Caphri

The School for Public Health and Primary Care: Caphri is part of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) of Maastricht University. A School is defined as an organizational unit of substantial size in which researchers, PhD-students and masters students work together to perform high quality research and education. The School for Public Health and Primary Care: Caphri was officially established on the 1st of July 2007, simultaneously with four other FHML graduate Schools, and can be seen as a further development of the pre-existing research institute Caphri.

Research
Caphri's research domains are public health and primary care, focusing on chronic diseases. The emphasis lies on multidisciplinary applied research with a primary interest in health outcomes relevant to individuals in an extra- and transmural setting.

Education
In addition to research, the School is responsible for training researchers and providing (research) master-level education. The School coordinates research and master education activities from the Departments of General Practice, Epidemiology, Health Education and Health Promotion, Health Policy and Management, Health Ethics and Society, Nursing and Care, Methods and Statistics, Orthopaedics, Rehabilitation and (in the near future) the departments of Social Medicine and International Health. These departments are preferentially labelled to the School since the major part of their research and teaching is in the area of primary care and public health. Traditionally however, the School collaborates with staff from other FHML-departments as well. The multidisciplinary research projects are organized in research programmes, which are grouped in three clusters: Primary Care, Innovation of Care, and Public Health. The aim of the School is to excel in scientific quality as well as in societal relevance.

Research School CaRe
On a national level, Caphri participates in the Research School CaRe (Netherlands School of Primary Care Research) and in the Research School WTMC (Science, Technology and Modern Culture). Both Schools are officially acknowledged by the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) and are centres for high quality training of PhD students and for national and international research collaboration.