At the beginning of 2019, RIVM measured the air quality around the landfill at Philipsburg, Sint Maarten for two weeks. No or hardly any harmful substances were measured.

One of the findings of RIVM’s Public Health Foresight Study (PHFS) for addressing the complex societal challenges we face, is the necessity of integrated and person-centred approaches.

On Thursday 11 April 2019, RIVM welcomed a delegation from Public Health England (PHE). Chief Executive Duncan Selbie of PHE headed the delegation.

22 March UN World Water Day is all about attention on the importance of water.

To improve integrated care for older people, professionals and organisations need to get to know each other, build trust and better understanding.

The key figures of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) show that in 2018 there were 806 TB patients in the Netherlands. This is 3 percent more than in 2017 (784).

Would you like to collaborate in an international laboratory network of hepatitis E virus (HEV) experts performing supranational studies and are you able to share HEV sequences in a shared reposito

RIVM is hosting an international workshop on new and emerging risks from chemicals on 20 and 21 February 2019.

Recently, the EU-sponsored Vaccines and InfecTious diseases in the Ageing popuLation (VITAL) project was launched.

On November 19th 2018, RIVM organised an international expert meeting on a rare type of lymphoma that is associated with breast implants.