This spring, NIHES offers the following courses:

• A First Encounter with Next-Generation Sequencing Data – GE13
• Preventing Failed Interventions in Behavioral Research – MP05
• Repeated Measurements – CE08
• From Problem to Solution in Public Health – HS18
• Planning and Evaluation of Screening – HS05
• Bayesian Statistics – CE09
•  Psychiatric Epidemiology – EP12
• Public Health in Low and Middle Income Countries – PU06
• Missing Values in Clinical Research – EP16

If you are interested, please apply here.

We are looking forward to seeing you this spring!

We are very happy and proud that NIHES first Women’s Health course was festively opened by Dutch singer and comedian Karin Bloemen on 28 January 2013.

Karin Bloemen fully supports our initiative for improving women’s health and wellbeing. She surprised us with a special program for our Women’s Health course.

The Women’s Health course ran from 28 – 30 January, click here for more information.

(Photo: Nick van Ormondt)

MS Centre ErasMS and the Departments of Epidemiology and Neurology invite you to visit the upcoming seminar on the genetic epidemiology of a great example of a complex disease, by Dr. Sreeram Ramagopalan from the University of Oxford and the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in London.

‘Gene environment interactions and epigenetic studies in multiple sclerosis’

Click here for more information.

The department of Epidemiology, in collaboration with the department of Internal Medicine at Erasmus University medical Center, offers medical and health professionals a comprehensive course in Women’s Health.

This course brings together experts in women’s health from a multitude of disciplines and provides participants with resources that will assist them in broadening and strengthening clinical care and research programs that are aimed at improving women’s health and well-being. The course will focus on the critical issues that affect women’s health through the life cycle.

Read more about this course.

Calí, Colombia – Monday, November 19, 2012

NIHES was represented by Prof. Oscar H. Franco (Erasmus MC), Monique Nuijten (NIHES), Adriana Buitrago (NIHES alumna), and Ivan Arroyave (NIHES alumnus).

EUROPOSGRADOS aims to promote European Higher Education in Colombia. It is the most important higher education fair in Colombia and the only one to focus on a wide range of postgraduate courses. NIHES will inform the fair visitors on its research training programmes and courses in medicine and the health sciences.

Join NIHES-Erasmus MC’s one year research-training programme in the health sciences for Science without Borders undergraduates!

This special programme focuses on study design, biostatistics, and clinical epidemiology. It also addresses the principles of research in medicine and epidemiology; clinical decision analysis; methods of public health research; markers and prognostic research; the practice of epidemiologic analysis, and health economics.

The programme is open to Science without Borders scholars in the last years of their undergraduate studies. It starts on August 6, 2013, and lasts 12 months. NIHES-Erasmus MC offers you a once in a lifetime study opportunity, combined with a hands-on research experience!

More information on the NIHES-Brazil Knowledge Platform website.

Bogotá, Colombia – November 16, 2012

To further academic cooperation in the field of medicine and the health sciences, the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences of Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (NIHES-Erasmus MC) and Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB) have signed an International Academic Agreement. NIHES and UNAB intend to exchange undergraduate and post-graduate students, academic staff and researchers, and collaborate in research areas of mutual interest.

From left: Monique Nuijten (NIHES); Adriana Buitrago, NIHES alumna; Dr. Gilberto Ramirez, Vice-Rector (UNAB), Dra. Norma Cecilia Serrano, Director Research Division of Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia (FCV), Ivan Arroyave, NIHES alumnus

Meet NIHES-Erasmus MC at EUROPOSGRADOS Colombia 2012

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Bogotá, Colombia – November 15, 2012

To further academic cooperation in the field of medicine and the health sciences, the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences of Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (NIHES-Erasmus MC) and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) have signed an International Academic Agreement. NIHES and PUJ intend to exchange undergraduate and post-graduate students, academic staff and researchers, and collaborate in research areas of mutual interest.

From left: Monique Nuijten (NIHES), Prof. Oscar H. Franco (Erasmus MC), Rvdo. Sergio Bernal, S.J., Dean Faculty of Medicine (PUJ), Mary Bermudez Gomez, Academic Dean Faculty of Medicine (PUJ), Carlos Gomez Restrepo, Director of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (PUJ).

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¡NIHES y Erasmus: una institución, una universidad, una experiencia muy personal!

Prof. Oscar Franco, Erasmus MC, Department of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, will talk about NIHES, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam from a personal perspective. Prof. Franco, a native Colombian, will present Rotterdam’s research-training programmes in medicine and the health sciences with a view on Colombia.

Venue: EUROPOSGRADOS, Bogotá – Sala Europea
Date: Saturday, November 17
Time: 16:15

EUROPOSGRADOS aims to promote European Higher Education in Colombia. It is the most important higher education fair in Colombia and the only one to focus on a wide range of postgraduate courses. NIHES will inform the fair visitors on its research training programmes and courses in medicine and the health sciences.

Meet NIHES-Erasmus MC student advisors and alumni on:

November 16-17

Centro de Convenciones Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada
Calle 26A #13 A -10
Bogotá

November 19

Hotel Dann Carlton
Cra 2 #1-60
Cali

Bogotá, Colombia – November 14, 2012

To further academic cooperation in the field of medicine and the health sciences, the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences of Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (NIHES-Erasmus MC) and Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud (FUCS) have signed an International Academic Agreement. NIHES and FUCS intend to exchange undergraduate and post-graduate students, academic staff and researchers, and collaborate in research areas of mutual interest.

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