NICHE is a research group at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. It seeks to strengthen international health systems through policy-relevant and empirically-based research and education.

NICHE was established in 2007, and now hosts some 15 researchers from both the Netherlands and low-income countries. We conduct scientific research and collaborate with implementing agencies to foster the transfer of knowledge into health. In our analysis, we preferably adopt a health-systems wide .... 

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Fact

Methadone maintenance therapy costs clients 70% of their income.

NICHE evaluated MMT services for injecting drug users in Bandung, Indonesia. User fees, transport and income losses costs clients US$5.60 per visit and are an important barrier to access. NICHE recommends the Indonesian government to subsidize MMT.

News

  • Three BMJ publications on cost-effectiveness of non-communicable disease control

    10 Apr. 2012

    Rob Baltussen and Sten Zelle have published a series of papers on the cost-effectiveness of interventions  to control breast cancer and ... | CONTINUE READING »

  • Francoise Barten president-elect of ISUH

    10 Nov. 2011

    Francoise Barten is president-elect on the Executive Board of the International Society of Urban Health (ISUH). She was elected at the... | CONTINUE READING »

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