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Curriculum Vitae Niel Hens Updated: March 31, 2016 Personal Information Address Current Work Address Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics Hasselt University, Campus Diepenbeek Agoralaan 1, gebouw D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Phone: +32-11-268232 Fax: +32-11-268299 Email: [email protected] Homepage: www.censtat.uhasselt.be and Centre for Health Economics Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (WHO Collaborating Centre) University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium Phone: +32-3-2652658 Fax: +32-3-2652540 Email: [email protected] Homepage: www.uantwerp.be/chermid Home Address Kanunnik Davidlaan 41, 3550 Heusden-Zolder Belgium Phone: +32-11-720814 Phone (mobile): +32-496-749191 Email: [email protected] Personal Details Gender: Male Date of Birth: 29th of June, 1977 Place of Birth: Turnhout, Belgium Present Citizenship: Belgian Marital Status: Married to Kelly Jannis Children: Lena Hens (F) 30th of June 2007; Louisa Hens (F) 9th of September 2011; Leonie Hens (F) 12th of May 2014 1 Other Interests 22 years of basketball at an amateur level with 10 years of coaching; holder of the degree: Basketball Initiator (Flemish school of trainers). Education Degrees obtained: Bachelor in Mathematics Master in Mathematics Aggregate in Teaching Doctor in Science, Mathematics Master in Science, Biostatistics July 13, 1997 July 8, 1999 February 22, 2001 June 10, 2005 November 10, 2005 LUC KUL KUL LUC UH KUL: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) LUC: Limburgs Universitair Centrum (Limburgs University Centre, Belgium) UH: Universiteit Hasselt (Hasselt University, Belgium, former LUC) Theses Master Thesis “Cellular Automata and Reaction-diffusion equations from the first degree” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, June, 1999. Supervisor: Dr. Eric Pauwels Doctoral Thesis “Non- and Semi-parametric techniques for handling missing data” Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium, June, 10, 2005. Supervisor: Prof. dr. Marc Aerts & Prof. dr. Geert Molenberghs Master of Science Thesis “Modelling Age-time Dependent Incidence Rates for Hepatitis B in Bulgaria: 1983-2000” at Hasselt University, November 10, 2005. Supervisor: Prof. dr. Marc Aerts Working Experience Teaching assistant, LUC: September 9, 1999 - December 31, 2004 Research assistant, LUC, grant FWO G.0393.04: January 1, 2005 - June 30, 2005 Doctoral researcher, UH, grant FWO G.0393.04: July 1, 2005 - December 31, 2006 Doctoral researcher, UH, grant POLYMOD: January 1, 2007 - February 28, 2007 Doctoral researcher, UH, grant SBO SIMID: March 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008 Doctoral researcher (90%), UH, grant Methusalem: October 1, 2008 - August 31, 2010 Guest professor (10%), UH: October 1, 2008 - August 31, 2010 Guest professor (50% - article 95), University of Antwerp: February 1, 2009 - December 31, 2013 Assistant professor (100%), UH: September 2010 - December, 31, 2014 Associate professor (50% - article 95), University of Antwerp: since January 1, 2014 - ongoing Associate professor (100%), UH: since January 1, 2015 - ongoing Scientific collaborator, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium: February 1, 2010 - ongoing 2 Language Knowledge Dutch: native; English: near native (C1 certified); French: basic knowledge; German: basic knowledge. Computing and Software Experience Statistics: GAUSS, R, SAS, SPSS Mathematics: Maple, Mathematica, Matlab Other: LATEX, Microsoft Office Activities for the Profession - Session on the development of Toetsmatrijzen, University of Antwerp, 18 October 2015 - Media training, University of Antwerp, 23 March 2015 - Use of online voting systems: Poll Everywhere and Socrative (28/09/2015) - Onderwijsdag Universiteit Hasselt (17/11/2015) - Professionaliseringssessie OMT BMW (16/11/2015) Awards July 17, 2003: 1st Prize Poster Competition: “The Likelihood Ratio Test For Missing Not At Random” (Hens, N., Aerts, G., Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H.) 17 th IWSM, Leuven, Belgium March 30th - April 1st, 2005: 1st Prize Poster Competition: ”Modelling the Herd-specific Force Of Infection for BoHV-1: The Influence of Clustering” (Faes, C., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Geys, H., Mintiens, K., Laevens, H., Boelaert, F.) Annual Conference of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Nairn, Scotland May 12, 2006: Quetelet Prize for Master Thesis in Biostatistics: 2005-2006. “Modeling Age-time Dependent Incidence Rates of Hepatitis B in Bulgaria: 1983-2000.” February 1, 2009 Scientific Chair ‘Evidence-based vaccinology’ with promotors Prof. dr. Philippe Beutels and Prof. dr. Pierre Van Damme. Antwerp University, Belgium. Top-article JRSS-C for the year 2010. Goeyvaerts et al. 2010. Mathematical Biosciences Top Cited Article 2008-2010. Ogunjimi et al. 2009. November 19-22, 2013: Poster Prize: ‘Exploring Infectious Disease Models Through Active Learning to Improve Policy Making’, 4th Epidemics conference, Amsterdam 2013 3 Projects/Grants - Collaborator UH: FWO G039304: ‘Statistical properties of the force of infection, the contact matrix and the reproduction rate: estimation, interrelation and impact on mathematical models for the dynamic transmission of infectious diseases’. Improving public health policy in Europe through Modelling and Economic Evaluation (POLYMOD, EU project 6th framework). IWT: Simulation models of infectious disease transmission and control processes (SIMID), with applications to five major health policy issues in Flanders: 2007-2011. Methusalem project - VAXINFECTIO (University of Antwerp, Belgium) - Center for Statistics (Hasselt University, Belgium): 2008-2015. Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), PI: Scott Halperin, 2015-2017 (Co-)Promotor of the Following Research Projects UH: WHO grant on collecting social contact data in South-East Asia: 2009-2010 (10,000 US dollar). FWO onderzoeksproject ‘Informatie-gestuurde modellering van de impact van vervroegde HIV behandeling op de incidentie van HIV in Zuidelijk Afrika (2010-2013)’ (80,000 euro) AXA Research Fellowship dr. Nele Goeyvaerts (2011-2013: 80,000 euro) FWO onderzoeksproject ‘Kwantificering van varicella-zoster virus boosting mechanismen met hun volksgezondheidsimplicaties voor vaccinatie (2011-2014)’ (87,000 euro) KCE-influenza study: 2011-2012 (50,000 euro) BOF NI grant ‘Infectious disease modelling using new statistical methodology based on network theory and incomplete data methodology’ University of Hasselt: 2011-2014 (PhD position 160,000 euro) BOF Short Stays ‘Estimating vaccination coverage based on trivariate serological data and incidence data’ 2-month visit of James Wood to the Center for Statistics: 2011 (10,000 euro) Contact patterns in Peru, Vanderbilt University: 2012-2013 (15,000 US dollar) BOF bilateral grant Guillaume Béraud, Hasselt University: 2014-2017 (31,115.2 euro) Aspire contract Pfizer - UHasselt 2014: 6750 euro FWO Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksgemeenschap: ‘Network Statistics for Sexually Transmitted Infections Epidemiology’ 2014-2018 (62,500 euro) Research project in collaboration with Stellenbosch University, South Africa: 2014-2015 (94,329 euro) FWO postdoctoral fellow: Wim Delva (270,000 euro), role: promotor FWO Tournesol Travel Grants (9040 euro), role: PI FWO bilateral grant - Quebec: PI Annemie van Damme (KU Leuven): 2016-2017 (50,000 euro), role: co-PI ERC consolidator grant: (1,6m euro) role: PI Marie Curie fellowship: Benny Borremans (258,530 euro): promotor together with Jamie Lloyd Smith (UCLA) UA: Analyses to support the validation of the estimated persistence of immunity provided by Havrix: 2010-2011 (61,835 euro) BOF/ID The development and the optimization of stochastic individual-based simulation models by means of parallel multicore computing: 2011-2013 (PhD position - 180,000 euro) ABC-RBOD A Retrospective Study to Assess the Clinical Burden of Hospitalized CommunityAcquired Pneumonia (CAP) in Adults in Belgium, following the Statistical Analysis Plan (S - SAP) 23 February 2010 (CARENET-database): 2011 (1500 euro) 4 FAGG: Research related to intussusception and rotavirus vaccination: 2011 (8264 euro) FAGG: Research related to the Guillain-Barré syndrome and Pandemrix vaccination: 20112012 (10,000 euro) Quantification of varicella-zoster virus infection: from immunology to epidemiology: 2012-2014 (160,000 euro) Quantification of varicella-zoster virus boosting mechanisms with their public health implication for vaccination: 2013-2015 (143,000 euro) Analyses to support the validation of the estimated persistence of immunity provided by Havrix: 2014 (30,000 euro) 5 Referee of the following journals American Journal of Epidemiology (2), Biometrical Journal (1), Biometrics (7), Biometrika (1), Biostatistics (1), BMC infectious diseases (3), BMC public health (2), Columbian Journal of Statistics (1), CSDA (4), Emerging Themes In Epidemiology (1), Epidemics (4), Epidemiology and Infection (6), Eurosurveillance (2), Fundamenta Informaticae (1), International Journal of Biostatistics (1), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (1), JABES (1), Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (1), Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (1), Journal of the Royal Society Interface (1), JRSS-A (1), Lancet Infectious Diseases (3), Malaria Journal (1), Mathematical Biosciences (2), Nature Communications (1), Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (1), Statistics in Medicine (8), Statistical Modelling (3); PLoS Computational Biology (3); PLoS One (3); Statistical Method in Medical Research (1), Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling (1) Associate Editor for Biometrics since 2011 (20); for Biostatistics since 2012 (26). Referee of Project Applications FWO mandates: 2010 (2); prize: 2015 (1) RIVM project: 2010 (1); 2013 (2) Food and Health Bureau (FHB) of the Hong Kong SAR Government: 2012 (1), 2013 (1), 2014 (1), 2015 (1) IWT mandates: 2013 (11) ASPIRE EU: 2014 (18) HKU The Croucher Foundation: 2015 (1) Referee of Research Institutes - AERES: CNAM, Paris (PI: William Dab), 9 December 2012. Referee of Education Institutes - Universiteit van Wageningen, Wageningen (PI: Fred Van Eeuwijk), 16 June 2015 Former PhD-students UH Nele Goeyvaerts: Statistical and Mathematical Models to Estimate the Transmission of Airborne Infections from Current