You work in a team with various internal and external colleagues in an environment with a good, pleasant working atmosphere and nice contacts. Based on your scientific expertise and affinity, you contribute to solutions for societal problems. RIVM focuses on a sustainable, safe and healthy living environment. The project is conducted in collaboration with the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) of Utrecht University and the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL). With this programme, we focus on topics that deserve extra attention because they may have an impact on public health and the environment in the future.
This is our programm for our own research, innovation and knowledge development. The PhD project is part of the Strategic Programme RIVM. Within this department, we study the effects of environmental factors, such as air pollution and noise, on human health. You will become part of the department of Environment and Health of the Centre for Sustainability, Environment and Health of RIVM. You will be appointed at RIVM (Bilthoven) and will defend your PhD at Utrecht University. These papers will form the basis of your PhD thesis. You will publish the findings as papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. You will conduct case studies on the impact on cardiometabolic and mental health. You will work together with other RIVM researchers to assign exposure changes and define appropriate study designs and statistical methods. These could be both largescale interventions as well as a combination of multiple similar local interventions. We will face the many methodological challenges by means of designs and statistical techniques tailored to the evaluation of the selected interventions.Īs a PhD student, you will start with a comprehensive inventory of potentially suitable interventions. We will link these changes to relevant residential addresses of subjects in different existing national health registries and specific cohort studies and will investigate the health impact in selected case studies. We will focus on interventions (such as noise barriers, traffic re-direction and large scale intervention such as environmental zones) that have caused changes in environmental factors such as air pollution, noise or access to green space. The aim of the project is to explore how existing health data can be combined and analyzed in a smart way in order to investigate the positive and negative health impact of interventions in the living environment. In our project ‘Health impact of (infrastructural) interventions in the living environment’ we do research into this evidence. However, empirical evidence on the public health impact of these interventions is limited. In the past, many interventions in the living environment have been implemented to improve air, water and soil quality and reduced noise.
Continue reading about our project ‘Health impact of (infrastructural) interventions in the living environment’, it might be the research project for you! Do you want to contribute to a better understanding of the health impact of infrastructural interventions in the living environment? In our PhD project you can explore how this challenging issue can be studied using different (large) existing national health registries and cohort studies combined with sophisticated data analytical methods.
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