Facts

  • Professor in Health Communication, Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University (2009- ).
  • Professor in Cancer Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Maastricht University (-2008)
  • Endowed chair for the Dutch Cancer Society on Cancer Prevention and Health Promotion (1998-2008).
  • Honorary Research Consultant on Cancer Prevention to the Medical Research Council of South Africa
  • Honorary Research Fellow in the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development program at the Human Sciences Research Council, Durban South Africa.
  • Catharina Pijls Award for the dissertation "Smoking prevention in Dutch adolescents", November 29, 1990.
  • Research agreement between the department of Health Education and the Dutch Smoking and Health Foundation
  • Co-founder (with Prof. Dr. Anne Charlton) of ENYPAT
  • Steering group member and member of Adivisory Board of the European Network for Young People Against Tobacco (ENYPAT)
  • Brug, H. & De Vries, H. (1999). Special Issue Computer Tailored Education; Guest Editors for Patient Education and Counseling.
  • Research Collaboration with Nelson Mandela School of Public Health, Department of Community Health, Durban, South Africa
  • Co-editor Preventive Medicine, Psychology and Health, Health Education
  • Visiting professor Cancer Prevention Research Center, University of Rhode Island, RI,USA (2002), Un of Kwazulu Natal (Durban, South Africa), Un. Cluj (Romania) and Un. of Nicosia (Cyprus).