Status Data. PhD student SBOSIMID grant together with Prof. dr. Marc Aerts and Prof. dr. Philippe Beutels. End: February 2011; role: supervisor co, UH An Creemers: Models for Incomplete and Clustered Data with Applications in Clinical Trials and Health Economic Studies. PhD student/teaching assistant together with Prof. dr. Marc Aerts. End: June 2011; role co-supervisor co, UH Girma Minalu: Using Statistical Methodology for Integrated Vaccine and Microbiological Research, with a Focus on Antibiotic Use and the Containment of Antibiotic Resistance. PhD student Methusalem-grant together with Prof. dr. Marc Aerts. End: September 2012; role: co-supervisor UH Amin Azmon: Modeling Epidemics Using Modern Statistical Methods. PhD student Methusalemgrant together with Prof. dr. Christel Faes: 2010-2014: role: supervisor co-UH Amparo Castro Sanchez: Mathematical and Statistical Models for HIV and Co-Infections. PhD student BOF-grant together with Prof. dr. Marc Aerts: 2008-2014 6 UH Benson Ogunjimi: Kwantificering van varicella-zoster virus boosting mechanismes met hun volksgezondheidsimplicaties voor vaccinatie’ (FWO referentienummer G040912N) PhD student FWO together with Prof. dr. Philippe Beutels and Prof. dr. Vigo Van Tendeloo: 2011-2015; role: supervisor UH Lander Willem: Developing and optimizing stochastic individual-based infectious disease simulation models by parallel multicore computing techniques. PhD student UA together with Prof. dr. Jan Broeckhove and Prof. dr. Philippe Beutels: 2010-2015; role: supervisor UH Steven Abrams: Statistical models for estimating heterogeneity in acquisition of infectious diseases and outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations. PhD student BOF NI together with Prof. dr. Geert Molenberghs: 2011-2015; role: supervisor co-UH Yannick Vandendijck: Semi-Parametric Methods for Applications in Survey Data and Geostatistical Data PhD student BOF together with Prof. dr. Christel Faes: 2011-2015; role: co-supervisor UH Guillaume Béraud: Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases. PhD jointly with l’Université de Poitiers: 2013-2015; role: supervisor UH Adriaan Blommaert: Statistical and mathematical models to study economic and epidemiological aspects of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination and antibiotic consumption. PhD student UA-grant together with Prof. dr. Philippe Beutels: 2010-2016 PhD (co-)supervisor UH Kim Van Kerckhove: Estimating transmission rates from incidence data using contact data and a network-based approach. PhD student/teaching assistant together with Prof. dr. John Edmunds and Dr. Ken Eames: 2010-2017 co, UH Osvaldo Loquiha: Statistical and Mathematical Methodology for Epidemiology and Public Health, with focus on Reproductive Health & AIDS/HIV in Mozambique. PhD student VLIR-grant together with Prof. dr. Marc Aerts and Prof. dr. Marleen Temmerman: 2011-2015 UH Fei Meng: Individual-based modelling of HIV prevention and treatment in South Africa. PhD student VLIR-grant together with Prof. dr. Marc Aerts, Prof dr. Marleen Temmerman and Dr. Wim Delva: 2011-2015 UH Eva Santermans: Statistical and mathematical perspectives on present-day infectious disease epidemiology and hematology. PhD student Methusalem together with Prof. dr. Geert Molenberghs and Prof. dr. Marc Aerts: 2012-2016 UH Robin Bruyndonckx: Modeling Antibiotic use and resistance. PhD student Methusalem joint PhD UH together with Prof. dr. Marc Aerts & UA together with Prof. dr. Samuel Coenen: 2012-2016 UH Yimer Kifle Wasihun: Statistical and mathematical methods to improve models of infectious disease transmission between humans and animals and/or vectors . Joint PhD UA, UH together with Philippe Beutels and Christel Faes 2013-2017 UH Levicatus Mugenyi: Modelling Malaria in Uganda. ICP PhD Scholarship with Sarah Staedke: 2013-2017 co, UH Roxanne Beauclair together with Wim Delva: 2014-2017 co, UH Tapiwa Ganyani together with Christel Faes: 2014-2020 UH Thomas Kovac together with Frank Van Reeth: 2015-2018 UH Thiago Gentil together with Edwin Moises Marcos Ortega: 2015-2016 UH,UA Nina Keersmaekers together with Philippe Beutels, Pierre Van Damme: 2015-2019 UH Thao Mai Phuong Tran together with Christel Faes, Philippe Beutels: 2015-2019 UH Toon Braeye: Jan 2016 - Dec 2020 7 Scientific Collaborator Koen Vanden Driesche (UMCN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Frequent Member of the Following Juries Master in Science: Applied Statistics, Hasselt University (former LUC) Master in Science: Biostatistics, Hasselt University (former LUC) Master in Applied Economic Sciences, Hasselt University Member of PhD Committees/PhD Juries Wim Delva (UGent): promoters: Marleen Temmerman, Stijn Vansteelandt - Thesis Defense: May 2010 - jury member Emanuele Del Fava (UHasselt): promoters: Ziv Shkedy, Piero Manfredi - Thesis Defense: September 2012 - jury member Aklilu Ghebretinsae (UHasselt): promoters: Christel Faes, Geert Molenberghs - Thesis Defense: September 2013 - jury member Mehreteab Fantahun Aregay (UHasselt): promoters: Geert Molenberghs, Geert Verbeke, Ziv Shkedy - Thesis Defense: September 2013 - jury member Bewketu Bekele (Stellenbosch University): promotors Rachid Ouifki and Wim Delva - Thesis Defense - January 2014 - externel expert Reshma Kassanjee (Stellenbosch University): promotor: Alex Welte - September 2014 - externel expert Chellafe Ensoy (UHasselt): promoters: Christel Faes, Marc Aerts - Thesis Defense - September 2014 - jury member Felix Weidemann (Ludwig-Maximilians, University of Munich), Michael Höhle, Volker Schmidt December 2015 - jury member Sebastian Meyer (University of Zürich), Leonhard Held - January 2016 - external expert Ruth Nysten (UHasselt): promoters: Marc Aerts, Christel Faes Suzanne Smit (UCL): Niko Speybroeck, Jozef Vercruysse and Pierre Dorny Joseph Okebe (UA): Jean-Pierre van Geertruyden Alan Vazquez Alcocer (UA): Peter Goos Abhishek Bakuli (Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig Germany): Rafael Mikolajczyk Wim De Mulder (I-Biostat, KU Leuven), Geert Molenberghs en Geert Verbeke Wilfried Bonou (ULg), Philippe Lambert 8 Member of the Following Committees Expert panel for the FAVV (federal food safety authority) Belgium (2007-2012). Scientific advisor NIHR fellow Dr. Ken Eames (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2011-2014). Scientific advisor Centre of Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases Modelling to Inform Public Health Policy. NHMRC grant Australie: PI Jodie McVernon (University of Melbourne). Member of the Organizing Committee Survey Methodology. VEE-studiedag Diepenbeek, Belgium, October 27th, 2005. 1st SIMID Workshop. CHERMID (CEV,Vaxinfectio), University of Antwerp, April 12-14, 2010. 2nd SIMID Workshop. CHERMID (CEV,Vaxinfectio), University of Antwerp, January 31 - February 2, 2011. 19th meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Hasselt, October 12-14, 2011. 3rd SIMID Workshop. CENSTAT, Hasselt University, April 25-27, 2012. 4th SIMID Workshop. CHERMID (CEV,Vaxinfectio), University of Antwerp, April 17-18, 2013. 5th SIMID Workshop. CENSTAT, Hasselt University, April 16-17, 2014. WOG Summer School on Networks. Ghent University, August 18-22, 2014. WOG kick-off meeting, Hasselt University, 2-3 December 2014. 6th SIMID Workshop. CHERMID, University of Antwerp, April 28-29, 2015. 7th SIMID Workshop - slim version. CENSTAT, Hasselt University, April 25, 2016 Member of the Scientific Committee 1st SIMID Workshop. CHERMID (CEV,Vaxinfectio), University of Antwerp, April 12-14, 2010. 2nd SIMID Workshop. CHERMID (CEV,Vaxinfectio), University of Antwerp, January 31 - February 2, 2011. 3rd SIMID Workshop. CENSTAT, Hasselt University, April 25-27, 2012. 4th SIMID Workshop. CHERMID (CEV,Vaxinfectio), University of Antwerp, April 17-18, 2013. 5th SIMID Workshop. CENSTAT, Hasselt University, April 16-17, 2014. ICCS 2013 Barcelona, 16-20 September 2013 20th meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Gent, 9-11 October 2013 Hexa-symposium on Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology. Celebration event of the Center for Statistics, November 14-15, 2013 - President 6th SIMID Workshop. CHERMID, University of Antwerp, April 28-29, 2015. 22nd meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Antwerp, October 14-16, 2015 - President ISCB 2015, Utrecht, 23-27 August 2015 - Scientific Committee 7th SIMID Workshop - slim version. CENSTAT, Hasselt University, April 25, 2016 9 Member of the following Associations - Belgian Statistical Society, since 1999; board member since 2015 - Quetelet Society, since 1999; board member since 2016 (-2018) - American Statistical Association, since 2010 - BAPH, since 2010 - EUPHA, since 2011 Contributor to Science Communication Activities - Zeg’t Eens! Summerschool voor wet. com. en communicatieve vaardigheden. 2-4 July 2014, Brussels. - Invited presentation at the 1st Science Festival of Hasselt University ‘De onvoorspelbaarheid van de Ebola uitbraak in West Afrika’, 9 May 2015, Hasselt - Spectrumlezing UA: ‘Wiskunde en statistiek als hulpmiddel om de verspreiding van infectieziekten te voorspellen en in te dijken’, 26 Nov 2015 - Prof. voor de klas: 5 lessen per jaar sinds 2011 10 Contents Referee of Research Institutes 6 Referee of Education Institutes 6 RESEARCH 12 Main Research Interests 12 Research Visits 12 Research Visits to I-Biostat (from 2012) 13 Current Research Cooperation with Others (outside I-biostat/Vaxinfectio) 14 Publications 14 Presentations 27 Conferences, Workshops and Symposia (attendance only) 33 Courses (attendance only) 34 EDUCATION 34 Short Courses 34 Committees 35 Teaching Activities 35 Master Theses Supervision 40 11 RESEARCH Main Research Interests Modelling Infectious Diseases: Prevalence, Force of Infection, Transmission Parameters, Vaccination, Mathematical Modelling, Stochastic Models, Network Models,. . . Missing Data: Multiple Imputation, Inverse Probability Weighting, Nonresponse, Missing Covariates, Selection Models, Shared Parameter Models, Influence Measures, . . . Clustering: GEE, Random Effects, . . . Data Mining: Classification and Regression Trees, Bagging, Boosting, Random Forests, Association Rules, Clustering, . . . Model Selection Criteria, Multi-model Inference: AIC, BIC, AICW , AICS . . . Non-and Semi-parametrics: Bootstrap, Kernel Density Estimators, Bandwidth and cross validation, . . . Research Visits - Research visit at the Health Protection Agency in London on the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases in collaboration with John Edmunds and Nigel Gay. 1-18 May, 2006// 13-16 December, 2006// 11-13 June, 2007. - Research visit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on statistical analyses of serological samples and avenues for further research with John Edmunds and Nigel Gay. 22-26 February, 2009// 12-15 December, 2010// 18-19 April, 2011. - Research visit at the Martin-Luther Universität Halle - Wittenberg on modelling current status data in collaboration with Andreas Wienke. 