over 5 million euros. ACHC researcher Gert-Jan de Bruijn will participate in Active4Life, one of the awarded projects. In the Active4Life project, Big Data analyses will be applied to investigate effective intervention […]
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Veni Grant for Christin Scholz: Neural processes of social media content on alcohol consumption

Published on July 24 2019 – Young adults are bombarded with contradictory information about alcohol like anti-drinking media campaigns and conversations among peers which are generally pro-alcohol. Christin Scholz received a prestigious NWO Veni grant to research how young adults make decisions about drinking after processing conflicting information about alcohol, […]
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Eline Smit and colleagues receive a ZonMw grant

Published on July 17 2019 – Together with colleagues from Maastricht (a/o Dr. Ciska Hoving) and Leiden Universities (a/o Dr. Matty Crone), ACHC researcher Eline Smit has received a grant from ZonMw to identify the effective ingredients in smoking cessation interventions available in the Netherlands (€49.525). The three-month study they […]
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Conference EUCAM and ACHC about digital alcohol marketing

Published on July 12 2019 – On Thursday September 19, EUCAM (European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing) together with ACHC organize a conference entitled ‘Digital Alcohol Marketing in the Spotlight’. During this conference scientist and policy makers discuss the influence of digital alcohol marketing on drinking behavior of youth and how […]
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