Founding director of the  Centre for Health Economics Research & Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID) 

Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Main research interests:

• health economic evaluation
• models of infectious diseases 
• economics of infectious disease prevention and control
• criteria for health care prioritisation

General background:

• Master in Applied Economics (Commercial Engineering); PhD in Medical Sciences (on health economics)
• Held positions at the University of Antwerp (since 1994), the University of Sydney (2003-2005) and the University of Technology at Sydney (2003-2005)
• Regular advisor for national and international institutions, including the following memberships:
  • Member of the Superior Health Council of Belgium
  • Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
  • Member of the "Immunization and vaccines related implementation research advisory committee (IVIR-AC)" of the World Health Organization (WHO)

Former PhD students (graduation year):

• Prof Anthony Newall (2008)
• Prof Joke Bilcke (2011)
• Dr Nele Goeyvaerts (2011)
• Prof Heidi Theeten (2011)
• Prof Jeroen Luyten (2014)
• Dr Jessica Fraeyman (2014)
• Prof Benson Ogunjimi (2015)
• Dr Lander Willem (2015)
• Dr Guillaume Béraud (2015)
• Dr Stefano Rivas Morales (2016)
• Dr Adriaan Blommaert (2016)
• Dr Yimer Wasihun Kifle (2017)

More info

• www.simid.be
• www.uantwerpen.be/chermid
• http://www.creimmunisation.com.au/people/associate-professor-philippe-beutels