16-17 January, 2008// 24-26 July, 2012 - Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus in collaboration with Kostas Fokianos and Marc Aerts 2-3 November, 2005 - Research visit at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Estimating vaccination coverage from trivariate MMR serological data with James Wood. 8-12 September, 2010 - Research visit at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Estimation of delay in stochastic epidemic models with Slavik Koval and Odo Diekmann 15 -19 December, 2008 - Research visit at the University of Washington, Seattle. Stochastic modelling of pandemic influenza with Elizabeth Halloran and Ira Longini. 21 July - 21 August, 2008, 22 -24 June, 2009 - Research visit at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. Modelling Infectious Diseases with Marc Lipsitch. 8-14 May, 2011 - Research visit at INSERM, Paris. Meta-population models and contact patterns with Vittoria Colizza 7-8 February, 2013 12 Research Visits to I-Biostat (from 2012) - Giancarlo Camarda (Max Planck Institute, Rostock, Germany) 15-17 February 2012 - James Wood (UNSW, Sydney, Australia) 23-27 April 2012 - Trish Campbell (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia) 17-21 September 2012 - Guillaume Béraud (Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France) 12-16 November 2012 - Michael Höhle (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany) 22-23 November 2012 & 10-16 December 2012 - James Wood (UNSW, Sydney, Australia) 11 April - 20 April 2013 - Vittoria Colizza (INSERM), 10-11 February 2014 - Ken Eames (LSHTM), 11-12 February 2014 - James Wood (UNSW, Sydney, Australia) 7 April - 17 April 2014 - Rebecca Nsubuga (Medical Research Council, Uganda Virus Research Institute) 12 May - 1 June 2014 13 Current Research Cooperation with Others (outside I-biostat/Vaxinfectio) - Wim Delva (UGent, Belgium) “HIV and networks” - John Edmunds, Nigel Gay and Alessia Melagaro (Health Protection Agency, London, UK) “Elucidation on differences in the sero-epidemiology of VZV and B19 in five European countries.” - John Edmunds & Ken Eames (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK) - Paul Eilers (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and Carlo Giovanni Camardo (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.) “A constrained smoothing approach” - Carlos Gijalva (VanderBilt University, Nashville, US) Contact patterns in Peru - Gail Potter (University of Washington, Seattle, US) “Estimating network structures from egocentric data” - Jacco Wallinga (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) “Generation interval contraction” - Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba (University of Rome Tor Vergata Rome, Italy) “Generation interval contraction” - Andreas Wienke (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) “Modelling bivariate current status data” - Peter Horby (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K) “Social contact patterns in Vietnam and its relationship to H1N1 incidence” - James Wood (University of New South Wales) “Estimating vaccination coverage from trivariate serological data” Publications h-index: 21 (WoK), 28 (Google Scholar) Book - Hens, N., Shkedy, Z., Aerts, M., Faes, C., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, P. Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data: A Modern Statistical Perspective. Springer-verlag New York. 2012 Book Chapters - Hens, N.. (2008) Exploiting Data for Risk Evaluation. In: Scientific exploitation of databases within the framework of food safety risk assessment. Federal Food Safety Authority. Brussels, Belgium - Theeten, H., Lefevere, E., Vandermeulen, C., Van Damme, P. and Hens, N. (2013) Factors influencing infant and adolescent vaccine uptake in Flanders, Belgium. In: Modeling the Interplay Between Human Behavior and the Spread of Infectious Diseases. Editors: Piero Manfredi and Alberto d’Onofrio. Springer-Verlag. - Praet Jelle, Santermans Eva, Reekmans Kristien, de Vocht Nathalie, Le Blon Debbie, Hoornaert Chloé, Daans Jasmijn, Goossens Herman, Berneman Zwi Nisan, Hens Niel, van der Linden AnneMarie, Ponsaerts Peter.- Histological characterization and quantification of cellular events following neural and fibroblast(-like) stem cell grafting in healthy and demyelinated CNS tissue Animal models for stem cell therapy / Christ, Bruno [edit.]; et al. - ISBN 978-1-4939-1453-1 - New York, N.Y., Springer Science + Business Media, 2014, p. 265-283 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-49391453-1-22 14 Reports - Beutels P, Luyten J, Lejeune O, Hens N, Bilcke J, De Schrijver K, et al. Evaluatie van universele en doelgroep hepatitis A vaccinatie opties in België. Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Brussel: Federaal Kenniscentrum voor de Gezondheidszorg (KCE); 2008. KCE reports 98A (D/2008/10.273/88) - Bilcke J., Marais C., Ogunjimi B., van Hoek A.J., Lejeune O., Callens M., Vancorenland S., van Kerschaver E., Callaerts K.., Hens N., van Damme P., Beutels P. Cost-utility of vaccination against chickenpox in children and against herpes zoster in elderly in Belgium Brussels: Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, 2010.- 134 p. - (KCE reports ; 151) - Beutels, P., Vandendijck, Y., Willem, L., Goeyvaerts N., Blommaert A., Van Kerckhove, K., Bilcke J., Hanquet G., Neels, P., Thiry N., Liesenborgs, J., Hens, N. Seasonal influenza vaccination: prioritizing children or other target groups? Part II: cost-effectiveness analysis 2013, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Brussels: Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE). p. KCE Reports 204. D/2013/10.273/43. - Lambert, M.L., Hammami, N., Catry, B., Bruyndonckx, R., Aerts, M., Hens, N. Antimicrobial consumption in Belgian hospitals for selected diagnoses 1999-2010 and assciation with policies aimed at promoting rational use. Scientific Institute of Public Health, 2014 - 72p - Contributed to: ‘Impact van luchtvervuiling en klimaat op korte termijn mortaliteit in BelgiŚ’ Na, CES-2014-02 by Katrien Tersago for the ‘Nationaal Actieplan voor Milieu en Gezondheid (NEHAP), België’ Collaborators: Nathalie Bossuyt (WIV-ISP), Frans Fierens (IRCEL), Niel Hens (UH, UA), Pascal Mailier (KMI) en Sophie Quoilin (WIV-ISP), 2015. National Refereed Journals - Hens, N., Bruckers, L., Arbyn, M., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G. (2002). “Classification trees and its application to cervix cancer screening in the Belgian Health Interview Survey 1997.” Archives of Public Health, 60, 275-294. - Theeten, H., Roelants, M., Lernout, T., Braeckman, T., Hens, N., Hoppenbrouwers, K., Van Damme, P. (2013) Vaccinatiegraad bij jonge kinderen en adolescenten in Vlaanderen in 2012. Infectieziektebulletin, 4, 86 International Refereed Journals Letters - Coenen, S., Bruyndonckx, R., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Goossens, H. (2014) Comment on: Measurement units for antibiotic consumption in outpatients. J. Antimicrob Chemother 69, 12, 3445-3446 doi:10.1093/jac/dku292 - Vanden Driessche, K., Hens, N., Tilley, P., Quon, B.S., Chilvers, M.A., de Groot, R., Cotton, M.F., Marais, B., Speert, D.P., Zlosnik, (2015) J.E.A. Effect of masks on airborne spread of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by people with cystic fibrosis when coughing. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 192 (7), 897-899 A2 Journals A2 Del Fava, E., Kasim, A.S., Usman, M., Shkedy, Z., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Bollaerts, K., Scalia Tomba, G., Vickerman, P., Sutton, A.J., Wiessing, L. and Kretzschmar, M. (2011) The Co-Infection between HCV and HIV: A Joint Modeling Approach. Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases, 3, 1, 1 A2 Del Fava, E., Shkedy, Z., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Suligoi, B., Vallejo, F., Wiessing, L., Kretzschmar, M. (2011) ‘Joint Modeling of HCV and HIV Infections among Injecting Drug Users in Italy Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Prevalence Data.’ Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1. 15 A2? Leuridan, E., Ieven, M., Hens, N., Van Damme, P. (2012) High susceptibility to cytomegalovirus infection of pregnant women in Flanders, Belgium. FVV in ObGyn, 4(2), 76-81. A2 Acheampong, E., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Okyere, E., Boyetey, D. (2014) On a Model for the Cross Protection of Two Infectious Diseases. Mathematical Theory and Modeling, 4(2). A1 Journals 2002 1. Aerts, M., Claeskens, G., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G. (2002). Biometrika, 89, 375-388. “Local multiple imputation.” 2004 2. Speybroeck, N., Berkvens, D., Mfoukou-Ntsakala, A., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Van Huylenbroeck, G. and Thys, E. (2004) “Classification trees versus multinomial models in the analysis of urban farming systems in Central Africa.” Agricultural Systems, 80(2),133-149. 2005 3. Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H., Verbeke G. (2005) “Kernel Weighted Influence Measures.” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 48, 467-487. 2006 4. Faes, C., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Geys, H., Mintiens, K., Laevens, H. and Boelaert, F. (2006). “Estimating herd-specific force of infection by using random-effects models for clustered binary data and monotone fractional polynomials.” JRSS-C, 55(5), 595-613. 5. Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G. (2006) “Model Selection for Incomplete and Design-Based Samples.”. Statistics in Medicine, 25, 2502-2520. 6. Jansen, I., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Aerts, M., Verbeke, G., Kenward, M.G. (2006), “The Nature of Sensitivity in Monotone Missing Not At Random Models”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 50, 830-858. IF: 1.126 (2008) 2007 7. Hens, N., Faes, C., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Mintiens, K., Laevens, H. and Boelaert, F. (2007). “Handling missing data when modeling the force of infection: a population averaged approach.” JABES, 12, 498-513(16). 