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Last updated on 16-2-2023 by Lieke Vervoort

Our research projects illustrate the important role science and research plays at Sciensano. You can explore how science is conducted and the many types of science performed at Sciensano. You can find out about our partnerships and how Sciensano invests in research. You can also access reports and publications related to Sciensano’s scientific activities and discover the faces and places that make science happen at Sciensano. 

Acronym Start date End date Service Keywords
Influenza-like illness (including COVID-19) sentinel surveillance in Belgian nursing homes ILI-NH October 17, 2022 December 31, 2026 Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance Influenza Like Illness, COVID-19, influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2, nursing home, Belgium
International Food Policy Study Belgium IFPS Belgium November 1, 2023 October 31, 2024 Health information nutricion policies, consumer survey, dietary habits
Understanding and preventing the impact of endocrine disruptors on the hypothalamus-pituitary axis in sensitive populations HYPIEND January 1, 2024 December 31, 2028 Risk and health impact assessment
Tick-borne diseases in Belgium: identifying and communicating disease burden HUMTICK November 1, 2015 October 31, 2019 Epidemiology of infectious diseases tick-borne diseases, Lyme borreliosis, PTLDS, cohort study, burden of disease, cost price
Human Biomonitoring as an added value of the Health Interview Survey HuBiHIS September 1, 2017 December 31, 2021 Risk and health impact assessment, Health information air pollution, surrounding greenness, Health behaviour, black carbon, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, biological ageing, biomarkers
Health Status Report HSR June 1, 2017 December 31, 2023 Health information health determinants, health in Belgium, health status, monitoring, population health
Linkage of Health Interview Survey Data with Health Insurance Data HISLink January 1, 2017 Health information health interview survey, health insurance, data linkage, use of health care, health care expenditure
Health Interview Survey HIS January 1, 1996 Health information survey, health status, lifestyle, medical consumption, prevention, obesity, mental health
Health Inequality Impact Assessment for Tobacco Control in Belgium HIIA-TO November 26, 2024 December 31, 2028 Health information
Hand Hygiene Campaign HHC January 1, 2005 Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance hand hygiene, outbreak support team, multidrug resistant organisms, outbreak, long-term care facility, hospital, infection prevention and control, nosocomial infection, Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, quality indicators
Hepatitis E virus epidemiology: follow up of an emerging food-borne zoonosis in Belgium HEV EPI January 1, 2015 December 31, 2019 Viral diseases, Epidemiology of infectious diseases hepatitis E virus, epidemiology, surveillance, emergence, zoonosis
Health Examination Survey HES January 1, 2017 December 31, 2019 Health information health examination, survey, clinical measurement, laboratory analysis, representative sample
National infrastructure for genomic-epidemiologic surveillance of infectious diseases HERA-Incubator-WGS October 1, 2021 December 31, 2022 preparedness, eHealth, National Reference Centres, genomics, infectious diseases, epidemiology, Outbreaks, sequencing, NGS, WGS, Pathogen Genomics, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, tuberculosis, Influenza, listeria, salmonella, centralisation, genetics, harmonisation
Consolidation of national infrastructure for combined microbiological genomic-epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases HERA-BE-WGS January 1, 2023 June 30, 2025 Bacterial diseases, Viral diseases, Epidemiology of infectious diseases, Quality of laboratories , Transversal activities in applied genomics, Healthdata.be, Information and communication technologies pandemic preparedness, whole genome sequencing, national reference centres for human microbiology, national eHealth infrastructure, surveillance, infectious diseases
Unravelling the long-term and indirect health impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Belgium HELICON January 1, 2021 June 30, 2025 Health information, Epidemiology of infectious diseases health inequalities, health economics, delayed healthcare use, socio-demographic resilience, cohort study, excess mortality
Health Data Enabled for Re-use Across Belgium HeDERA June 6, 2024 Health information
Health, Environment and Susceptible Populations HEASP July 1, 2017 December 31, 2021 Risk and health impact assessment mortality, environmental exposure, medical conditions, susceptibility
HealthyCloud HealthyCloud March 1, 2021 August 30, 2023 Health information, Cancer centre health information system, Research, cloud, data linkages, cross-border data sharing, health related sectors, supercomputing, innovation, networks, expertise, cancer
Surveillance of Belgian honeybees colonies mortality 2017-2018 HealthyBee September 22, 2016 honeybee, mortality, bee health surveillance, Apis Mellifera, random forest, Varroa Destructor, apiary management, risk factors
Implementation of best practices and research results on prevention of non-communicable diseases and risk factors Health4EUKIDS December 1, 2022 November 30, 2025 Health information obesity, overweight, diet, physical activity
Impact of green/blue spaces on specific morbidity and cause-specific mortality in Belgium GRESP-HEALTH December 15, 2014 March 15, 2019 Risk and health impact assessment environment, green space, blue space, morbidity, mortality, inequity, biodiversity
Expertise laboratory for GMO analysis GMOlab January 1, 2016 Transversal activities in applied genomics GMO detection, qPCR, GMO, food safety, GMM
Human genomic biomarker RTqPCR array for optimised and mechanistically-based genotoxicity assessment GENOMARK May 1, 2014 December 31, 2018 Risk and health impact assessment, Transversal activities in applied genomics toxicogenetics, transcriptomics, DNA damage, genotoxicity tests, gene expression profiling, in vitro, 3R, alternative method
Development and evaluation of approaches for detection of organisms modified by new genome editing techniques GENEDIT - RF20/6342 January 1, 2021 December 31, 2023 gene-edited organisms, GMO, Detection, food safety, traceability
European Genomic Data Infrastructure GDI November 1, 2022 October 31, 2026 Cancer centre genomics, data infrastructure, health data, Research, personalised medicine, Beyond 1Million Genomes (B1MG), 1+MillionGenomes (1+MG), European Health Data Space (EHDS) Data Sharing, European Health Research and Innovation Cloud (HRIC)
Global Burden of Animal Diseases GBADs February 4, 2021 December 31, 2022 Health information aquaculture, burden of disease, economics, foodborne disease, livestock, one health, zoonotic disease
The relationship between gambling sponsorship and the normalization and prevalence of gambling GAMSPON December 15, 2022 March 15, 2026 Health information health survey, gambling behaviour, problematic gambling behaviour, gambling advertising, gambling sponsorship
Evaluation of important aspects of the efficacy of inactivated and live attenuated lumpy skin disease vaccines for cattle GALVmed LSD November 15, 2016 November 14, 2018 Transversal activities in applied genomics, Exotic and vector-borne diseases lumpy skin disease, inactivated vaccine, attenuated vaccine, duration of immunity and protection
Full-length sequencing to map and understand drivers and reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance FULL_FORCE January 1, 2020 June 30, 2022 Bacterial diseases antimicrobial resistance, long-read sequencing, plasmid, mobile genetic elements
Intake of free glutamate FREEGLUTAMATE February 1, 2021 January 31, 2023 Medicines and health products, Risk and health impact assessment, Organic contaminants and additives food additives, free glutamate

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