The establishment of the “ Federal Council for Professionals in Health Care and Mental Health” (CFPSSM, 01/07/2017) contributes to the protection of the title of Clinical Psychologist and therefore of the title of Clinical Health Psychologist. Belgian academics active in health psychology are members of this council.

There is no association specifically dedicated to health psychology in Belgium. The Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (baps.be) covers research activities, including health psychology. There is always at least one member of the executive committee who is doing research in health psychology. For issues related to the profession of health psychology, the Belgian Federation of Psychology (https://en.bfp-fbp.be) that aims to advance psychology as a discipline as a whole, and more specifically uppcf.be and vvkp.be (clinical psychology) are the associations active for respectively French-speaking and Dutch-speaking health psychologists.

The ARPH is an association specifically dedicated to health psychology that gathers Dutch and Belgian researchers active in health psychology (https://arph.nl). The association organizes an annual meeting either in The Netherlands or in Belgium.

All Belgian universities that have a faculty of psychology (Ghent University, KU Leuven, VUB, ULB, UC Louvain, ULiège, UMons) have courses on health psychology or medical psychology. Some offer specific master's degrees in health psychology whereas at other universities health psychology courses are offered as part of a training in clinical psychology.

FRS-FNRS (https://www.frs-fnrs.be/en/) and FWO (https://www.fwo.be/en/) are the main research funding agencies in respectively the French-speaking and Dutch-speaking community. The King Baudouin Foundation (https://kbs-frb.be/en) also has dedicated research fundings in health psychology.

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