8. Theeten, H., Hens, N., Vandermeulen, C., Depoorter, A.M., Roelants, M., Aerts,M., Hoppenbrouwers, K. and Van Damme, P. (2007). “Infant vaccination coverage in 2005 and predictive factors for incomplete or invalid vaccination in Flanders, Belgium: an EPI survey.” Vaccine, 25, 4940-4948. IF: 3.298 (2008) 2008 9. Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Theeten, H., Van Damme, P., Beutels, Ph. (2008) “Modelling multi-sera data: The estimation of new joint and conditional epidemiological parameters.” Statistics in Medicine, 27, 2651-2664. 10. Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Kimani, P.K., Kojouharova, M., Van Damme, P., and Beutels, P. (2008). “Estimating the impact of vaccination using age-time-dependent incidence rates of hepatitis B.” Epidemiology and Infection, Volume 136, Issue 03, pp 341-351 16 11. Mossong, J., Hens, N., Friederichs, V., Davidkin, I., Broman, M., Litwinska, B., Siennicka, J., Trzcinska, A., van Damme, P., Beutels, P., Vyse, A., Shkedy, Z., Aerts, M., Massari, M., Gabutti, G. (2008) “Epidemiology of parvovirus B19 infection in Europe: results from a seroprevalence studies in Belgium, England and Wales, Finland, Italy and Poland. Epidemiology and Infection, 136(8). p. 1059-1068. 12. Mossong, J., Hens, N., Jit, M., Beutels, P., Auranen, K., Mikolajczyk, R. Massari, M., Scalia Tomba, G., Wallinga, J., Sadkowska-Todys, Rosinska, M., Edmunds, J.W. (2008) Social contacts and mixing patterns relevant to the spread of infectious diseases. PLoS Med 5(3) e74. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050074 2009 13. Bilcke J., Van Damme P., Van Ranst M., Hens N., Aerts M., Beutels P. (2009) “Estimating the Incidence of Symptomatic Rotavirus Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” PLoS ONE 4(6): e6060. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006060 14. Boulet, G.A.V., Benoy, I.H., Depuydt, C.E., Horvath, C.A.J., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Vereecken, A.J., Bogers, J.J.(2009) Human Papillomavirus 16 Load and E2/E6 Ratio in HPV16-Positive Women: Biomarkers for Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia >= 2 in a Liquid-Based Cytology Setting? Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; 18(11): 2992-2999. 15. Hens, N. Goeyvaerts, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, P. (2009) “Mining social mixing patterns for infectious disease models based on a two-day population survey in Belgium. BMC Infectious Diseases, 9, 5 16. Hens, N., Minalu Ayele, G., Goeyvaerts, N., Aerts, M., Mossong, J., Edmunds, W.J., Beutels, P. (2009) “Estimating the Impact of School Closure on Social Mixing Behaviour and the Transmission of Close Contact Infections in Eight European Countries” BMC Infectious Diseases. 9, 187 17. Hens, N., Wienke, A., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G. (2009)“The Correlated and Shared Gamma Frailty Model for Bivariate Current Status Data: An Illustration for Cross-sectional Serological Data.” Statistics in Medicine. 28, 2785-2800 18. Ogunjimi, B., Hens, N., Goeyvaerts, N., Aerts, M. and Beutels, P. (2009) Using empirical social contact data to model person to person infectious disease transmission: an illustration for varicella. Mathematical Biosciences, 278(2). p. 80-87. 19. Theeten, H., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Vandermeulen, C., Roelants, M., Hoppenbrouwers, K. and Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2009) Caregivers’ willingness to pay to reduce the number of vaccine injections in infants. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 28(1). p. 61-63. 20. Theeten, H., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Vandermeulen, C., Roelants, M., Hoppenbrouwers, K. and Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2009) Common attitudes about concomitant vaccine injections for infants and adolescents in Flanders, Belgium. Vaccine. 27(13). p. 1964-1969. IF: 3.616 2010 21. Aerts, M., Hens, N., Simonoff, J.S. “Model Selection Based on Presmoothing.” Journal of Applied Statistics. 37-9, 1455 22. Bilcke, J.; van Hoek, A.; Hens, N.; Aerts, M.; Edmunds, W. & Beutels, P. Cost-effectiveness of varicella and zoster vaccination in England & Wales: importance measures for correlated parameters Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2010, 2, 7611 - 7612 23. Creemers, A., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G. and Kenward, M.G. (2010) Sensitivity Analysis for Shared-parameter Models for Incomplete Longitudinal Outcomes. The Biometrical Journal. 52, 111-125. 24. Goeyvaerts, N., Hens, N., Ogunjimi, B., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2010) “Estimating transmission parameters and the basic reproduction number using social contact data and serological data on varicella zoster virus in Belgium.” JRSS-C, 59, 255-277. 17 25. Hens, N., Aerts, M., Faes, C., Shkedy, Z., Lejeune, O., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, P. (2010) “Seventy-five years of estimating the force of infection” Epidemiology and Infection, 138(6), pp. 802-812. 26. Hens, N., Kvitkovicova, A., Aerts, M., Hlubinka, D., Beutels, P. (2010) Modelling Distortions in Seroprevalence Data Using Change-point Fractional Polynomials. Statistical Modelling, 10, 159-175 27. Lenders, K., Ogunjimi, B., Beutels, Ph., Hens, N., Van Damme, P., Berneman, Z.N., Van Tendeloo, V.F.I. and Smits, E.L.J.M. (2010) “The effect of apoptotic cells on virus-specific immune responses detected using IFN-Gamma elispot” Journal of Immunological Methods. 31, 357(1-2) 51-4. 28. Leuridan, E., Hens, N., Hutse, V., Ieven, M., Aerts, M., Van Damme, P. (2010) “Early Waning of Maternal Measles Antibodies in the Era of Global Measles Vaccination” The British Medical Journal. 340:c1626 2011 29. Adriaenssens, N., Coenen, S., Versporten, A., Muller, A., Minalu Ayele, G., Faes, C., Vankerckhoven, V., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. on behalf of the ESAC Project Group ‘European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) (2011): Outpatient antibiotic use in Europe (1997-2009).’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol. 66, S6, VI3-VI12. IF: 5.068 30. Adriaenssens, N., Coenen, S., Versporten, A., Muller, A., Minalu Ayele, G., Faes, C., Vankerckhoven, V., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. on behalf of the ESAC Project Group ‘European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) (2011): Outpatient macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin (MLS) use in Europe (1997-2009).’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol. 66, S6, VI37-VI45. IF: 5.068 31. Adriaenssens, N., Coenen, S., Versporten, A., Muller, A., Minalu Ayele, G., Faes, C., Vankerckhoven, V., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. on behalf of the ESAC Project Group ‘European surveillance of antimicrobial consumption (ESAC) (2011): Outpatient quinolone use in Europe (1997-2009).’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol. 66, S6, VI47-VI56. IF: 5.068 32. Coenen, S., Adriaenssens, N., Versporten, A., Muller, A., Minalu Ayele, G., Faes, C., Vankerckhoven, V., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. on behalf of the ESAC Project Group. (2011) ‘European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): Outpatient use of tetracyclines, sulfonamides and trimethoprim, and other antibacterials in Europe’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol. 66, S6, VI57-VI70. IF: 5.068 33. Creemers, A., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Shkedy, Z., Desmet, F. and Beutels, P. (2011) Revealing agespecific past and future unrelated costs of pneumococcal infections by flexible generalized estimation equations. Journal of Applied Statistics, Volume 38 Issue 8, 1533. 34. Creemers, A., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G. and Kenward, M.G. (2011) “Shared-parameter Models and Missingness at Random” Statistical Modelling 11 279-310. 35. Delva, W., Beauclair, R., Welte, A., Vansteelandt, S., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Beyers, N., Temmerman, M. and du Toit, E.(2011) Age-disparity, sexual connectedness and HIV infection in disadvantaged communities around Cape Town, South Africa: A study protocol. BMC Public Health, 11:616 36. Faes, C., Molenberghs, G., Hens, N., Muller, A., Goossens, H., Coenen, S. (2011) ‘Analysing the composition of outpatient antibiotic use: a tutorial on compositional data analysis.’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol. 66, S6, VI89-VI94. IF: 5.068 37. Flasche, S., Hens, N., Boëlle, P.Y., Mossong, J., van Ballegooijen, W.M., Nunes, B., Rizzo, C., Popovici, F., Santa-Olalla, P., Hrubá, F., Parmakova, K., Baguelin, M., van Hoek, A.J., Desenclos, J.C., Bernillon, P., M., Larrauri Cámara, A., Wallinga, J., Asikainen, T., White, P.J., Edmunds, W.J. (2011) “Different transmission patterns in the early stages of the influenza A(H1N1)v pandemic: a comparative analysis of 12 European countries” Epidemics. 3, 125-133 18 38. Goeyvaerts, N., Hens, N., Aerts, M. and Beutels, P. (2011) “Model structure analysis to estimate basic immunological processes and maternal risk for parvovirus B19” Biostatistics 12, 283-302. 39. Hens, N., Van Ranst, M., Aerts, M., Robesyn, E., Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2011) Estimating the effective reproduction number for pandemic influenza from notification data made publicly available in real time: A multi-country analysis for influenza A/H1N1v 2009. Vaccine 29 (2011) 896-904. IF: 3.766 40. Horby, P., Thai, P.Q., Hens, N.; Yen, N.T.T., Mai, L.Q., Thoang, D.D. Nguyen Manh Linh; Nguyen Thu Huong; Neal Alexander; W Jonh Edmunds; Tran Nhu Duong; Annette Fox; Nguyen Tran Hien Social contact patterns in Vietnam and implications for the control of infectious diseases. PLoS One 6(2): e16965. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016965 41. House, T., Baguelin, M., van Hoek, A.J., Flasche, S., White, P., Sadique, Z., Eames, K., Read, J., Hens, N., Melegaro, A., Edmunds, W.J., Keeling, M.J. (2011) “School closures and English NHS capacity during the current influenza pandemic” Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. Vol.278(1719); 2753-2760 42. Lefevere, E., Hens, N., Theeten, H., Van den Bosch, K., Beutels, P., De Smet, F. and Van Damme, P. (2011) Like mother, like daughter? Mother’s history of cervical cancer screening and daughter’s Human Papillomavirus Vaccine uptake in Flanders (Belgium). Vaccine 29 (46), pp. 8390-8396. IF: 3.766 43. Lefevere, E., Hens, N., De Smet, F., Van Damme, P. (2011) Dynamics of HPV vaccination initiation in Flanders (Belgium) 2007-2009: a Cox regression model. BMC Public Health 11:470 44. Leuridan E, Hens N, Hutse V, Aerts M, Van Damme P. (2011) Kinetics of maternal antibodies against rubella and varicella in infants. Vaccine Mar 3;29(11):2222-6. IF: 3.766. 