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  DiMoC: Diversity Components in Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Face of Climate Change

  Müller, R. & Borremans, G.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/03/20 → 3/09/23

  Project: Research Project

• Innovative diagnostic and therapeutic measures to improve MDR-TB diagnosis and management in Conakry, Guinea

  Hassane Harouna, S., de Jong, B., Decroo, T., Rigouts, L., Delamou, A. & Camara, L. M.

  1/01/20 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Development and validation of a novel life course microsimulation model linking diet to noncommunicable diseases

  Peñalvo, J. L., Mertens, E., Ocira, J., Colizzi, C., Sagastume Cabrera, D. & Everaert, R.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

• Old school bacteriology revisited: need for in-depth knowledge on bacterial growth to tune diagnosis of bloodstream infections for use in low resource settings

  Jacobs, J. & Ratsarahery, L.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research Project

• Identifying sylvatic reservoir species of outbreak-prone arthropodborne viruses through large-scale serostatus mapping in African wildlife

  Ariën, K. & Janssens, N.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

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

  Benova, L. & Paessens, E.

  European Commission

  1/01/20 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research Project

• DeepMTB: Heteroresistance: an occult threat to the treatment success of resistant tuberculosis

  de Jong, B. & Janssens, N.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

• TB TRIAGE: Community-based tuberculosis triage testing after symptom screening in hard-to-reach African populations: CAD4TB versus C-reactive protein

  Lynen, L. & Baert, E.

  European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

• Advancing the state of patients rights’ enforcement in the public and private health care facilities in South India

  Putturaj, M., Marchal, B., Criel, B., Van Belle, S., Krumeich, A., Engel, N., Prakash, B. N. & Prashanth, N.

  1/01/20 → …

  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

• MOOD: MOnitoring Outbreak events for Disease surveillance in a data science context

  Müller, R. & Borremans, G.

  European Commission

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

• Examining barriers to providing good quality postnatal care:A mixed-methods study of global configurations of care and local clinical practice adaptations in Tanzania and Guinea.

  Laga, M. & Everaert, R.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/11/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research Project

• Vacc-iNTS: Advancing a GMMA-based vaccine against invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis through Phase I trial in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa

  Jacobs, J. & Baert, E.

  European Commission

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research Project

• Unravelling phenotypic and molecular traits of quiescent populations of Leishmania under drug pressure

  Jara Portocarrero, M., Dujardin, J. & Stas, M.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/10/19 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research 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 incidence and risk factors of mortality associated with HIV and TB infections in Kenya

  Onyango, D. O., van der Sande, M., Grobbee, D. E., Yuen, C. & Wandiga, S.

  3/07/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Scale-Up an integrated care package for diaBetes and hYpertension for vulnerable people in Cambodia, Slovenia and Belgium

  Danhieux, K., Damme, W. V., van Olmen, J., van Olmen, J., Remmen, R. & Wouters, E.

  3/07/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Resistance in gonorrhoea

  Van Dijck, C., Kenyon, C. & Malhotra-Kumar, S.

  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

• Using novel molecular approaches to understand the transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium leprae in the Comoros

  Braet, S., de Jong, B. & Rigouts, L.

  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

• A study of the Plasmodium vivax reticulocyte invasion pathways and ligand candidates, with special attention to the promising PvTRAg and PvRBP multigenic families.

  De Meulenaere, K., Rosanas-Urgell, A., Laukens, K., Cuypers, B., Kattenberg, J. H. & Monsieurs, P.

  11/04/19 → 10/04/23

  Project: PhD-project

• Evaluation of the role of immune checkpoint molecules in the natural killer cell-mediated anti-HIV response

  Laeremans, T., Vanham, G. & Aerts, J.

  11/04/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Development of a novel nanoparticle formulation for mRNA based therapeutic vaccination against HIV

  D'haese, S., Vanham, G., Aerts, J. & Allard, S. D.

  11/04/19 → …

  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

• THECA: Effect of a novel typhoid conjugate vaccine in Africa: a multicenter study in Ghana and the DRC

  Jacobs, J., Hardy, L. & Baert, E.

