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Professor Koen Peeters Grietens heads the Socio-ecological Health Research Unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. He is senior lecturer at Nagasaki University and is affiliated to the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research.
He holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology and has conducted extensive research on sociocultural factors related to infectious disease transmission dynamics, community perceptions on health and illness, and their impact on the effectiveness of disease prevention, control and elimination strategies.
His professional experience is characterized by high international mobility and extensive field research in low-income countries in West Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia.
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PhD
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Complexities in defining the unit of intervention for reactive community-based malaria treatment in the Gambia
Jaiteh, F., Ribera, J. M., Masunaga, Y., Okebe, J., D'Alessandro, U., Balen, J., Achan, J., Gerrets, R. & Peeters Grietens, K., 2021, In : Frontiers in Public Health. 9, 9 p., 601152.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article
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From informed consent to adherence: factors influencing involvement in mass drug administration with ivermectin for malaria elimination in The Gambia
Fehr, A., Nieto-Sanchez, C., Muela, J., Jaiteh, F., Ceesay, O., Maneh, E., Baldeh, D., Achan, J., Dabira, E., Conteh, B., Bunders-Aelen, J., Smekens, T., Broekhuizen, H., D'Alessandro, U. & Peeters Grietens, K., 2021, In : Malaria Journal. 20, 1, 16 p., 198.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article
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Further evidence needed to change policy for the safe and effective radical cure of vivax malaria: insights from the 2019 annual APMEN Vivax Working Group meeting
Ruwanpura, V. S. H., Nowak, S., Gerth-Guyette, E., Theodora, M., Dysoley, L., Haile, M., Peeters Grietens, K., Price, R. N., Lynch, C. A. & Thriemer, K., 2021, In : Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies. 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article
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In pursuit of a cure: the plural therapeutic landscape of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in Cameroon - a mixed methods study
Ronse, M., Irani, J., Gryseels, C., Smekens, T., Ekukole, S., Teh Monteh, C., Tatah Ntaimah, P., Dierickx, S., Verdonck, K., Colebunders, R., Njamnshi, A. K., O'Neill, S. & Peeters Grietens, K., 2021, In : PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 15, 2, 26 p., e0009206.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article
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Interventions to increase facility births and provision of postpartum care in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
Camara, B. S., Delamou, A., Grovogui, F. M., de Kok, B. C., Benova, L., El Ayadi, A. M., Gerrets, R., Grietens, K. P. & Delvaux, T., 2021, In : Reproductive Health. 18, 1, p. 1-22 22 p., 16.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article
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