Global Health Institute search menu search content Florian VOGT Operational challenges during the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa Thesis summary Tremendous progress has been made in the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in recent years thanks to better and cheaper dru…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Jane ACHAN Challenges in the management of uncomplicated and severe malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa and new interactions between malaria and HIV treatments Thesis summary Background and Rationale Malaria is a public health problem in over 100 countrie…

Guido Erreygers emeritus with assignment Research Guido Erreygers Research team Economics Expertise I do research about history of economic thought, socioeconomic inequality of health, and linear production systems. Task complexity, framing effects and post-hoc individual-level model analysis in dis…

Sigrid Stroobants full professor Publications Sigrid Stroobants Structure-property investigation of new "KetoFAPI" inhibitors of fibroblast activation protein (FAP) : discovery of highly potent, selective compounds with prolonged residence times and promising radiotheranostic potential Source Journa…

Yves Jacquemyn professor Research Yves Jacquemyn Research team Antwerp Surgical Training, Anatomy and Research Centre (ASTARC) Global Health Institute (GHI) Expertise anythig concerning pelvic floor pathology ,myoma, endometriosis, preeclampsia, pregnancy, prenatal ultrasound, maternal health care p…

Global Health Institute search menu search content MEPI Alumni Meeting 2023 (Europe based MEPI alumni ) 20-22/09/2023 In July 2022, with the support of VLIR-UOS, the Global Health Institute reunited our academic staff with Master of Epidemiology alumni in Tanga, Tanzania, for our very first Alumni E…

Fuatilia Maji search menu search content Academic output Publications Publications on Fuatilia Maji Research Brief: Added Value of Community Based Monitoring (CBM): Lessons from the Fuatilia Maji Project | Jenipher Biira Salamula, Josué Guerrero Calle, Nathalie Holvoet and Sara Dewachter Lessons fr…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Tom DECROO Community-based ART in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons learnt from Community ART Groups in Tete province, Mozambique Thesis abstract Globally an estimated 36.7 million people are living with HIV (PLHIV). By June 2016, 18.2 million were enroll…

Wendt Müller research professor Family Ecology Unit Wendt Müller Current members As a team we aspire to achieve excellence in our research by fostering a supportive and inclusive research environment. PhD students Tim Andries (PhD) Sources of individual variation (in the mechanics) of feeding beha…

John-Paul Bogers full professor Research John-Paul Bogers Research team Laboratory of cell biology and histology Global Health Institute (GHI) Community engagement and novel technologies: a winning team for the integral management of cervical cancer in a rural context. 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 Abstra…

Marijke Verpoorten professor Research Marijke Verpoorten Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise My research focuses on the economic causes and consequences of armed conflict; on natural resources, religion, global supply chains; and more broadly, on the economic and insti…

Surbhi Malhotra professor Research Surbhi Malhotra Research team Laboratory of Medical Microbiology (LMM) Expertise My research focuses on: (1) Investigating the impact of antibiotic use on human pathogens and commensal flora utilizing genetic, genomic and microbiomic approaches: Utilizing the oro-p…

Jean-Pierre Van geertruyden full professor Research Jean-Pierre Van geertruyden Research team Global Health Institute (GHI) Expertise My main expertise lies in bio-statistical support, designing and implementing (clinical) epidemiological study designs and conducting clinical trials (Phase 1-2-3). (…

Wendt Müller research professor seminars Wendt Müller Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2022-23 The next seminar is on Thursday 17th of November (12h15 in D 0.39): Jana Tesikova (EVECO) Virus hunting: the diversity of selected rodent-borne viruses. Valentina Burskaya (EVECO) Does hybridization fac…

Medicine and Health Sciences Public defences 2023 Find the archive of concluded doctoral research Public defences 2023 Find the archive of concluded doctoral research Dynamics of lower limb impairment & standing balance early post-stroke - measurement, mechanisms & treatment - Jonas Schröder (22/12…

Stefaan Marysse emeritus occasional assignment Research Stefaan Marysse Research team Local Governance and post-conflict development. 22/04/2007 - 21/04/2009 Abstract Researcher(s) Promoter: Marysse Stefaan Research team(s) Project type(s) Research Project Poverty and poverty reduction in the great …

Wendt Müller research professor Research Wendt Müller Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Expertise Movement Ecology: studying foraging behaviour, migration and parental care. Behavioural Ecology: using natural populations and field-based research to investigate the effects of natura…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Research Projects Ongoing projects Early-Life Exposure to Antibiotics and Proton Pump Inhibitors: Utilization Patterns, Microbiome Impact, and Short-Term Health Outcomes. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract Early-life exposure to antibiotics and proton…

Economics search menu search content Research projects Ongoing projects Preferential Trade Agreements and Non-Tariff Barriers. 01/05/2024 - 30/04/2028 Abstract The nature of trade agreements has changed in recent decades. While they were centered around mutual tariff reduction, they have now a much …

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Presentations On the occasion of trainings, seminars and other activities, BOS-staff are invited to present their views. To keep an overview, we grouped the presentations per year and around the three pillars of the project: Political Econom…

Sarah Weckhuysen associate professor - fund. clinical researcher Research Sarah Weckhuysen Research team Translational Neurosciences (TNW) Expertise The focus of my research group is the elucidation of the molecular basis of genetic epilepsies. State-of-the-art genetic strategies resulted in the ide…

Science Public defences 2025 Attend a phd defence or search the archive of concluded doctoral research Public defences 2025 Attend a phd defence or search the archive of concluded doctoral research Taming Terrestrial Tremors: Low-Frequency Displacement-Sensing Techniques for Gravitational-Wave Detec…

Nathalie Holvoet full professor - chair of IOB Research Nathalie Holvoet Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise -monitoring and evaluation in the field of development cooperation (M&E methods, but also analysis of M&E systems, policy, use and influence of evaluation, impa…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Analyses and Policy Briefs Analyses and Policy Briefs are crisp and sharp briefs that offer analysis and/or policy recommendations, and generally make reference to more extensive IOB research outputs. These are typically two- or four-pagers …

Laboratory of Cell Biology and Histology search menu search content Projects Cell Biology & Histology Ongoing projects Metal microanalysis as input for dosimetry of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. 01/12/2025 - 30/11/2029 Abstract Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) is a rapidly advancing branch of…