VvE Oral presentatieprijs 2023

The Board of the Netherlands Society for Epidemiology is pleased to award the VvE Oral Presentation Award 2023 to:

Henri van Werkhoven

With the abstract: “Information bias in estimating vaccine effectiveness due to informed consent for COVID-19 vaccine register”

The jury consisting of: Frank Wolters from Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Kevin Jenniskens from UMC Utrecht en Iris van Rooij from Radboudumc Nijmegen came to the following decision:

“The jury had the pleasant task of hearing the excellent work of all nominees for the VvE Oral Presentation Award, and was impressed by the presentation skills of the nominees. In the end, however, the jury was unanimous in their decision on the winner. This presenter excelled in portraying a clear and relevant story of their research to the audience, while providing good insight into the methodological challenges of their work. This project thereby showed how the core values of epidemiology can help shape public heatlh  policy, to which this research provided an important contribution.”

The VvE Oral Presentation Award 2023 was awarded on 23 June 2023 during the annual epidemiological conference (WEON), organized by Erasmus MC Rotterdam.