45. Leuridan E., Hens N., Peeters N., de Witte L., Van der Meeren O., Van Damme P (2011) Effect of a Prepregnancy Pertussis Booster Dose on Maternal Antibody Titers in Young Infants In: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Volume 30, Number 7, p. 608-610. 46. Luyten, J., Marais C., Hens, N., De Schrijver, K. and Beutels, P. (2011) “Imputing QALYs from single time point health state descriptions on the EQ-5D and the SF-6D: a comparison of methods for hepatitis A patients” Value in Health, 14, 282-290. 47. Minalu Ayele, G., Aerts, M., Coenen, S., Muller, A., Adriaenssens, N., Beutels, P., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. and Hens, N. (2011) ‘Application of mixed-effects models to study the countryspecific outpatient antibiotic use in Europe: a tutorial on longitudinal data analysis.’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. In Vol. 66, S6, VI79-VI87. IF: 5.068 48. Ogunjimi, B., Smits, E., Hens, N., Hens, A., Lenders, K., Ieven, M., Van Tendeloo, V., Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2011) ”Exploring the impact of exposure to primary varicella in children on varicella-zoster virus immunity of parents” Viral Immunology 24, 151-157. 49. Theeten H, Hutse V, Hens, N., Yavuz Y, Hoppenbrouwers K, Beutels P, Vranckx R and Van Damme P. (2011) “Are we hitting immunity targets? The 2006 age-specific seroprevalence of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and tetanus in Belgium.” Epidemiology and Infection, 139, 494-504. 50. Versporten, A., Coenen, S., Adriaenssens, N., Muller, A., Minalu Ayele, G., Faes, C., Vankerckhoven, V., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. on behalf of the ESAC Project Group ‘European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) (2011): outpatient cephalosporin use in Europe (1997-2009).’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol. 66, S6, VI25-VI35. IF: 5.068 51. Versporten, A., Coenen, S., Adriaenssens, N., Muller, A., Minalu Ayele, G., Faes, C., Vankerckhoven, V., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. on behalf of the ESAC Project Group ‘European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) (2011): outpatient penicillin use in Europe (1997-2009).’ Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol. 66, S6, VI13-VI23. IF: 5.068 19 2012 52. Andraud, M., Lejeune, O., Muzoro, J., Beutels, P. and Hens, N.. (2012) ‘Living on Three Time Scales: the Dynamics of Plasma Cell and Antibody Populations Illustrated for Hepatitis A Virus.’ PLoS Computational Biology. March; 8(3): e1002418. IF 4.867 53. Andraud, M., Hens, N., Marais, C., Beutels, P. (2012) Dynamic Epidemiological Models for Dengue Transmission: A Systematic Review of Structural Approaches. PLoS One. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049085. IF: 3.730 54. Bilcke, J., Marais, C., Ogunjimi, B., Willem, L., Hens, N. and Beutels, P. (2012) ‘Cost-effectiveness of vaccination against herpes zoster in adults aged over 60 years in Belgium.’ Vaccine; 30(3):675-684. IF: 3.492 55. Bilcke, J., Ogunjimi, B., Hulstaert F., Van Damme P., Hens, N., Beutels P. (2012) ‘Estimating the age-specific duration of herpes zoster vaccine protection: a matter of model choice?’ Vaccine; 30(17):2795-2800. IF: 3.492 56. Bollaerts, K., Aerts, M., Faes, C., Shkedy, Z., Van der Stede, Y., P., Beutels, P., Hens, N. (2012) “Estimation of population prevalence and force of infection directly from antibody titres.” Statistical Modelling. 12, 441-462. IF: 0.680 57. Castro-Sánchez A., Shkedy, Z., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Wiessing, L., Kretzchmar, M., Prins, M., Geskus, R. (2012) “The estimation of the force of infection for HCV among Injecting Drug Users using Interval Censored Data.” Epidemiology and Infection; 140(6);1064-1074. IF: 2.867 58. Creemers, A., Aerts, M., Hens, N. and Molenberghs, G. (2012)“A nonparametric approach to weighted estimating equations for regression analysis with missing covariates”. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Vol. 56(1), 100-113. IF: 1.304 59. Goeyvaerts, N., Hens, N., Theeten, H., Aerts, M., Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2012) Estimating vaccination coverage for the trivalent measles-mumps-rubella vaccine from trivariate serological data. Statistics in Medicine. 31(14), 1432-1449. IF: 2.044 60. Hens, N., Calatayud, L., Kurkela, S., Tamme, T. and Wallinga, J. (2012) “Robust reconstruction and analysis of outbreak data: influenza A(H1N1)v transmission in a school-based population” American Journal of Epidemiology 176(3): 196-203. IF: 4.780 61. Leuridan E., Goeyvaerts, N., Hens, N., Hutse, V., Van Damme, P. (2012) Maternal Mumps Antibodies in a Cohort of Children up to the age of 1 year. European Journal of Pediatrics. 171(8), 1167-1173. IF: 1.907 62. Ogunjimi, B., Peeters, D., Hens, N., Malfait, R., Van Tendeloo, V., et al. (2012) Sampling Site Matters When Counting Lymphocyte Subpopulations. PLoS ONE 7(7): e41405. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041405. IF: 3.730 63. Praet, J., Reekmans, K., Lin, D., De Vocht, N., Bergwerf, I., Tambuyzer, B., Daans, J., Hens, N., Goossens, H., Pauwels, P., Berneman, Z., Van der Linden, A., Ponsaerts, P. (2012) Cell typeassociated differences in migration, survival and immunogenicity following grafting in CNS tissue. Cell Transplantation, 21(9), 1867-1881. IF: 4.422 64. Van Heirstraeten, L., Coenen, S., Lammes, C., Hens, N., Goossens, H., Malhotra-Kumara, S. (2012) Antimicrobial drug use and macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes, Belgium. Emerg Infect Dis. 18(9) p1515-1518. IF: 5.993 65. Van Puyenbroeck, K., Hens, N., Beunckens, C., Coenen, S., Michiels, B., Molenberghs, G., Van Royen, P. and Verhoeven, V. (2012)“Daily probiotic protects healthy elderly nursing home residents against respiratory tract infections and improves effect of influenza vaccination. A randomised controlled clinical trial.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Vol. 95(5); 1165-1171. IF: 6.504 66. Willem L., Van Kerckhove K., Chao, D., Hens, N. and Beutels, P. (2012) A Nice Day for an Infection? Weather Conditions and Social Contact Patterns Relevant to Influenza Transmission. PLoS ONE 7(11): e48695. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048695. IF: 3.730 20 2013 67. Andraud, M., Hens, N., Beutels, P. (2013) A Simple Periodic-Forced Model for Dengue: Mathematical analysis and application to Singapore outbreaks. Mathematical Biosciences, 244 (1), 22-28 doi: 10.1016/j.mbs.2013.04.001. IF: 1.454 68. Beauclair, R., Meng. F., Deprez, N., Temmerman, M., Welte, A., Hens, N., Delva, W. (2013) Evaluating Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interviews in Urban South African Communities: Evidence for Good Suitability and Reduced Social Desirability Bias of a Cross-sectional Survey on Sexual Behaviour. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 13:11 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-11. IF: 2.211 (2012) 69. Bervoets, L., Van Hoorenbeeck, K., Kortleven, I., Van Noten, C., Hens, N., Vael, C., Goossens, H., Desager, K. and Vankerckhoven, V. (2013) Important alterations in gut microbial composition of obese children and the influence of lifestyle factors. Gut Pathogens 5:10, doi: 10.1168/1757-47495-10. IF: 2.738 (2012) 70. Blommaert, A., Coenen, S., Gielen, B., Goossens, H., Hens, N., Beutels, P. (2013) Patient and prescriber determinants for the choice between amoxicillin and broader spectrum antibiotics: a nationwide prescription level analysis. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. (2013) 68 (10): 2383-2392 doi:10.1093/jac/dkt170. IF: 5.338 (2012) 71. Bollaerts, K., Antoine, J., Van Casteren, V., Ducoffre, G., Hens, N. and Quoilin, S. (2013) Contribution of respiratory pathogens to consultations of influenza-like illness. Epidemiology and Infection, 141, 10, 2196-2204. IF: 2.867 (2012) 72. Castro-Sánchez, A.Y., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Vickerman, P., Faggiano, F., Salamina, G., Hens, N. (2013) A mathematical model for HIV and Hepatitis C co-infection and its assessment from a statistical perspective, Epidemics, 5, 56-66 doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2013.01.002. IF: 2.261 (2012) 73. De Vocht, N., Lin, D., Praet, J., Hoornaert, C., Reekmans, K., Le Blon, D., Daans, J., Pauwels, P., Goossens, H., Hens, N., Berneman, Z., Van der Linden, A. and Ponsaerts P. (2013) Quantitative and phenotypic analysis of mesenchymal stromal cell graft survival and recognition by microblia and astrocytes in mouse brain. Immunobiology, 218(5):696-705. doi: 10.1016/j.imbio.2012.08.266. IF: 2.814 (2012) 74. Delva, W., Meng, F., Beauclair, R., Deprez, N., Temmerman, M., Welte, A., Hens, N. (2013) Coital frequency and condom use in monogamous and concurrent sexual relationships in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society 16:18034. IF: 3.936 (2012) 75. Fraeyman J., Verbelen, M., Hens, N., Van Hal, G., De Loof, H. and Beutels, P. (2013) Evolutions in Both Co-Payment and Generic Market Share for Common Medication in the Belgian Reference Pricing System. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 11:543-552 Doi: 10.1007/s40258-0130054-9. 76. Kenyon, C., Colebunders, R., Buvé, A., Hens, N. (2013) Partner-concurrency associated with herpes simplex virus 2 infection in young South Africans. International Journal of STD & AIDS 24(10), 804-812. IF: 1.000 (2012) 77. Kenyon, C., Colenbunders, B. and Hens, N. (2013) Determinants of generalized herpes simplex virus 2 epidemics: the role of sexual partner concurrency International Journal of STD & AIDS. 24(5), 375-382. IF: 1.000 (2012) 78. Loquiha, O., Hens, N., Chavane, L., Temmermans, M., Aerts, M. (2013) Modelling Heterogeneity for Count Data: A Study of Maternal Mortality in Health Facilities in Mozambique. Biometrical Journal. 55(5), 647-660. IF: 1.152 (2012) 79. Luyten, J., Dorgali, V., Hens, N., Beutels, P. (2013) Public preferences over efficiency, equity and autonomy in vaccination policy: an empirical study. Social Science and Medicine. 