Externally Funded Projects

Synergy grant Australian National Health and Medical Research Council – tobacco endgame law program; ‘INTER – net’

The Interdisciplinary Tobacco Endgame Research Network: project running over five years, aimed at producing in 2027 of a tobacco endgame implementation plan (project led by Prof Coral Gartner, University of Queensland, Australia). GCHL’s contribution consists of setting up a global scientific network on tobacco control; 2022.

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How a one-health concept can be implemented in the field of public health nutrition

Participation in project led by Prof Antje Risius (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) funded by the German BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) involving an inter- and transdisciplinary - systemic - approach to the question of how a one-health concept can be implemented in the field of public health nutrition, taking into account planetary boundaries; 2023-2027.

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Wetsevauatie Wet medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen (WMO)

Participation in the evaluation of the Dutch Medical Research Involving Humans Act (WMO); project leader is Erasmus School of Health, Policy and Management, 2022-2023.

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JRF - EU

Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), project concerning oral child health (together with Prof David Manton from UMCG), 2021-2025.

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Natalie Abrokwa, assistance in the finalization of the WHO Good Practice Guidance on Community-based Mental Health Services - Agreement for Performance of Work in the Policy, Law and Human Rights unit (PLR) of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, 2021-2024.

Meaghan Beyer and Prof. Brigit Toebes, developing a human rights based framework for the protection of mothers and infants from the marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes (BMS), 2021.

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Government of Japan

Research grant, Prof Tokuko Munesue (Waseda University, Japan), international comparative research concerning a human rights assessment of health policy, visit Groningen during academic year of 2021-2022.

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NWO Rubicon grant

Dr. Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, former PhD candidate, project ' Revolutionary pills? the emergence of a new model for (self-managed) abortion laws', 2019 - envisaged visit to O'Neill Institute, Georgetwon University, Washington, 2021-2022.

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Netherlands Lung Foundation (and four other health funds)

Prof. Brigit Toebes, Michelle Bruijn and dr. Katerina Tsampi, Novel smoke-free policies to protect children as part of a tobacco endgame: assessing international and local experiences to generate transferable lessons for the Netherlands, for project page see here, 2019-2021.

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NWO visitor grant - 2018

Prof. Brigit Toebes was awarded a visitor grant for a research stay of Prof. Scott Burris. The project is titled 'Developing the justice programme of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health'.

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Erasmus+ teaching/training mobility grant- 2018

Erasmus+ teaching/training mobility grant with Mzumbe University, Tanzania.

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Global Drug Development: Investigating the impact of Ethics and Legitimacy on the Regulatory Decision Making Process - 2016

Research grant of the Medicines Evaluation Board of the Netherlands for the project Global Drug Development: Investigating the impact of Ethics and Legitimacy on the Regulatory Decision Making Process. Granted to dr. Marie Elske Gispen together with M. Duwell, B. McGonigle-Leyh (Utrecht University) and Prof. Brigit Toebes.

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KWF - The rights of children to a tobacco free environment – 2015-2018

Project funded by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF). In 2015, Prof. Brigit Toebes was granted funds for the appointment of a postdoc (dr. Marie Elske Gispen) investigating the rights of children to a tobacco-free environment and setting up a European Scientific Network on Law and Tobacco (ESNLT).