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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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CEASE: Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan
1/01/21 → 31/12/24
Project: Research Project
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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.
1/01/21 → 31/12/24
Project: Research 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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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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Costs and barriers faced by households seeking malaria treatment in the Upper River Region, The Gambia
Broekhuizen, H., Fehr, A., Nieto-Sanchez, C., Muela, J., Peeters-Grietens, K., Smekens, T., Kalleh, M., Rijndertse, E., Achan, J. & D'Alessandro, U., 2021, In : Malaria Journal. 20, 1, 8 p., 368.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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