April 4, 2011
Socially relevant research of excellent quality
CAPHRI receives excellent scores in external evaluation
CAPHRI, Maastricht University’s School for Public Health and Primary Care, was classified as ‘excellent’, receiving the highest possible score in an official external evaluation. In a report published today, an external committee of leading national and international scientists praised the outstanding quality and social relevance of CAPHRI’s research and education.
According to the report drafted by the review committee, CAPHRI is an international leader in the field of extramural research. The committee deemed the successful and innovative research initiatives as an exemplary model for other academic institutions around the world.
In its evaluation, the committee concluded that the scientific quality and social relevance of the school was excellent: the impressive output of all CAPHRI research programmes has significantly improved in terms of quality and quality over the past six years. The committee also deemed the large number of articles published in top international journals like Nature, Science, The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet an astonishing achievement considering the research topics of CAPHRI.
CAPHRI has succeeded in putting some very topical and socially relevant issues on the agenda and has even launched a new research centre for healthcare technology together with the University of Twente and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) called the Centre for Care Technology Research (CCTR). The committee described the centre as follows: “This is research policy at its best, and provides high value to tax payers’ money and returns on investment for healthcare research.”
The committee also noted that CAPHRI’s breeding ground policy for young researchers is an exceptionally fruitful one and that its graduates are met with excellent career prospects in the future.
All research schools in the Netherlands are assessed every six years by an independent committee in accordance with the Standard Evaluation Protocol (SEP), the national guideline set by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The committee consisted of Prof. Bindels from Erasmus MC (chair); Dr Bert Boer from the Healthcare Insurance Board (CVZ); Prof. Bucher from the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Prof. David Mant from the University of Oxford; Prof. Stuck from the University of Bern, Switzerland; Prof. Strecher from the University of Michigan.
Read the full Report of the External Review Committee
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