Tropical Infectious Diseases Research Group

Projects

Projects per year 2008 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2026

• 36 Active
• 64 Finished

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• Improving clinical care of Febrile Illnesses in Nepal

  Koirala, K. D., Boelaert, M., Chappuis, F. & Rijal, S.

  1/06/14 → 5/02/21

  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

• 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

• CPP: Coronavirus Pandemic Preparedness project

  Peeters, K. & Everaert, R.

  Koning Boudewijnstichting

  15/01/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 → 1/06/22

  Project: PhD-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

• 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

  1/04/19 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research Project

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

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

  EDCTP2

  1/09/18 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research Project

• 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.

  DIVERSE KLANTEN

  1/04/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research 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 → 18/04/23

  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

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

  Philips, S. & Hasker, E.

  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  1/11/16 → 30/06/23

  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. & Ielegems, A.

  Vlaamse Overheid

  1/11/18 → 31/07/23

  Project: Research 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. & Ielegems, A.

  Global Health Innovative Technology Fund

  27/08/21 → 30/09/23

  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. & Everaert, R.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/11/20 → 31/10/23

  Project: Research 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., Stas, M. & Hasker, E.

  Vlaamse Overheid

  1/12/18 → 30/11/23

  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. & Janssens, A.

  European Commission

  1/01/20 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research Project

• CEASE: Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan

  Peeters, K., Jaiteh, F. & Everaert, R.

  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., Everaert, R. & Ramanantsoa, A.

  Vlaamse Overheid

  1/01/21 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research 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. & Ielegems, A.

  Washington State University

  1/06/20 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research Project

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

  Peeters, K., Schneiders, M. & Ielegems, A.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/06/22 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research Project

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

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

  DGD

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development project

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

  Kattenberg, J. H., Peeters, K., Dermauw, V. & Stas, M.

  DGD

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development 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. & Stas, M.

  DGD

  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. & Janssens, N.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Research 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. & Everaert, R.

  DGD

  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. & Stas, M.

  DGD

  1/01/22 → 31/12/26

  Project: Development 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., Everaert, R., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Mutsaers, M., de Jong, B., Van Den Abbeele, J., Dermauw, V., Ariën, K., Hauner, A., Monsieurs, P. & Van Bortel, W.

  DGD

  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

• 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

• 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 economic evaluation of strategies for sleeping sickness elimination

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

  3/07/19 → …

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

  22/01/15 → …

  Project: PhD-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

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

  Baldoquin Rodriguez, W., van der Sande, M., Vanlerberghe, V., De Baets, B., Baetens, J. & Romani, T. M. E.

  3/11/21 → …

  Project: PhD-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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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