Tropical Infectious Diseases Research Group

Projects

Projects per year 2008 2015 2017 2018 2019 2025

• 29 Active
• 56 Finished

Projects per year

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• Active

  3V Trial: Viability & Value of the Lung Flute ECO for Sputum Sample Collection and Tuberculosis Testing in Vulnerable Groups

  Hasker, E., Mitchell, E., Snijders, R. & Paessens, E.

  Global Health Innovative Technology Fund

  27/08/21 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research Project

• Effectiveness of innovative interventions on curbing transmission of leprosy

  Ortuno Gutierrez, N., Hasker, E. & Richardus, J. H.

  30/06/21 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Implementation of safe and effective radical cure vivax malaria – a policy analysis approach

  Ruwanpura, V. S. H., Peeters, K., Ley Thriemer, K., Price, R. N. & Lynch, C. A.

  27/04/21 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• SNA_Leprosy: Improving leprosy prevention strategies by integrating social network analysis with spatial and molecular epidemiology data of Mycobacterium leprae in the Comoros

  Peeters, K., Hasker, E., de Jong, B., Ronse, M., Verdonck, K., Braet, S., Tzfadia, O. & Everaert, R.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/01/21 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research Project

• CEASE: Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/01/21 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research Project

• Entomological evidence to support Visceral Leishmaniasis elimination in Nepal

  Roy, L., Hasker, E., Van Bortel, W., Van Bortel, W. & Caljon, G.

  1/07/20 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• EIDRC-ECA: Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Center - East and Central Africa

  Hasker, E., Vanlerberghe, V., Lepore, L., van Griensven, J., Ariën, K. & Paessens, E.

  Washington State University

  1/06/20 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research Project

• Understanding antimicrobials use: An ethnographic study of rural communities in Burkina Faso

  Compaore, A., Peeters, K., Jacobs, J., Sariola, S. & Tinto, H.

  1/01/20 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Community Participation in Neglected Tropical Diseases Elimination: A case study of Human African Trypanosomiasis elimination in Democratic Republic of Congo

  Vander Kelen, C., Hasker, E., Torr, S. & Pulford, J.

  3/07/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• An economic evaluation of strategies for sleeping sickness elimination

  Snijders, R., Hasker, E., Fink, G. & Tediosi, F.

  3/07/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Humanitarianism as a Form of Government: Interactions in Aid, Meaning-Making, and Well-being for Helpers of Refugees in Greece and Germany, a Multi-sited, Transdisciplinary Ethnography

  Witcher, A. L., Peeters, K., Gerrets, R., Kalir, B., Krause, K. & Fumadó Perez, V.

  11/04/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• The role of innovative tools for sand fly control in the visceral leishmaniasis (VL) elimination initiative in the South-East-Asian region

  Chowdhury, R., Hasker, E., Van Bortel, W. & Caljon, G.

  11/04/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• People-centered digitized healthcare system: Using technology as a platform to strengthen the continuum of care in Kibaha, Tanzania

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  D-tree international, Inc

  1/04/19 → 15/12/21

  Project: Research Project

• Improving facility delivery and postpartum care coverage through facility and community based intervention in the post-Ebola context in rural Guinea

  Camara, B. S., Peeters, K., Delvaux, T., Gerrets, R., de Kok, B. & Delamou, A.

  1/01/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• CHARHAT-DRC: Cryptic human and animal reservoirs compromise the sustainedelimination of gambiense-human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Büscher, P., Van Reet, N., Boelaert, M., Inocêncio da Luz, R., Miaka, E. M., Phanzu, D. M., Mumba-Ngoyi, D., Mposhi, M. & Stas, M.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/12/18 → 30/11/23

  Project: Research Project

• ZCL Morocco: A systemic insecticide to control zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Errachidia province - Southeastern Morocco: an intervention trial for an innovative vector control tool

  Hasker, E., Boelaert, M., Bennis, I., Sunyoto, T., Cloots, K., Van Bortel, W., Poche, R. M., Poche, D. M. & Paessens, E.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/11/18 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research Project

• PEOPLE: Post exposure prophylaxis for leprosy in the Comoros and Madagascar

  de Jong, B., Hasker, E., Braet, S., Geluk, A., Cambau, E., Gaudin, C., Andrianarivelo, M. R., Assoumani, Y. & Stas, M.

