Geoscience and health cohort consortium (GECCO)
Enabling research on environmental determinants of behaviours and health
GECCO is a Dutch infrastructure to support researchers to study the relation between environmental characteristics and health. Learn how you can get [free] access to a wide variety of environmental data to use for your research.
We are continuously expanding and improving the list of available environmental variables, and we use these data to enrich 25+ renowned and on-going large-scale Dutch cohorts.
This has already enabled many studies to examine the (longitudinal) relation between environmental exposures and individual-level behaviours and health outcomes.
GECCO is coordinated by Jeroen Lakerveld from the Amsterdam UMC, and governed by a steering group with representatives of the GECCO-affiliated institutes. It
formally started in November 2018 and is funded by NWO-ZonMw.
