Tropical Infectious Diseases Research Group

Projects

Projects per year 2006 2015 2017 2018 2020 2021 2022 2028

• 41 Active
• 77 Finished

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• Active

  Impact evaluation of interventions, addressing spatiotemporal transmission heterogeneity and human mobility, to control arboviruses.

  Baldoquin Rodriguez, W., Kreppel, K., Vanlerberghe, V., De Baets, B., Baetens, J. & Romani, T. M. E.

  1/07/23 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• StrogHAT: Stop transmission of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

  Hasker, E., Nicco, E., Trooskens, A. M., Philips, S. & Nicco, E.

  The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

  1/07/23 → 30/06/28

  Project: Research Project

• Development and validation of next-generation serodiagnostics for the elimination of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense human African trypanosomiasis.

  Tablado Alonso, S., Hasker, E., Rigouts, L., Van Den Abbeele, J. & Mumba-Ngoyi, D.

  8/06/23 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Fascioliasis transmission, and it’s burden in Northern Vietnam

  Hoang, Q. V., Polman, K., Callens, S., Dermauw, V. & Trung Dung, D.

  6/07/22 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• COINCIDE: Impact of reducing colistin use in humans and poultry in Indonesia

  Peeters, K., Schneiders, M. & Peeters, K.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/06/22 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research Project

• FA5 RDC_OC1: Strengthen research and education capacities in the partner institutes (INRB, CRSK, ESP) in DRC (Outcome 1) - Support to interruption of transmission of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) by 2030 (Outcome 2)

  Vanlerberghe, V., Verlé, P., Nicco, E., Van Cauwenberg, I., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Mutsaers, M., de Jong, B., Van Den Abbeele, J., Dermauw, V., Ariën, K., Hauner, A., Monsieurs, P., Van Bortel, W. & Vanlerberghe, V.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development project

• FA5 NEPAL: Evidence-based vector-borne disease management and elimination of visceral leishmaniasis in Nepal

  Hasker, E., Cloots, K., Müller, R., Van der Auwera, G., de Gooyer, T. & Hasker, E.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development project

• TB/NTM Research Cluster

  de Jong, B., Sengstake, S., Rigouts, L., Tzfadia, O., Ardizzoni, E., Lynen, L., Decroo, T., Hasker, E., Van Rie, A., Lynen, L. & Hasker, E.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research Project

• FA5 RWANDA: Make Rwandan institutes leaders in infectious disease prevention, diagnosis and control

  Rigouts, L., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Kattenberg, E., de Jong, B., Cuella Martin, I., Mitchell, E., Theunissen, C., Polman, K., Trevisan, C., Ravinetto, R., Roosen, T. & de Jong, B.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development project

• FA5 VIETNAM: Capacity building & policy support in parasitological disease

  Kattenberg, E., Peeters, K., Dermauw, V. & Kattenberg, E.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development project

• FA5 BURKINA FASO: Improve research capacity in infectious disease to inform policy & control strategies

  Rosanas-Urgell, A., Jacobs, J., Peeters, K., Vuylsteke, B., Mutsaers, M., Eddyani, M., Hyland, P. & Rosanas-Urgell, A.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development project

• A quantitative and qualitative risk assessment of pig-related parasitic zoonoses in Burundi

  Minani, S., Peeters, K., Trevisan, C., Gasogo, A., Gabriël, S. & Ntirandekura, J. B.

  1/01/22 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Stopping the burden of disease caused by onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy

  Polman, K. & Polman, K.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/01/22 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research Project

• FA5 PERU: Better policies and less infectious diseases in Peru and Latin America

  Van der Auwera, G., Verdonck, T., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Mutsaers, M., Nieto Sanchez, C., Müller, R., Bartholomeeusen, K., Eddyani, M., Hyland, P., Rosanas-Urgell, A. & Müller, R.

  Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development project

• Statistical methods for estimating age and time-dependent epidemiological malaria parameters and the analysis of social network data as a new approach to the development of malaria elimination strategies

  Grosso, A., Peeters, K., Abrams, S. & Hens, N.

  3/11/21 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• 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. & Hasker, E.

  Global Health Innovative Technology Fund

  27/08/21 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research 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

• CEASE: Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan

  Peeters, K., Jaiteh, F. & Peeters, K.

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/01/21 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research 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, T., Braet, S., Tzfadia, O., Ramanantsoa, A. & Peeters, K.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/01/21 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research Project

• FasciCoM: Emergence of fascioliasis in a global setting: development and validation of a transmission model to identify cost-effective control strategies

  Polman, K., Dorny, P., Dermauw, V., Polman, K. & Polman, K.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/01/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

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

  Peeters, K., Gryseels, C., Schneiders, M., Dielen, S., Nguyen, T., Vandamme, A., Vandaele, N., Vandermeulen, C., Giles-Vernick, T., Larson, H. J. & Gryseels, C.

  Research Fund - Flanders

  1/11/20 → 31/10/23

  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., Kreppel, K. & Vanlerberghe, V.

  Washington State University

  1/06/20 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research Project

• ALERT: Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality andmorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa

  Benova, L., Marchal, B., Castellano Pleguezuelo, V., Semaan, A., Snijders, R. & Benova, L.

  European Commission

  1/01/20 → 31/12/24

  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

• An economic evaluation of strategies for sleeping sickness elimination

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

  3/07/19 → …

  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

• 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

• 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

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

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

  1/11/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

• SchistoSAM: A proof-of-concept trial to evaluate artesunate-mefloquine as a novel alternative treatment for schistosomiasis in African children

  Bottieau, E., Polman, K., Van Herrewege, Y., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Mbow, M., Cisse, B. & Bottieau, E.

  1/10/18 → 31/12/23

  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

• 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

• Diagnostic and epidemiological aspects of human toxocariasis in Cuba

  Sariego Ramos, I., Polman, K., Van der Stuyft, P. & Rojas Rivero, L.

  1/07/11 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Finished

  JPPP research project: A pilot project to prepare for the Urban health systems, shocks and resilience: what can we learn from COVID-19? project

  Marchal, B., Polman, K., Van Belle, S., Verdonck, T., Michielsen, J., Nieto Sanchez, C. & Everaert, R.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/04/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research Project

• Control of urban malaria transmitted by Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia: development of context sensitive vector control interventions for use in houses

  Egid, B., Peeters, K., Wilson, A. L. & Weetman, D.

  3/11/21 → 6/07/22

  Project: PhD-project

• Clinical care and sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV in Indonesia

  Rahmalia, A., Peeters, K., van der Ven, A., van Crevel, R. & Wisaksana, R.

  12/10/21 → 12/10/21

  Project: PhD-project

• Effectiveness of innovative interventions on curbing transmission of leprosy

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

  30/06/21 → 20/06/23

  Project: PhD-project

• CPP: Coronavirus Pandemic Preparedness project

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  King Baudouin Foundation

  15/01/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research Project

• L’épidémiologie et la lutte contre la schistosomiase au Burundi dans un contexte d’élimination

  Bizimana, P., Polman, K., Van Geertruyden, J. & Ortu, G.

  3/11/20 → 21/12/21

  Project: PhD-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 fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit

  1/07/20 → 31/05/22

  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

  1/07/19 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research Project