SIMID course 2018
Today starts the 7th SIMID course on "Infectious Disease Modelling and Health Economic Evaluation of Vaccines". (more…)
ERC TransMID workshop on Serology 15-16 May 2018 (Antwerp)
The ERC TransMID workshop on Serology will take place on 15 and 16 May 2018 in the city centre of Antwerp. The program is available here. To register, please send an email to info@simid.be (places limited).
Let snoops do their thing…
Prof. Niel Hens in the newspaper "De Standaard" on the current pitfalls of research funding in Flanders and the need to promote multidisciplinary research. More info on our "in the news" page.
Epidemiological evaluation of vaccines: efficacy, safety and policy
Anthony Scott and Stefan Flasche run an intensive 2-week course on The Epidemiological Evaluation of Vaccines at LSHTM. In 2018, the course will run from 2rd to 13th July. Although there are several courses in vaccinology, few are aimed at advanced epidemiological tools for vaccine evaluation. This course fills that gap, providing an understanding…
5-day IBM course @ SACEMA (14-18 May 2018)
We are pleased to announce the third version of the course “Individual-based Modeling in Epidemiology: a Practical Introduction”. Individual-based model, also frequently referred to as agent-based models, are a relatively new class of models suited to gain insight into the population dynamics of complex systems that emerge from the characteristics and interactions of individuals in…
Health economics research prize “Fernand Nedée” for Philippe Beutels
The first Belgian health economics research prize “Fernand Nedée” of the Royal Academy was awarded to Philippe Beutels for research on determinants of health care consumption and of quality of life, covering seven journal articles. This research line continues at CHERMID through an FWO project that started in 2017.
How can mathematics help to eliminate measles?
Prof. dr. Niel Hens gave a lecture for the "Universiteit van Vlaanderen" on mathematical modelling and measles. (more…)
Epidemics6 Conference
Nine SIMID members joined the Sixth International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics to share three days of intense dialogue on our ideas, data, insight, models and methods. It was great to promote our work and to meet other researchers to discuss future research opportunities. (more…)
What is the monetary value of quality adjusted life years?
Prof. Philippe Beutels explained the value of quality adjusted life years in "De Standaard" on Tuesday 21 November. (more…)
Workshop 2017: THANK YOU!
We would like to thank all the participants and speakers of the 7th SIMID-RESCEU-TransMID workshop. The presence and enthusiasm of such a variety of researchers make these meetings so worthwhile. We saw great and inspiring talks and had plenty of intensive and fruitful discussions. You can find some photos below.…