Are you working from home? What about the kids? Would you still shake someone’s hand? If we all answer this short questionnaire en masse, experts will be better able to assess the evolution of the corona curve. The impact of the measures will only be visible in the hospitalisation rates 10 to 14 days after they were launched. This is due to the incubation period and how COVID19 progresses. more info: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/corona-study/

If half of the Belgians would telework, it can really make a difference in #flattenthecurve! Using our meta-population model for Belgium, we are analysing many distancing scenarios and made a first press release in de Standaard on March 17. See our cover-19 page for other ongoing projects.

We are happy to announce that our yearly course is integrated in the Antwerp Summer University initiative and will take place from 7-11 September 2020 in collaboration with Hasselt University and the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp. (more…)

This crash course is intended to provide the fundamentals of modelling and public health decision-making, including cost-effectiveness analysis and health care operations (and not just infectious disease modelling). More info at https://cvent.me/RVrng

Prof. Niel Hens gave an interview for the EU Research magazine on the TransMID project and it implications for public health. Within the project, new sophisticated methods are developed to model transmission dynamics of infectious diseases more accurately. Read the full article here or download the pdf.