Researcher
Robert Colebunders
- Research Expertise:Training and providing advice in the field of infectious diseases, tropical medicine, travel medicine and HIV infection and assistance in establishing national treatment guidelines in these domains.
- Keywords:TUBERCULOSIS, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, HAEMORRAGHIC FEVER, HIV-INFECTION, TROPICAL DISEASE, Medicine
- Disciplines:Immunology, Tropical medicine, Microbiology
- Research techniques:Treatment guidelines.
- Users of research expertise:- Physicians - Medical students - Clinical researchers - Ministry of Health
Affiliations
- Global Health Institute (GHI) (Research group)
Member
From1 Jan 2019 → Today - Epidemiology and social medicine (ESOC) (Research group)
Member
From1 Oct 2014 → 31 Dec 2018 - Epidemiology and social medicine (ESOC) (Research group)
Member
From1 Oct 2003 → 30 Sep 2014
Projects
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- Reducing onchocerciasis-associated morbidity in children.From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Project in the field of Onchocerciasis diagnosis.From1 Jun 2022 → TodayFunding: Foreign foundations, funds with scientific view
- Stopping the burden of disease caused by onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy.From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- The assessment of psycho-social and behavioral response and compliance to restriction measures to prevent and control of Covid-19: an series of rapid surveys.From21 Jan 2021 → 20 Jan 2024Funding: Foreign public sponsor
- Effective information exchange and care orientation in Covid-19-related contact tracing phone calls. An applied sociolinguistic and conversation analytic enquiry into optimizing interactional dynamics and pragmatic awareness.From1 Nov 2020 → 31 Oct 2021Funding: FWO Special Call for Covid-19 research projects
- African network to study, treat and prevent onchocerciasis associated epilepsy (OAE-Africa).From1 Jan 2019 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: VLIR-UOS Joint
- Multi-disciplinary approach to control onchocersiasis-associated epilepsy in the Mahenge area in Morogoro region, Tanzania.From1 Jan 2018 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- Development of a policy to stop the suffering caused by Nodding Syndrome and Onchocerciasis associated epilepsy (NSstop).From1 Sep 2017 → 28 Feb 2019Funding: H2020 - Frontier Research (ERC)
- Nodding Syndrome: a trans-disciplinary approach to identify the cause and decrease the incidence of river epilepsy (NSETHIO).From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Nov 2021Funding: H2020 - Frontier Research (ERC)
- An investigation into the geographical distribution, host species, burden of disease and optimal diagnosis and treatment of Emmonsia hoerikwaggiana infections.From1 Jan 2014 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research project
Publications
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- Ivermectin for malaria control in mass drug administration programmes(2022)
Authors: Astrid Christine Erber, Robert Colebunders
Pages: 449 - 450 - COVID-19 in low and middle income countries(2022)
Authors: Robert Colebunders, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo
Pages: 1 - 3 - Serological evaluation of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis elimination in the Bakoye and Falémé Foci, Mali(2021)
Authors: Housseini Dolo, Yaya I. Coulibaly, Moussa Sow, Massitan Dembélé, Salif S. Doumbia, Siaka Y. Coulibaly, Moussa B. Sangare, Ilo Dicko, Abdallah A. Diallo, Lamine Soumaoro, et al.
Pages: 1585 - 1593 - COVID-19(2021)
Authors: Robert Colebunders
- First description of Nodding Syndrome in the Central African Republic(2021)
Authors: Salvatore Metanmo, Farid Boumediene, Pierre-Marie Preux, Robert Colebunders, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Eric de Smet, Emmanuel Yangatimbi, Andrea S. Winkler, Pascal Mbelesso, Daniel Ajzenberg
- COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil(2021)
Authors: Edlaine Faria De Moura Villela, Rossana Veronica Mendoza Lopez, Ana Paula Sayuri Sato, Fabio Morato de Oliveira, Eliseu Alves Waldman, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Robert Colebunders
- No evidence for the involvement of leiomodin-1 antibodies in the pathogenesis of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy(2021)
Authors: An Hotterbeekx, Krizia Vieri, Melanie Ramberger, Ashraf Jozefzoon-Aghai, Michel Mandro, Floribert Tepage, Alfred Dusabimana, Samir Kumar-Singh, Maarten J. Titulaer, Robert Colebunders
- Epilepsy in the Sanaga-Mbam valley, an onchocerciasis-endemic region in Cameroon(2021)
Authors: Alexandre Morin, Maxime Guillaume, Leonard Ngarka, Godwin Y. Tatah, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Guillaume Wyart, Ghislain Nokam, Thierry Tchoumi, Mary Bello Nkinin, Wepnyu Y. Njamnshi, et al.
Pages: 513 - 527 - Potential parasitic causes of epilepsy in an onchocerciasis endemic area in the Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo(2021)
Authors: Krizia Vieri, Michel Mandro, Chiara Simona Cardellino, Pierantonio Orza, Niccolo Ronzoni, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, An Hotterbeekx, Robert Colebunders
- COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and its determinants in Mozambique(2021)
Authors: Janeth Dula, Alexandre Mulhanga, Armindo Nhanombe, Laurentino Cumbi, Antonio Junior, Joe Gwatsvaira, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Edlaine Faria de Moura Villela, Sergio Chicumbe, Robert Colebunders
Linked dataset
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- Ivermectin as an adjuvant to anti-epileptic treatment in persons with onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy : a randomized proof-of-concept clinical trial (Creator)
- Single versus multiple dose ivermectin regimen in onchocerciasis-infected persons with epilepsy treated with phenobarbital: a randomized clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Creator)