  EDCTP2

  1/09/18 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research Project

• Innovative strategies to ascertain the Elimination of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Nepal

  Cloots, K., Hasker, E. & Vlas, de, S. J.

  11/07/18 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• An anthropological analysis of the community participatory approach of a malaria elimination trial in The Gambia: determinants for community members’ participation

  MASUNAGA, Y., Peeters, K. & Gerrets, R.

  11/07/18 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• A transdisciplinary study of the ethical implications of adolescent enrollment in a clinical trial in The Gambia

  Fehr, A. E. T., Peeters, K. & Bunders, J.

  26/04/18 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Exploring the Ethical issues in Clinical Research with Pregnant Women in low resource settings; and acceptability of interventions for pregnant women: An Ethnography Of The Pregnanzi-2 Trial In The Gambia

  Njue, M. W., Peeters, K., Gerrets, R. & Badaji, A.

  29/01/18 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Targeting residual malaria transmission among the Ra‐glai ethnic minority in Vietnam using a transdisciplinary approach

  Nguyen, T. T., Peeters, K., Gryseels, C., Gerrets, R. & Nguyen, X. X.

  1/08/17 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• R2STOP Leprosy: Improved understanding of ongoing transmission of leprosy in the Comoros, a region hyperendemic for the disease

  de Jong, B., Hasker, E., Assoumani, Y., Suffys, P. & Janssens, N.

  Research to STOP neglected tropical disease transmission

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research Project

• DRC - FA4: Building capacity for health research in three DRC partner institutions Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (IRNB), Ecole de Santé Publique de l’Université de Lubumbashi (ESP) en Centre de Recherche Sanitaire de Kimpese (CRS), and rationalize the fight against Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) while strengthening local health systems with the support of all partners.

  Boelaert, M., Jacobs, J., Büscher, P., Polman, K., Rigouts, L., Dorny, P., Hardy, L., Corsmit, E., Roucher, C., Eddyani, M., Dermauw, V., Bebronne, N., Snijders, R., Inocêncio da Luz, R., Van Cauwenberg, I. & Everaert, R.

  DGD

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Development project

• TRYP-ELIM-BDD: Eliminating Human African Trypanosomiasis in the three (formerly) Bandundu provinces, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  Boelaert, M. & Croon, A.

  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  1/11/16 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research Project

• Designing an innovative malaria elimination strategy based on reactive case and community participation: a mixed-­‐methods study

  Jaiteh, F., Peeters, K., MASUNAGA, Y., Gerrets, R. & Achan, J.

  1/10/15 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Antigen discovery for the diagnosis of invasive salmonellosis: A targeted proteomics approach

  Saleh, S., Büscher, P. & Gevaert, K.

  22/01/15 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Mesure et modelisation de la mortalité due au paludisme dans la zone de superveiillance démographique de Nanoro, Burkina Faso

  Derra, K., D'Alessandro, U., Erhart, A., Bocquier, P. & Haliodu, T.

  1/01/12 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Assessment of Co-Infections as Determinants of Treatment Failure in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

  Martinez Medina, D., Boelaert, M., Dujardin, J. & Llanos-Cuentas, A.

  1/11/10 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Finished

  CPP: Coronavirus Pandemic Preparedness project

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  Koning Boudewijnstichting

  15/01/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research Project

• Pro-actively addressing the challenges for an effective uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in Belgium: a transdisciplinary approach

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/11/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research Project

• Vaccine Hesitancy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding the Spread of Misinformation

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  British Embassy

  1/10/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research Project

• PRESTACOV: Sero-prevalence and sero-conversion study of health care workers and their households, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Vanlerberghe, V. & Ielegems, A.

  Deutsche Gesellschaft für

  1/07/20 → 31/01/21

  Project: Research Project

• Preventing vector-borne disease outbreaks in emergent peri-urban settings: a transdisciplinary study on the Integrated Housing Development Programme in Jimma, Ethiopia

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  Medical Research Council, United Kingdom

  1/07/19 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research Project

• AZM4NTD: Azithromycin and opportunities for integrated control of Neglected Tropical Diseases

  Inocêncio da Luz, R., Boelaert, M. & Paessens, E.

