‘Obesity: the role of the food environment’ was the topic of ahti Connect on February 15. Speakers were Coosje Dijkstra, researcher at VU University working at the Institute of Health Sciences, department Youth and Lifestyle, and Loek Leenen, project leader of ‘Amsterdamse Aanpak Gezond Gewicht’. Obesity in the Netherlands The number of Read more…
Thursday, February 8th 2018, was the final meeting for the pilot ‘Neighborhood Based Approach’ (‘Wijkbrede Aanpak’) at the Stadionbuurt / District of Zuid (South) in Amsterdam. ‘Neighborhood Based Approach’ is a training program that helps local Zorg & Welzijn (health and welfare) professionals work together with local residents in order to Read more…
On January 18th ahti organized its’ fifth ahti Connect in this new year on ‘Evidence-based policy: Fact or fiction?’. Duco Stuurman, director of the social domain in the City of Amsterdam and Ruben Spruit, co-founder of Delph and specialist in machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data, discussed how data Read more…
The City of Amsterdam will continue to support ahti with 6 mln euro for the continuation period 2018-2024. By connecting people, technology, information and entrepreneurship, ahti stimulates innovation in health. Ahti is going to target Innovation and Entrepreneurship within healthtech to achieve the following objectives: Facilitate targeted (policy) interventions and Read more…