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Health economic evaluations of health care systems and public health campaigns University of Antwerp
Health economic evaluations based on mathematical modelling provide many opportunities in the fields of epidemiology, health care management and quality of care. The aim of this research project is to apply and extend model-based health economic research to primary care practices, nursing teams, infectious disease management and multi-morbidity. Part 1 targets out-of-hours care in Belgium, which is increasingly organized in general practitioner ...
Food biodiversity and associations with cancer risk and mortality - from metabolic pathways to public health recommendations mutually beneficial for human and planetary health Ghent University
The hypothesis underlying the project ‘BioHealth’ is that food biodiversity in human diets contributes to better health outcomes while simultaneously protecting our ecosystems. Therefore, BioHealth aims to assess how species diversity in diets is associated with cancer risk and mortality in European populations. Biological pathways underlying these associations will also be investigated as well as co-benefits for planetary health. BioHealth ...
Clinical and public health research to improve maternal and newborn health & to control sexually transmitted infections Institute of Tropical Medicine
Reproductive and Maternal Health, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Adballah - Fez (USMBA), Fundacio Centre de Recerca en Salut International de Barcelona, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Université Mohammed V - Souissi - Rabat (UM5S), Institut National d'Administration Sanitaire, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux II (ISPED-UB2), Université Cadi Ayyad - Marrakech (UCAM), Universtity of Southampton, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Institute of Tropical Medicine
The overall aim of the proposed staff exchange programme is to establish a long lasting collaboration between Moroccan, South African and European research teams involved inclinical epidemiological and public health research. This effort should ultimately lead to improved mother and child health and better control of sexual transmitted diseases.
The proposal is therefore structured in seven work packages:
1. Management and ...
Public health decision making with stochastic individual-based models: a translational framework driven by advances in health economics, model inference and reinforcement learning (ACCELERATE) Hasselt University
This project proposes a methodological framework in the context of 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 additional randomness at the individual level. ...
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
This project proposes a methodological framework in the context of
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
additional ...
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
additional ...
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
Hasselt University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA)
This project proposes a methodological framework in the context of 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 additional randomness at the individual level. ...
Combining phylodynamics and agent-based HIV transmission modelling to advance epidemiological methodology and evidencebased public health policies for HIV prevention and treatment Hasselt University
High rates of HIV transmission remain an important public health challenge. HIV Phylodynamics is the study of HIV viral genetic data to understand the HIV transmission dynamics behind an HIV epidemic. Agent-based HIV transmission models simulate how HIV epidemics evolve, based on estimates and assumptions of infectious disease parameters. Both methodologies could be combined synergistically, but this area of epidemiological methodology is ...
Identification of best practices for biodiversity recovery and public health interventions to prevent future epidemics and pandemics (BEPREP). University of Antwerp
University of Jyväskylä, Umea University, Lancaster University, University of Helsinki, Federal University of Bahia, Foundation Edmund Mach, CES University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Friederich-Loeffler-Institut, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Sokoïne University of Agriculture, National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Traffic International, Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO)
Epidemics and pandemics- most of them caused by zoonotic and vector-borne emerging diseases- are globally threatening our health and welfare at an alarming pace. Prevention of future disease outbreaks will be pivotal to secure human welfare and demands transformative change. "Biodiversity-is-good-for-our-health" has become a new paradigm in disease risk mitigation. Consequently, nature restoration targeting biodiversity recovery - isolated or in ...
Lifting barriers towards obtaining actionable public health information from pathogen genomes: model advancement, performance evaluation and application to respiratory syncytial virus types A and B KU Leuven
Molecular epidemiology approaches can glean epidemiological information from pathogen genomes, and have grown into an important instrument across infectious disease research. Harnessing these methods for actionable information to public health -an important goal in e.g. HIV research- requires the ability to obtain timely and unbiased information on key epidemic processes such as migration. The adoption of model-based phylogenetic inference of ...