Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving (RVS)

Name

Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving (RVS)

Legal name

Raad voor Volksgezondheid en Samenleving

Website

https://raadrvs.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

The Hague

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: The RVS is a government advisory body funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). As an independent advisory council, it does not generate commercial revenue.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The RVS is an independent Dutch advisory council that produces evidence-based advisory reports (adviezen), podcasts, newsletters, and public events on topics at the intersection of public health and society. It advises the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) and both chambers of Parliament on policy issues including care boundaries, health inequalities, social cohesion, mental health, and end-of-life care. The council operates under a statutory mandate established in 2015.

Product overview

RVS is an independent advisory council for the Dutch government and Parliament, producing advisory reports (adviezen), podcasts, and maintaining expertise networks. The core offering consists of published advisory reports on public health and societal issues, supplemented by the Stervelingen podcast series, news services, and newsletter subscriptions. The organization operates expertise networks (VeRS and KennisRing) to inform their advisory work. There are no commercial products or SaaS offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• VeRS: VeRS is the young talent network of the Raad voor Volksgezondheid & Samenleving. Launched in early 2018, it consists of 32 enthusiastic young professionals with affinity and/or experience in healthcare and the social domain who contribute perspectives to RVS advisory themes.
• KennisRing
• Centrum voor Ethiek en Gezondheid (CEG)

Products and services

• Adviezen (Advisory Reports) Independent advisory reports (adviezen) issued to the Dutch government and Parliament on public health and societal policy issues including health inequalities, social cohesion, elderly care, mental health, and end-of-life care. Over 50 reports published since 2015.
• Stervelingen Podcast A 3-part podcast series exploring how Dutch society relates to death, dying, loss, and grief. Features personal stories and philosophical reflections on mortality, produced by Slowpony.
• RVS Nieuwsbrief (Newsletter) Free email newsletter subscription delivering RVS advisory outputs, news, and event updates to subscribers, distributed via the external platform Yellenge.
• Expertise Networks (VeRS and KennisRing) Two networks that convene external expertise for the RVS: VeRS, a talentennetwerk of 32 young professionals with affinity and experience in healthcare and social domains (launched 2018), and KennisRing, a network of 25 authoritative professionals, administrators, and experiential experts meeting three times a year to provide input on advisory themes.
• Centrum voor Ethiek en Gezondheid (CEG) Collaboration between the RVS and the Gezondheidsraad (Health Council) that publishes signalementen (ethical analyses) placing unsolicited ethical topics on the political and societal agenda. Coordinated by senior advisor Myrthe Lenselink.

Quantifiable outcome

• Published over 50 advisory reports on topics including health inequalities, social cohesion, elderly care, mental health, and end-of-life issues
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Centrum voor Ethiek en Gezondheid (CEG)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018CEG is the collaboration between RVS and the Gezondheidsraad (Health Council). It addresses ethical topics in health policy, bringing unasked-for ethical issues to the political and societal agenda. Myrthe Lenselink serves as coordinator of CEG.
• Gezondheidsraad (Health Council)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint collaboration through CEG (Centrum voor Ethiek en Gezondheid) on ethical issues in healthcare and health policy.
• SlowponyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPodcast production partner for the Stervelingen series. Slowpony (makers of Audiocollectief SCHIK) produced the 3-part podcast in collaboration with RVS.
• Nederlandse AdviesradenminorGTM or Marketing PartnerJoint newsletter collaboration with other Dutch advisory councils. RVS participates in the Gezamenlijke Nieuwsbrief van de Adviesraden.
• Nederlandse SportraadminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint advisory with Dutch Sports Council on inequality in sports participation (kansenongelijkheid in bewegen en sport). Both councils issued joint recommendations to the government.
• Maatschappelijk Impact Team (MIT)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint advisory with MIT and College voor de Rechten van de Mens on the Wet publieke gezondheid (Public Health Act).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Gezondheidsraad (Health Council of the Netherlands): Independent Dutch scientific advisory body on health and healthcare; co-runs the Centrum voor Ethiek en Gezondheid (CEG) with RVS and operates under a near-identical statutory advisory mandate to ministries and Parliament.
• College voor de Rechten van de Mens: Netherlands Institute for Human Rights; an independent Dutch advisory body that has issued joint advisories with RVS (e.g. on the Wet publieke gezondheid) and shares the statutory advisory governance pattern.
• Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER): Socio-Economic Council; tripartite Dutch advisory body advising government and Parliament on social-economic policy, comparable in governance structure and statutory role to RVS.
• Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR): Scientific Council for Government Policy; another statutory Dutch advisory council reporting to the Prime Minister on long-term strategic policy issues, structurally analogous to RVS but with a broader cross-domain remit.
• Raad voor de leefomgeving en infrastructuur (Rli): Council for the Environment and Infrastructure; one of the Dutch statutory advisory councils covering sustainability and infrastructure, structurally analogous to RVS and a natural participant in joint Dutch advisory newsletter initiatives.
• Adviesraad Migratie: Dutch Migration Advisory Board; another statutory independent advisory council advising government on migration policy, structurally analogous to RVS and operating under a similar ministerial funding arrangement.
• Nederlandse Sportraad (Dutch Sports Council): Dutch national advisory council for sport and physical activity; a documented joint-advisory partner of RVS (on inequality in sports participation), with similar statutory advisory function.
• Maatschappelijk Impact Team (MIT): Dutch advisory body focused on societal impact; documented joint-advisory partner of RVS on public health law, with overlapping advisory remit and policy-influencing function.

Broad incumbents

• Centraal Planbureau (CPB): Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis; an established independent policy research and advisory organization with similar government-funded, Parliament-facing role, though focused on economic rather than health-and-society domains.

Others

• RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment): Dutch national public-health and environment research institute; ecosystem participant that supplies RVS with much of its scientific underpinning and is co-referenced in Dutch health policy advisory work.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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