77. 84-89 doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.11.009. IF: 2.733 (2012) 80. Minalu Ayele, G., Aerts, M., Coenen, S., Versporten, A., Muller, A., Adriaenssens, N., Beutels, P., Molenberghs, G. Goossens, H. and Hens, N. (2013) Adaptive change-point mixed models applied to data on outpatient tetracycline use in Europe. Statistical Modelling. 13, 3, p253-274. IF: 0.680 21 81. Ogunjimi, B., Hens, N., Malfait, R., Van Tendeloo, V., Smits, E. (2013) Creating a robust framework for the analysis of cryopreserved samples in quantitative immunological experiments Journal of Immunological Methods. 392, 1-2, p63-67. IF: 2.225 (2012) 82. Potter, G. and Hens, N. (2013) A penalized likelihood approach to estimate within-household contact networks from egocentric data. JRSS-C (Applied Statistics), 62, 4, p629-648, doi: 10.1111/rssc.12011. IF: 1.253 (2012) 83. Vandendijck, Y., Faes, C. and Hens, N. (2013) Eight Years of the Great Influenza Survey to Monitor Influenza-like Illness in Flanders. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64156. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064156. IF: 3.730 (2012) 84. Van Kerckhove, K., Hens, N.,, Edmunds, J. and Eames, K. (2013) The impact of illness on social networks: implications for transmission and control of influenza. American Journal of Epidemiology. 178. 11, 1655-1662. IF: 4.780 (2012) 2014 85. Abrams, S., Beutels, P., Hens, N. (2014) Assessing outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations using spatial seroprevalence data on mumps American Journal of Epidemiology. 179(8), 1006-1017. IF: 4.780 (2012) 86. Azmon, A., Faes, C., and Hens, N. On the estimation of the reproduction number based on misreported epidemic data Statistics in Medicine 33(7), 1176-1192. doi: 10.1002/sim.6015. IF: 2.044 (2012) 87. Biermans, G., Horemans, N., Hens, N., Vives i Batlle, J., Vandenhove, H., Cuypers, A. (2014) A dynamic dosimetry model for radioactive exposure scenarios in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 347, 54-62. IF: 2.351 (2012) 88. Blommaert, A., Bilcke, J., Vandendijck, Y., Hanquet, G., Hens, N., Beutels, P. (2014) Costeffectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccination in pregnant women, health care workers and persons with underlying illnesses in Belgium. Vaccine. 32(46), 6075-6083. IF: 3.492 (2012) 89. Blommaert, A., Hens, N. and Beutels, P. (2014) Data Mining for Longitudinal Data under Multicollinearity and Time Dependence using Penalized Generalized Estimating Equations Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,71, 667-680. IF: 1.304 (2012) 90. Blommaert, A., Marais, C, Hens, N., Coenen S., Muller, A., Goossens, H. and Beutels, P. (2014) Determinants of between-country differences in ambulatory antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in Europe: a longitudinal observational study. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 69: 535-547. IF: 5.338 (2012) 91. Braeckman, T., Theeten, H., Lernout, T., Hens, N., Roelants, M., Hoppenbrouwers, K. and Van Damme, P. Rotavirus vaccination coverage and adherence to recommended age among infants in Flanders (Belgium) in 2012. Eurosurveillance, 19(20):pii=20806. IF: 5.49 (2012) 92. Bruyndonckx, R., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Goossens, H., Molenberghs, G. and Coenen, S. Measuring trends of outpatient antibiotic use in Europe: jointly modelling longitudinal data in defined daily doses and packages. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 69: 1981-1986 IF: 5.338 (2012) 93. Coenen, S., Gielen, B., Blommaert, A., Beutels, P., Hens, N. and Goossens, H. (2014) Appropriate international measures for outpatient antibiotic prescribing and consumption: recommendations from a national data comparison of different measures. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 69: 529-534. IF: 5.338 (2012) 94. Le Blon, D., Hoornaert, C., Daans, J., Santermans, E., Hens, N., Goossens, H., Berneman, Z. and Ponsaerts, P. (2014) Distinct spatial distribution of microglia and macrophages following mesenchymal stem cell implantation in mouse brain. Immunology and Cell Biology 92, 8, 650-658 IF: 3.925 (2012) 22 95. Lernout, T., Theeten, H., Hens, N., Braeckman, T., Roelants, M., Hoppenbrouwers, K. and Van Damme, P. (2014) Timeliness of infant vaccination and factors related with delay in Flanders, Belgium. Vaccine. 32(2), 284-9. IF: 3.492 (2012) 96. Luyten. J., Desmet, P., Hens, N. and Beutels, P. (2013) Kicking against the pricks: vaccine skeptics have a different social orientation. The European Journal of Public Health 24(2): 310-314; doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckt080. IF: 2.516 (2012) 97. Hens, N., Ghebretinsae, A.H., Hardt; K., Van Damme, P., Van Herck, K. (2014) Model based estimates of long-term persistence of inactivated hepatitis A vaccine-induced antibodies in adults. Vaccine 32(13), 1507-1513. IF: 3.492 (2012) 98. Jombart, T., Aenensen, D.M., Baguelin, M., Birrell, P., Cauchemez, S., Camacho, A., Colijn, C., Collins, C. Cori, A., Didelot, X., Fraser, C., Frost, S., Hens, N., Hugues, J., Höhle, M., Opatowski, L., Rambaut, A., Ratmann, O., Soubeyrand, S. Suchard, M.A., Wallinga, J., Ypma, R., Ferguson, N. OutbreakTools: A new platform for disease outbreak analysis using the R software. Epidemics 7, 28-34. IF: 2.261 (2012) 99. Ogunjimi, B., Theeten, H., Hens, N. and Beutels P. (2014) Serology indicates Cytomegalovirus infection is associated to Varicella-Zoster Virus reactivation. J. Med. Virol. 86(5), 812-819 doi:10.1002/jmv.23749. IF: 2.373 (2012) 100. Vanlinthout, L.E.H., Mesfin, S.H., Hens, N., Vanacker, B.F., Robertson, E.N., Booij, L.H.D.J. (2014) Factors affecting intubation conditions created by mivacurium. A systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Anaesthesia 69(12), 1377-1387. doi:10.1111.anae.12785 IF: 3.846 (2012) 101. Willem, L., Stijven, S., Vladislavleva, E., Broeckhove, J., Beutels, P. and Hens, N. (2014) Active learning to understand infectious disease models and improve policy making. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(4): e1003563. IF: 4.867 (2012) 2015 102. Abrams, S., Hens, N. Modeling individual heterogeneity in the acquisition of recurrent infections: an application to parvovirus B19. Biostatistics 16, 1, 129-142 doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxu031. IF: 2.427 (2012) 103. Beauclair, R., Hens, N., Delva, W. (2015) Concurrent partnerships in Cape Town, South Africa: race and gender differences in prevalence and duration of overlap. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 18, 19372 http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.19372 104. Béraud, G., Kazmercziak, S., Beutels, P., Levy-Bruhl, D., Lenne, X., Mielcarek, N., Yazdanpanah, Y., Boëlle, P.Y., Hens, N., Dervaux, B. The French connection: The first large population-based contact survey in France relevant for the spread of infectious diseases. PLoS One. 10, 7,e0133203 105. Bruyndonckx, R., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Goossens, H., Abrahantes, J., Coenen, S. (2015) Exploring the association between resistance and outpatient antibiotic use expressed in defined daily doses or packages. JAC, 70:1241-1244 doi: 10.1093/jac/dku525 106. Costa, R., Bergwerf, I., Santermans, E., De Vocht, N., Praet, J., Daans, J., Le Bron, D., Hoornaert, C., Reekmans, K., Hens, N., Goossens, H., Berneman, Z., Parolini, O., Alviano, F., Ponsaerts, P. (2015) Distinct in vitro properties of embryonic and extra-embryonic fibroblast-like cells are reflected in their in vivo behaviour following grafting in the adult mouse brain. Cell Transplantation 24(2), 223-33. IF: 4.422 (2012) 107. Deckx, N., Wens, I, Nuyts, A.H., Lee, W.P., Hens, N. Koppen, G., Goossens, H., Van Damme, P., Berneman, Z., Eijnde, B.O. and Cools, N. (2015) Rapid exercise-induced mobilization of dendritic cells is potentially mediated by a Flt3L- and MMP-9-dependent process in MS. Mediators of Inflammation vol 2015, article ID 158956, 10 pages, doi:10.1155/2015/158956 108. Frederix, I., Hansen, D., Coninx, K., Vandervoort, P., Vandijck, D., Hens, N., Van Craenenbroeck, E., Van Driessche, N., Dendale, P. (2015) Long-term effectiveness of an internet-based, comprehensive and patient–specific telerehabilitation program with short message service support for cardiac patients: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17, 7, e185 23 109. Goeyvaerts, N., Leuridan, E., Faes, C., Van Damme, P., Hens, N. (2015) Multi-Disease Analysis of Maternal Antibody Decay in Infants Using Non-Linear Mixed Models Accounting for Censoring. Statistics in Medicine. 34(20), 2858-2871 110. Goeyvaerts, N., Willem, L., Van Kerckhove, K., Vandendijck, Y., Hanquet, G., Beutels, P., Hens, N. (2015) Estimating dynamic transmission model parameters for seasonal influenza by fitting to age and season-specific influenza-like illness incidence. Epidemics. 13, 1-9 doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2015.04.002 111. Grijalva, C., Goeyvaerts, N., Verastegui, H., Edwards, K.M., Gil, A.I., Lanata, C.F., Hens, N. (2015) A household-based study of contact networks relevant for the spread of infectious diseases in the highlands of Peru PLoS One, 10, 3, e0118457 112. Hens, N., Abrams, S., Santermans, E., Theeten, H., Goeyvaerts, N., Lernout, T., Leuridan, E., Van Kerckhove, K., Goossens, H., Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2015)Assessing the risk of measles resurgence in a highly vaccinated population: Belgium anno 2013. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(1):pii=20998. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20998 113. Kifle, Y.W., Goeyvaerts, N., Van Kerckhove, K., Willem, L., Faes, C., Leirs, H., Hens, N., Beutels, P. (2015) Animal ownership and touching enrich the context of social contacts relevant to the spread of human infectious diseases. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133461 114. Lambert, M.L., Bruyndonckx, R., Goossens, H., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Catry, B., Neely, F., Vogelaers, D., Hammai, N. (2015) The Belgian policy of funding antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals and trends of selected quality indicators for antimicrobial use, 1999-2010: a longitudinal study BMJ Open 5(2): e006916. 