  1/01/19 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

• PreP_OPTIMIZE: Optimise PrEP to Maximise Impact

  Laga, M., Vuylsteke, B., Reyniers, T., Loos, J., Nöstlinger, C. & Van Aerde, K.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/01/19 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research Project

• Evaluation of Performance of Diabetes Care Initiatives implemented in Cambodia

  Te, V., Damme, W. V., Van Damme, W. & Ir, P.

  1/01/19 → …

  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

• Understanding why and how adolescent friendly conditions of health services affect the health outcomes of Nigerian adolescents living with HIV

  Badejo, O. A., Laga, M., Nöstlinger, C., Van Belle, S., Wouters, E. & Jolayemi, T.

  1/01/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Coordination of Multisectoral Action for Health in Uganda: Mechanisms, Actor Experiences, Motivations and Implications for Policy and Practice

  Ssennyonjo, A., Marchal, B., Criel, B., Van Belle, S., Titeca, K. & Ssengooba, F.

  1/01/19 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• SCUBY: Scaling-up of evidence-based health interventions at population level for the prevention and management of hypertension and/or diabetes

  van Olmen, J., Damme, W. V. & Van Aerde, K.

  European Commission

  1/01/19 → 31/12/22

  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

  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

• PReGo: Preventing Resistance in Gonorrhoea Study

  Kenyon, C., Buyze, J., Crucitti, T., Vuylsteke, B., Yusuf, E., De Wit, S., Pirnay, J., Soentjens, P. & Ratsarahery, L.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/10/18 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research Project

• MAD-LEI: Aneuploidy and mosaicism: a strategy for early adaptation todrug pressure in Leishmania

  Dujardin, J., Domagalska, M., Imamura, H., Van den Broeck, F., Monsieurs, P. & Stas, M.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/10/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research Project

• WGS-TB-DIAG: Whole Genome Sequencing to streamline TB diagnosis, improve TB surveillance and optimize individualized TB treatment a pragmatic trial

  Van Rie, A., Rigouts, L., Callens, S., Warren, R. M., Beutels, P. & Janssens, N.

  Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research Project

• TriDoRe: Novel High-Dose Tuberculosis Retreatment Regimens: How to overcome resistance without creating more?

  Lynen, L., de Jong, B., Van Deun, A., Decroo, T., Gumusboga, M., Meehan, C., Lempens, P., Rigouts, L., Ratsarahery, L., Van Herrewege, Y., Buyze, J. & Herssens, N.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/10/18 → 30/09/24

  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. & Baert, E.

  Flemish Government - Department of Economy, Science & Innovation

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  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

• Universal Health Coverage in Burkina Faso: analyzing the role of knowledge and dynamics affecting this role in national policy-making

  Kiendrebeogo, J. A., Damme, W. V., De Allegri, M. & Drabo, M.

  1/08/18 → …

  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

• 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

• Systems biological analysis of niche adaptation in resistant and virulent Salmonella pathogens

  Cuypers, W., Jacobs, J. & Laukens, K.

  26/04/18 → …

  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

• Hepatitis C/HIV coinfection in Cambodia: from pilot project to lessons learned for a public health approach

  De Weggheleire, A., Lynen, L. & Francque, S.

  26/04/18 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• LeishShield MATI: A multi-disciplinary international effort to identify clinical, molecular and social factors impacting cutaneous leishmaniasis

  Dujardin, J. & Stas, M.

  European Commission

  1/04/18 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research Project

• Primary Health Care improvement in Benin: which model(s) of practice work for First-Line Medical Doctors?

  Bello, O. A. K., Criel, B., Apers, L., De Lepeleire, J. & Zannou, M.

  1/04/18 → …

  Project: PhD-project

• Differentiated Implementation of HIV Treat All in Zimbabwe

  Makurumidze, R., Lynen, L., Decroo, T., Van Damme, W. & Rusakaniko, S.

  1/03/18 → …

  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