10.05-10.15

Edith Feskens (Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

10.15-10.30

Keynote: Translating Science to Policy
Victor Sannes (Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) 

How can scientific knowledge effectively inform policy decisions and societal impact? In this keynote, Victor Sannes will share insights into the opportunities and challenges of translating scientific evidence into policy. Drawing on his experience at the science–policy interface, he will reflect on what is needed to turn knowledge into meaningful action for public health.

10.30-11.00

Keynote: Futuring as a catalyst for change: Rethinking prevention
Roel Vermeulen (UU/UMCU)

In this keynote, professor Roel Vermeulen (Utrecht University and University Medical Center Utrecht) invites us to view preventive health from an unexpected angle: the future. Speaking as if looking back with curiosity and mild astonishment, he reflects on the choices we made in 2026, revealing how many of today’s routines and assumptions around prevention may one day seem ineffective, or even strangely misplaced. This future perspective unsettles what we take for granted and creates space to imagine fundamentally different ways of acting.

 

Rooted in the work of the EWUU Institute for Preventive Health, the keynote illustrates how preventive health can only succeed when we move beyond disciplinary silos and work in society, with society. From child resilience and healthy living environments to health at home and early-onset cancer, the examples show how scientists, policymakers, practitioners, designers and community partners jointly shape knowledge, interventions and transitions. Here, research is not only about understanding the world, but about changing it together.

11.00-11.15

11.15-11.45

Keynote: What if we paid more attention to smell? 
Sanne Boesveldt (WUR-Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group)

 

This keynote examines how our senses shape health, behavior, and wellbeing - influencing everything from nutrition and obesity to neurodegenerative disease and harmful product use. A call to recognize sensory health as an important societal and public health issue.

11.45-12.00

Reina de Kinderen

12.00-12.45

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14.15-14.45

14.45-16.15

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16.15-16.30

16.30-17.00