Projects
Public health decision making with stochastic individual-based models: a translational framework driven by advances in health economics, model inference and reinforcement learning (ACCELERATE) University of Antwerp
Public health decision making with stochastic individual-based models: a translational framework driven by advances in health economics, model inference and reinforcement learning Vrije Universiteit Brussel
respiratory pathogens with pandemic potential, based on historical
data of SARS-CoV-2. Clustered social contact patterns have been
pivotal in combination with stochasticity to explain disease spread
and heterogeneous behaviour. Therefore, we focus on mathematical
models that accommodate heterogeneity in infection acquisition and
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Salivary metabolomics as a new tool for unraveling stress obesity pathways in adolescents from a clinical public health perspective Ghent University
The high prevalence and treatment resistance of obesity urges further exploration into early diagnosis and prevention. This is especially important at young age, when metabolic and psychological development are ongoing. Psychological factors like stress can favor obesity, but researchers still struggle with the complex processes towards disease susceptibility. This project aims to elucidate pathways and identify potential clinical biomarkers ...
The public health impact of congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) and cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection in Belgium Ghent University
CT and cCMV can lead to lifelong disabilities and fetal or neonatal death. The goal of this project is to assess the public health impact of CT and cCMV in Belgium by using available data sources. This will generate the data needed for breaking the vicious circle of under recognition and neglect
Balancing socio-economic and public health impact of COVID-19 for its sustainable control and mitigation (SOPHIA) Ghent University
Given the uncertainty about the further development of the COVID-19 pandemic, decision makers urgently need to balance the immediate public health impact of the virus and the - yet uninvestigated - psychological and socio-economic impacts of the mitigation measures that were imposed to safeguard our health care system. Just as the spread of COVID-19 itself, these effects are spatially heterogeneous and scale dependent, hence the need to ...
Balancing socio-economic and public health impact of COVID-19 for its sustainable control and mitigation (SOPHIA) KU Leuven
Given the uncertainty about the further development of the
COVID-19 pandemie, decision makers urgently need to balance the immediate public health impact of
the virus and the - yet uninvestigated - psychological and socio-economic impacts of the mitigation
measures that were imposed to safeguard our health care system. Just as the spread of COVID-19
itself, these effects are spatially heterogeneous and scale dependent, ...
Balancing socio-economic and public health impact of COVID-19 for its sustainable control and mitigation (SOPHIA) Hasselt University
Combining phylodynamics and agent-based HIV transmission modelling to advance epidemiological methodology and evidencebased public health policies for HIV prevention and treatment Hasselt University
Critical revision of the management guidelines for non-melanoma skin cancer from a public health & economic perspective. Ghent University
Skin cancer is by far the most frequent cancer worldwide and we modeled that the number of skin cancer patients will triple over the next 20 years. Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is responsible for about 90% of all skin cancers and originate from keratinocytes, called basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)). The remaining 10% of skin cancers are melanomas, arising from malignant degeneration of melanocytes and are ...