Health & Work

Populations are ageing, the number of people living with chronic conditions is increasing, and pressure on healthcare and the labour market continues to grow while productivity growth is stagnating. Together with businesses and government, TNO Health & Work develops scientifically grounded solutions that work in practice and contribute at scale to a healthy and productive society.

Accelerating the transition to a healthy and productive society

We believe health and work reinforce one another. Healthy people can participate in society for longer, and keep learning and working for longer. At the same time, good work contributes to health, wellbeing and sustainable employability. This creates a positive interplay that not only benefits people individually, but also eases pressure on healthcare and the labour market and contributes to broad prosperity.

TNO Health & Work therefore develops, validates and implements innovative solutions that help people live healthier lives, accelerate drug development, enable children to grow up healthy and resilient, and make organisations more productive.

By connecting our knowledge of health, prevention, work, technology and AI with practical applications, we help governments, healthcare organisations and businesses tackle complex challenges such as rising healthcare costs, staff shortages and stagnating productivity.

Together, we are building towards a healthy and productive society.

Efficient drug development

To improve quality of life, extend healthy life expectancy, and reduce healthcare costs, new medicines must become available more quickly and at lower cost. We help accelerate the drug development process. Through microtracer technology and further process innovations, TNO and its partners are bringing this goal closer to reality. Together, we contribute to the world of tomorrow.

Health and lifestyle

To live longer in good health, a healthy lifestyle is often the best medicine. We help reduce the number of people living with lifestyle-related conditions, such as diabetes and obesity. TNO and its partners make this possible through personalised interventions, behavioural change support, and evidence-based policy advice. Together, we work towards increasing the number of healthy years of life for everyone while reducing pressure on the healthcare system.

Youth health

The early stages of life are crucial to our health and wellbeing. That is why TNO develops measurement tools and innovative interventions that enable healthcare professionals to support children and parents at an early stage and in an effective way. In doing so, we contribute to a society in which all children have equal opportunities to grow up safely and healthily, becoming vital and productive adults. Together, we innovate for a healthier society, with lower healthcare costs and greater sustainable productivity.

Future of Work

Sustainable productivity growth is essential to maintaining long-term prosperity. We help organisations adopt people-centred, labour-saving and enabling technologies, while accelerating the implementation of innovations so that work becomes smarter, less physically demanding and more meaningful. Together, we are building more productive organisations with employees who remain healthy and sustainably employable, while contributing to a future-proof economy.

Expert Groups

Within Health & Work, we work across six expert groups to generate scientific knowledge and insights, and to develop innovations that contribute to a healthy and productive society.

Want to collaborate?

We don't achieve our ambitions alone. As an independent research organisation and innovation partner, we work together with governments, healthcare organisations, businesses and knowledge institutions, from early scientific breakthrough through to practice-ready innovation. In doing so, we bring knowledge, technology and implementation power together, and accelerate the transition to a healthy and productive society, together.

Would you like to work with us? Get in touch with our team, we're glad to think along from the very first idea through to scaling up in practice.

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Marc Zegveld

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Managing Director unit ICT, Strategy & Policy
As an independent, out-of-the-box leader, Marc’s career is driven by a singular focus: boosting economic competitiveness and delivering systemic impact through innovation. He operates on the conviction that true progress requires explicit choices, including confronting uncomfortable truths and championing the inconvenient but necessary investments needed to build a fair, resilient, and prosperous society.

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  Den Haag - New Babylon
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Seth van den Bossche

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Director Work AI
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  Leiden - Sylviusweg
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Jeffrey Vermeer

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Director Health a.i.
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  Leiden - Sylviusweg
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How TNO creates openness around mental health

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9 October 2026

At TNO, talking about your mental health does not have to wait until someone is off sick. TNO employees always have access to professional psychological support, without their manager needing to know.

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