Cum laude for Kei Long Cheung

Congratulations to Kei Long Cheung, now postdoc at CAPHRI, who defended his thesis titled 'The Use of an Economic Decision Support Tool in the Context of Tobacco Control - Prerequisites for the development of a support tool for economic decision-making' on Thursday June 14 at the Aula of Maastricht University. He was awarded the distinction cum laude.

His supervisors are Silvia Evers and Hein de Vries. His co-supervisor is Michaël Hiligsmann. The research was funded by an European Community's Seventh Framework Programme Grant titled “European-study on Quantifying Utility of Investment in Protection from Tobacco (EQUIPT)”.

Read the thesis here:  

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