  Institute of Tropical Medicine

  1/11/18 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research Project

• Non-commercial clinical research in neglected tropical diseases

  Goyal, V., Boelaert, M., Ravinetto, R., Christiaens, T. & Rijal, S.

  11/07/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: PhD-project

• PregnAnZI: Pre-delivery administration of azithromycin to prevent neonatal sepsis and death: a phase III double-blind randomized clinical trial

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  Medical Research Council, United Kingdom

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project

• MASSIV: Anthropological research and community participation to facilitate mass drug administration of iverctmetin and dyhidroartemisin-piperaquine as an additional intervention for malaria elimination

  D'Alessandro, U., Baltussen, R., Slater, H., Nwakanma, D., Drakely, C., Bousema, T., Kandeh, B., Bradley, J., Peeters, K., Nieto Sanchez, C., Muela Ribera, J., Bastiaens, G., Affara, M., Achan, J. & Everaert, R.

  Medical Research Council

  1/01/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research Project

• CUBA - 2018 - FA4: To strengthen Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK, Cuba) and National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (INHEM, Cuba) towards accomplishment of their academic mission through capacity building and scientific co-operation.

  Boelaert, M., Vanlerberghe, V., Battaglioli, T. C. E., De Baetselier, I., de Jong, B., Torrea, G., Ariën, K., Heyndrickx, L. & Everaert, R.

  DGD

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Development project

• ArboviroseTrans : Role of human movement in relation to popular spots in the spatiotemporal dimension of vectorial arbovirus transmission?

  Vanlerberghe, V., Boelaert, M. & Everaert, R.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research Project

• Eliminatie van slaapziekte in DRC

  Boelaert, M. & Everaert, R.

  DGD

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Development project

• The interplay of sense making and decision-making processes on treatment and prevention of Nodding Syndrome by different stakeholders: an ethnographic exploration in Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda

  Irani, J., Peeters, K., Pool, R. & Gerrets, R.

  19/10/17 → 15/07/21

  Project: PhD-project

• SKIN-Leish: Infectiousness in asymptomatic carriers of L. Donovani

  Boelaert, M., Cloots, K., Hasker, E., Van der Auwera, G., Karki, P., Sundar, S. & Everaert, R.

  Institute of Tropical Medicine, Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  15/10/17 → 14/01/19

  Project: Research Project

• Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 as a promoter of tuberculosis in a country with low HIV prevalence

  Mejia Cordero, F. A., Boelaert, M., Battaglioli, T. C. E., Van der Stuyft, P., Seas, C. & Otero, L.

  1/08/17 → 31/07/19

  Project: PhD-project

• BOFFA GUINEA: Effectiveness of tiny target technology in controlling tsetse vectors for HAT - Boffa study in Guinea

  Lehane, M., Boelaert, M., Thys, S. & Paessens, E.

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

  1/05/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research Project

• Elimination de la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine en République Démocratique du Congo : étude du processus d’intégration des activités de lutte dans les services de santé de base

  Mulenga Cilundika, P., Boelaert, M., Coppieters, Y., Chenge, M. F. & Lutumba, P.

  1/03/17 → 12/02/20

  Project: PhD-project

• Prevalence, Risk Drivers and Locally Feasible Solutions for Brucellosis Control in Peri-Urban Small Holding Dairy Farms: A One Health Study

  Chauhan, A. S., Boelaert, M. & Antoine - Moussiaux, N.

  12/01/17 → 20/05/20

  Project: PhD-project

• Access to Care to Leishmaniasis Treatment in Africa

  Sunyoto, T., Boelaert, M., Picado De Puig, A. & Potet, J.

  15/01/16 → 25/06/19

  Project: PhD-project

• KalaCORE: Supporting the national Vector Control strategy in Nepal through capacity development

  Boelaert, M., Cloots, K., Ostyn, B. & Paessens, E.

  Mott MacDonald Limited

  1/01/16 → 28/02/19

  Project: Development project

• TRYP-ELIM: A demonstration project combining innovative case detection, tsetse control and IT to eliminate sleeping sickness at district level in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Boelaert, M., Hasker, E., Claeys, Y., Snijders, R. & Croon, A.

  BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUDATION

  21/10/15 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research Project