Projects
Point of care gathering and real-time utilization of smartphone generated movement traces of patients for infectious disease containment in the community. KU Leuven
In this PhD thesis, we applied different methods in clinical and epidemiological studies to understand the factors that contributed to respiratory pathogen transmission. These insights could, in turn, improve pathogen surveillance and interruption of transmission.
In one chapter, we compared SARS-CoV-2 shedding in different respiratory samples and analytical tests – nasopharyngeal (NP) quantitative polymerase chain reaction ...
Infectious disease modelling consortium for public health Hasselt University
The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization–'Deadly Germs' in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958 KU Leuven
The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization – ‘Deadly Germs’ in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958 KU Leuven
The imagination of bacteria and viruses – invisible to the naked eye – was ubiquitous in popular culture from the Interwar Period onwards. State actors such as politicians, bureaucrats involved in the rapidly growing public health sector and military officers, as well as medical experts working on infectious
diseases, let their imagination run free on the hunt for ‘deadly germs’. Future visions of pandemics after
the ‘Spanish Flu’ ...