VvE activities

The annual epidemiological congress, the WEON, will take place on May 29 and 30 (Wednesday and Thursday!), at Hotel Theater Figi, in Zeist. The 2024 WEON will be organized by the UMC Utrecht, in cooperation with the VvE.

Online event organized by the VvE Young Epidemiologists Friday April 21st, 2023 15:00-17:00 Online on Zoom We invite all interested (young) researchers to participate in this spring event! Make sure you register on time through the registration by e-mail (secretariaat@epidemiologie.nl) Registration deadline: April 14th For more information, download this flyer.

June 22-23, 2023 Thema: Embracing Uncertainty World Trade Center, Rotterdam Researchers are always struggling with uncertainty and causality. The organizers of the Netherlands Epidemiology congress 2023, also known as WEON2023, will fully embrace uncertainty in research. With interesting keynote speakers, we will discuss uncertainty from many different angles. We kindly invite to participate in this […]

We nodigen alle junior epidemiologen (master studenten, PhD kandidaten, postdocs en alle andere geïnteresseerden in epidemiologie) uit om deel te nemen aan dit interactieve symposium. Tijdens dit fysieke evenement krijgen deelnemers uitgebreid de kans om de carrièremogelijkheden als epidemioloog te verkennen en hun netwerk te vergroten. Donderdag 20 oktober 2022, van 16:15 tot 18:30 uur […]

Within the VvE, initiative is highly valued by members. To support initiatives in the context of the VvE’s objectives, the VvE makes small subsidies available. These offer the possibility to set up a so-called Special Interest Group (SIG). We would like to bring the symposium below, organized by the Special Interest Group: Registry-based research, to your attention: Symposium Let’s sail through […]

Within the VvE, initiative is highly valued by members. To support initiatives in the context of the VvE’s objectives, the VvE makes small subsidies available. These offer the possibility to set up a so-called Special Interest Group (SIG). We would like to bring the workshop below, organized by the Special Interest Group: Innovative and Contemporary […]

Wednesday June 8, 2022 13:00u-17:00u Live at Radboudumc Organization: Alma Tostmann (Radboudumc) and Sonia Boender (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin) The special interest group “Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology” organizes this pre-conference workshop. In this workshop the concept and areas of so-called “field epidemiology” will be illustrated by different experts from the field, followed by a hands-on […]

Wednesday June 8, 2022 1:30pm-5:00pm Live at Radboudumc Organization: Mirte Boelens, Dana Moldovanu and Frank Wolters (VvE Working Group Junior Epidemiologists) It is part of human nature to look for confirmation of preconceived ideas and discard inconsistencies, rather than challenge our prior beliefs. As a consequence, confirmation bias has often kept faulty scientific paradigms intact, […]

Wednesday June 8, 2022 1:30pm-5:00pm Live at Radboudumc Organization: Miriam Haaksma (LUMC, dept. of Public Health and Primary Care) René Melis (Radboudumc, dept. of Geriatrics) Growth modeling is a flexible statistical method which can be used to assess changes in disease/health trajectories over time. It can also be used to study determinants of these changes. […]

Wednesday June 8, 2022 9:00am-11:00pm Online Organization: Iris van Rooij, Rolf Groenwold, Michiel de Boer & Maud Verhoef-Jurgens (VvE spearhead group Education), Femmie de Vegt (Radboudumc) & Noha El-Baz (UMCG) The preconference on teaching epidemiology will focus on lifelong learning in epidemiology. Becoming an epidemiology professional is more than just following epidemiology courses, as skills […]