Collaboratoring Researcher
Ingrid Vriend (1973) is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of Amsterdam UMC, location VU University Medical Center. She studied Human Movement Science and Epidemiology, and worked as a researcher at VeiligheidNL (Consumer Safety Institute) and embedded researcher at VUmc focusing, among other things, on sports injuries and the development and evaluation of interventions. This work has resulted in a thesis ‘Preventing sport injuries: from evidence to practice’ which she successfully defended in September 2017. Currently, she is working on projects on the prevention of injuries in youth volleyball and judo.