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006916 115. Lefevere, E., Theeten, H., Hens, N., De Smet, F., Top, G., Van Damme, P. (2015) From non schoolbased, co-payment to school-based, free Human Papillomavirus vaccination in Flanders (Belgium): A retrospective cohort study describing vaccination coverage, age-specific vaccination coverage and socio-economic inequalities. Vaccine 33(39), 5188-95 116. McDonald, S.A., Devleesschaumer, B., Speybroeck, N., Hens, N., Praet, N., Torgerson, P.R., Havelaar, A.H., Wu, F., Tremblay, M. Amene, E.W., Döpfer, D. (2015) Data-driven methods for ” imputing national-level incidence rates in global burden of disease studies. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 93:228-236. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.139972 117. Ogunjimi, B., Hens, N., Pebody, R., Janssens, H., Seale, H., Quinlivan, M., Theeten, H., Breuer, J. and Beutels, P. (2015) Cytomegalovirus seropositivity is associated with herpes zoster in the general population. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 11, 6, 1394-1399 118. Ogunjimi, B., Willem, L., Beutels, P. and Hens, N. (2015) Integrating between-host transmission and within-host immunity to analyze the impact of varicella vaccination on zoster. eLife;4:e07116. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07116 119. Praet, J., Orije, J., Kara, F., Guglielmetti, C., Santermans, E., Daans, J., Hens, N., Verhoye, M., Berneman, Z., Ponsaerts, P., Van der Linden, A. (2015) Cuprizone-induced demyelination and demyelination-associated inflammation result in different proton magnetic resonance metabolite spectra. NMR in Biomedicine: 28, 505-513 doi: 10.1002/nbm.3277 120. Praet, J., Santermans, E., Daans, J., Le Blon, D., Hoornaert, C., Goossens, H., Hens, N., Van der Linden, A., Berneman, Z., Ponsaerts, P. (2015) Early inflammatory responses following cell grafting in the CNS trigger activation of the sub-ventricular zone: a proposed model of sequential cellular events. Cell Transplantation, 24 (8) 121. Santermans, E., Goeyvaerts, N., Melegaro, A., Edmunds, J.W., Faes, C., Aerts, M., Beutels, P., Hens, N. (2015) The social contact hypothesis under the assumption of endemic equilibrium: elucidating the transmission potential of VZV in Europe. Epidemics, 11, 14-23. doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2014.12.005 122. Theeten, H., Van Herck, K., Van Der Meeren, O., Crasta, P., Van Damme, P., Hens, N. Long-term antibody persistence after vaccination with a 2-dose HavrixTM (inactivated hepatitis A vaccine): 20 years of observed data, and long-term model-based predictions. Vaccine. 2015;33(42):5723-7. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.07.008 24 123. Wens, I., Dalgas, U., Verboven, K., Kosten, L., Stevens, A., Hens, N., Eindje, B.O. (2015) Impact of High Intensity Exercise on Muscle Morphology in EAE Rats. Physiological Research Volume: 64 Issue: 6 Pages: 907-923 124. Willem, L., Stijven, S., Beutels, P., Hens, N. and Broeckhove, J. Optimizing Stochastic IndividualBased Models for Infectious Diseases. BMC Bioinformatics. 16:183 DOI 10.1186/s12859-015-0612-2 125. Wood, J.G., Goeyvaerts, N., MacIntyre, C.R., Menzies, R.I., McIntyre, P.B., Hens, N. (2015) Estimating vaccine coverage from serial trivariate serological data in the presence of waning immunity. Epidemiology. May;26(3):381-9. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000278 2016 126. Aelvoet, W., Terryn, N., Blommaert, A., Molenberghs, G., Hens, N., De Smet, F., Callens, M., Beutels, P. (2016) Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) hospitalisations and deaths: is there a role for quality improvement through inter-hospital comparisons? International Journal for Quality in Health Care 28(1), 22-32 127. Deckx, N., Wens, I., Nuyts, A.H., Hens, N., De Winter, B., Koppen, G., Goossens, H.J., Van Damme, P., Berneman, Z.N., O Eijnde, B., Cools, N. (2016) 12 weeks of combined endurance and resistance training reduces innate markers of inflammation in a randomized controlled clinical trial in patients with multiple sclerosis. Mediators of Inflammation. 13 pages, doi: 10.1155/2016/6789276 128. Lefevere, E., Hens, N., De Smet, F., Beutels, P. The impact of non-financial and financial encouragements on participation in non school-based human papillomavirus vaccination: a retrospective cohort study The European Journal of Health Economics, 17(3), 305-315 129. Maertens, K., Cabore, R.N., Huygen, K., Hens, N., Van Damme, P., Leuridan, E. (2016) Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy in Belgium: results of a prospective controlled cohort study. Vaccine. 34(1), 142-150 130. Ha, T.T.H., Leuridan, E., Maertens, K;, Nguyen, TD, Hens, N., Vu, N.H., Cabore, R.N., Duong, H.T., Huygen, K., Van Damme, P., Dang, A.D. (2016) Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy in Vietnam: Results of a randomized controlled trial Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy Vaccine. 34(1), 151-159 131. Santermans, E., Robesyn, E., Ganyani, T., Sudré, B., Faes, C., Quinten, C., Van Bortel, W., Haber, T., Kovac, T., Van Reeth, F., Testa, M., Hens, N., Plachouras, D. (2016) Spatiotemporal evolution of Ebola virus disease at sub-national level during the 2014 West Africa epidemic: model scrutiny and data meagreness. PLoS One. 11, 1, e0147172. 132. Vandendijck, Y., Faes, C. and Hens, N. (2016) Prevalence and Trend Estimation from Observational Data with Highly Variable Post-Stratification Weights. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 10, 94-117. E-version online 133. Frederix, I., Hansen, D., Coninx, K., Vandervoort, P., Vandijck, D., Hens, N., Van Craenenbroeck, E., Dendale, P. Effect of comprehensive cardiac telerehabilitation on 1-year cardiovascular rehospitalisation rate, medical costs and quality of life: a cost-effectiveness analysis. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2047487315602257, first published on August 19, 2015 134. Martins-Fonteyn, E.M.V., Loquiha, O., Wouters, E., Raimundo, I., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Degomme, O., Meulemans, H. HIV Susceptibility among Migrant Miners in Chokwe: a case study. International Journal for Health Services. May 19, 2015 0020731415585988 135. Ramires, T.G., Ortega, E.M.M., Cordeiro, G.M., Hens, N. A new biomodal flexible distribution for lifetime data. JSCS 01 Dec 2015 10.1080/00949655.2015.1115047 25 In Press 136. Bruyndonckx, R., Aerts, M. and Hens, N. Guidelines for multi-level analyses with sparseness at the level of the primary unit. Biometrical Journal In press. In Revision 137. Azmon, A. et al. PLoS Computational Biology In revision 138. Vosters et al. BMC Public Health In revision 26 Presentations Invited Oral Presentations - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Jansen, I., Thijs, H., Verbeke, G., Kenward, M.G. “Some Issues in Modelling Incomplete Longitudinal Data using Selection Models.” At: ‘Recent Developments in the Analysis of Repeated Measurements Studies in the Presence of Missing Data’, May 19, 2006 in Leuven. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Edmunds, J. and Gay, N. “Joint Modelling of Serological Data: Dependencies and Frailties” At: Polymod Meeting, May 18, 2006, Pisa, Italy. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Van Damme, P., Beutels, Ph. and Theeten H. “Flexible Modelling of Multivariate Serological Data” At: Polymod Meeting, October 24, 2006, Bielefeld, Germany. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Gay, N., Edmunds, J. A comparison of heterogeneity in the acquisition of varicella zoster virus and parvovirus B19 for five different European countries. The European Public Health Association; The future of public health in the Unified Europe, Helsinki, Finland, 11-13 October 2007. - Hens, N. Exploiteerbaarheid van gegevens voor risico-evaluatie. At the FAVV workshop on ’Wetenschappelijke exploitatie van databanken voor risico-evaluatie in het kader van de voedselveiligheid.’ Brussel, Belgium, 23 November, 2007. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Beutels, P. “10 years of collaboration on estimating infectious disease parameters for simulation models” At the first Methusalem meeting at Antwerp University, 4 September 2008. - Hens, N. “Elucidation of the factors producing any observed differences in the epidemiological patterns of airborne infections across Europe.” at GSK Rixensart 11 March 2009. - Hens, N. “ Reconstructing Transmission Trees from Partially Observed Epidemic Trees” at GSK Rixensart 11 March 2009. - Hens, N., Cortinas, A.J. Using tree-based methods and support vector machines to identify dengue hemorrhagic fever cases based on symptoms and blood test results, at the Data Mining in Leuven Workshop sponsored by Arenberg Doctoral School, September 18, 2009 - Hens, N. Current Topics in Vaccinology: from Basic “Who Infects Whom” Research to Modelling H1N1 Flu. Inaugural lecture of the chair in evidence-based vaccinology. University of Antwerp. September 23, 2009 - Hens, N., Beutels, P. “Modelling of H1N1 influenza infection based on confirmed cases” at the second Methusalem day at the University of Antwerp, 22 October 2009. - Hens, N., Theeten, H. “Vaccination coverage in infants, Flanders 2008” at the second Methusalem day at the University of Antwerp, 22 October 2009. - Hens, N., Leuridan, E. “Duration of protection through maternal antibodies” at the second Methusalem day at the University of Antwerp, 22 October 2009. - Hens, N. Quantifying the association in multisera data using marginal, conditional and frailty models. RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 31 March 2010 - Hens, N. Modelling serological data, Hepatitis B. RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 31 March 2010 - Hens, N. A study of the early stage of the A/H1N1v pandemic in Europe and the mitigation effect of school closure. Dag van de statistiek, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1 April 2010 - Hens, N. Analysis of correlated and longitudinal data (LS2009): ESAC Workshop Stockholm Sweden, 27-28 May 2010 27 - Hens, N. Inferring Household Contact Networks from Egocentric Data Using a Penalized Likelihood Approach. K.U.Leuven and UHasselt HPC User Day, June 10, 2011, Leuven. - Hens, N. The next generation of social contact surveys: POLYMOD and beyond. ECDC Infectious Disease Modelling Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 14 November, 2011. - Hens, N. Estimating infectious disease parameters in a time-heterogeneous setting: Hepatitis A in Flanders, Belgium. Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases. 21-23 May 2012, the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. - Hens, N. Estimating infectious disease parameters from serology and social contact data. ECCS Satellite Meeting ‘Data Driven Modeling of Contagion Processes’ 5 September 2012, Brussels - Hens, N. Modeling infectious diseases. IBS Uganda, 2-4 September 2013, Kampala, Uganda - Hens, N. Modelling HIV in South Africa: SIPACT, an event-driven individual simulator. IBS Uganda, 2-4 September 2013, Kampala, Uganda - Hens, N. Estimating MMR vaccine coverage from Australian sero-surveillance data. ROeS, 9-12 september 2013, Dornbirn, Austria - Hens, N. On modelling heterogeneity in the acquisition of infectious diseases. SMIDDY, 13 september 2013, Zürich, Switserland - Hens, N. Vaccination and behaviour as an experiment to test epidemiological theory. Ecology and Evolution of Parasites and Infections 17-19 September 2014, Antwerp, Belgium - Hens, N. and Abrams, S. Combining serological data and data on social contact patterns to quantify individual heterogeneity to single and recurrent infections. 12 November 2014, 2014, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK - Hens, N. Measuring vaccination coverage and outbreak potential from serological data. Seromod workshop, 12 November 2014, 2014, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK - Hens, N. & Faes, C. New years event VLIR 27 January 2015, VLIR, Brussels, Belgium - Hens, N. Mathematical modeling: the dynamics of infection. Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (23-)24 April, 2015, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium - Hens, N. Modeling infectious diseases. Ebola, HIV and parasites: threatening mankind? 25 April, 2015, Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium - Hens, N. The dynamics of plasma cell and antibody populations illustrated for hepatitis A virus. Be there or die? The role of the microenvironment in B cell behaviour in health and disease. ESF-EMBO Symposium, 17 May 2015, Sant Feliu De Guixols, Spain - Hens, N. Infectious disease epidemiology: slowly moving towards open science. Foster Seminar ‘Embracing Data Management - Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice’ June 4, 2015, Brussels - Hens, N. “Estimating vaccine coverage, quantifying outbreak risk and unravelling different sources of heterogeneity in acquisition of infection using multivariate serological data. Mathematical and Computational Epidemiology, Erice 2015, Italy, August 31 - September 4, 2015 - Hens, N. “Meta-population models and the spread of infectious diseases: quantifying the impact of spatio-temporal mixing behaviour of adults and children GEOMED 2015, Florence, Italy, September 10 - 12, 2015 - Hens, N.“Spatiotemporal evolution of Ebola virus disease at sub-national level during the 2014 West Africa epidemic: model scrutiny and data meagreness” The 17th Annual J&J Pharma Statistics Conference, Beerse, Belgium, November 9, 2015 - Hens, N.“Inferring time-dependent basic reproduction numbers from serial seroprevalence data on hepatitis A.” ISCB Birmingham, August 21-25, 2016 28 Seminars - Hens, N., Jansen, I., Thijs, H. “Modelling (Incomplete) Longitudinal Data.”, ‘QMSS Workshop’, Diepenbeek, Belgium, October 13, 2005. - Hens, N. and Aerts, M. “Applications of Nonparametric Techniques in Infectious Disease Modelling and Missing Data.” Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 2, 2005. - Hens, N. “Modelling Age-Time Dependent Incidence Rates of Hepatitis B and Estimating the Prevalence and Force Of Infection using Generalized Additive Models.” At: Health Protection Agency, London, May 11, 2006. - Hens, N. “Joint Modelling of Serological Data: Dependencies and Frailties” At: Health Protection Agency, London, May 16, 2006. - Hens, N., “Kernel Weighted Influence Measures”, ‘QMSS Workshop’, Diepenbeek, Belgium, October 21, 2006. - Hens, N., “Estimating the association and heterogeneity in the acquisition of varicella zoster virus and parvovirus B19 for five different European countries.” Martin-Luther Universität Halle Wittenberg, January 17, 2008. - Hens, N., “Measuring social mixing patterns and their impact on modelling the spread of airborne infections among humans.” Hasselt University, March 14, 2008. - Hens, N., “Measuring social mixing patterns and their impact on modelling the spread of airborne infections among humans.” IPK Havana, May 23, 2008. - Hens, N., “Measuring social mixing patterns and their predictiveness for observed epidemiological patterns.” University of Washington, July 30, 2008. - Hens, N., “Infectious Disease Parameters for Transmission Models: a Modern Statistical Perspective.” London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, February 23, 2009, London, UK. - Hens, N., “Intussusception and rotavirus vaccination in Belgium: a case-control study.” University of Antwerp, April 26, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium. - Hens, N., “The Statistical Analysis of Contact Patterns Relevant for the Spread of Infectious Diseases: from basic ‘Who Acquires Infection from Whom’ research to modelling A/H1N1v 2009” Erasmus Medical Center, April 18, 2010, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. - Hens, N. “The Statistical Analysis of Contact Patterns Relevant for the Spread of Infectious Diseases.” University of New South Wales, September 10, 2010, Sydney, Australia. - Hens, N. “The Statistical Analysis of Contact Patterns Relevant for the Spread of Infectious Diseases. Varicella Zoster Virus and Parvovirus B19” CBG Workshop, Melbourne University, September 16, 2010. Australia. - Hens, N. “Inferring plasma cell kinetics predicted by hepatitis A antibody decay after vaccination” Hasselt University, April 7, 2011 - Hens, N. “Estimating infectious disease parameters from serological and social contact data” Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, US, May 11, 2011 - Hens, N. “The Statistical Analysis of Serial Seroprevalence and Final Size Data to Estimate Infectious Disease Parameters for Hepatitis A in Belgium” University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, November 3, 2011. - Hens, N. “Estimating Within-household contact networks from egocentric data using a penalized likelihood approach.” Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, December 16, 2011. - Hens, N. “Estimating household contact networks from egocentric data: empirical evidence against random mixing.” University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, February 27, 2012 29 - Hens, N. “Topics in ‘Who Infects Whom’ Research and Epidemic Modelling Ziekenhuis OostLimburg, November 20, 2012 - Hens, N. “Estimating vaccination coverage and waning from serial seroprevalence data on MMR in Australia University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, 2013 - Hens, N. “Network structure and implications for epidemic modelling REGA Instituut KU Leuven, January 15, 2015 - Hens, N. “Quantifying heterogeneity in the acquisition of infectious diseases using frailty models”, ULg, LiègeApril 17, 2015 - Hens, N. “Quantifying heterogeneity in the acquisition of infectious diseases using frailty models”, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Dec 2, 2015 Contributed Oral Presentations - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Claeskens, G., Molenberghs, G. (2000), “Local Multiple Imputation”, ‘8th Annual meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society’, Herbeumont s/ Semois, Belgium, October 5-6, 2000. - Hens, N. “Resampling Methods for Non-and Semi-Parametric Regression.”, ‘Topics in Modern Statistics: Bootstrap and Statistical Genetics’, Diepenbeek, Belgium, May, 31, 2000. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Claeskens, G., Molenberghs, G. (2001), “Multiple Nonparametric Bootstrap Imputation”,‘16th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling’, Odense, Denmark, July 1-6, 2001 - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H., Verbeke, G. “Weighted Influence Measures” ’10th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society’, Kerkrade, Nederland, October 18-19, 2002 - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H., Verbeke, G. “Weighted Influence Measures” ’54th Session of International Statistical Institute’, Berlijn, Duitsland, October 13-20, 2003 - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G. “Model Selection in a Regression Setting with Missing Covariate Data.” At the Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 8-12, 2004. - Hens, N., Faes, C., Aerts, M., Mintients, K., Laevens, H., Boelaert, F. “Handling Missing Data when Modelling the Force of Infection” At the VEE-studiedag, Melle, Belgium, 2004. - Hens, N., Doctoral Thesis “Non- and Semi-parametric techniques for handling missing data” Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium, June, 10, 2005. - Hens, N., Faes, C., Aerts, M. “Constrained flexible weighted generalized estimating equations” At the 3rd IASC World Conference on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, CSDA, Limassol, Cyprus, October 27 - November 1, 2005. - Hens, N., Master Thesis “Modelling Age-time Dependent Incidence Rates for Hepatitis B in Bulgaria: 1983-2000” at Hasselt University, November 10, 2005. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, P. “Flexible Bivariate Modelling of Serological Data” At: ‘The XXIII International Biometric Conference’, July 16-21, 2006 in Montreal. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Eilers, P., Beutels, P. “A Symmetric Two-dimensional B-spline Approach to Model Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases.” At the 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute, 22-29 August, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. - Hens, N., Wienke, A., Aerts, M. and Molenberhgs, G. “On the correlated frailty model for bivariate current status data.” Workshop on composite likelihood methods. Warwick, UK, 15-17 April 2008. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Melagaro, A., Gay, N., Edmunds, J. Elucidation of the factors producing any observed differences in the epidemiological patterns of airborne infections across Europe. The 24th International Biometric Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 13-18, 2008 30 - Hens, N., Wienke, A., Aerts, M. and Molenberhgs, G. “A Simulation-based Assessment of the Correlated Frailty Model for Bivariate Current Status Data.” IAP Network Workshop on Missing Information in Survival Data Beyond Right Censoring, Ghent University, Belgium, 18-20 September 2008. - Hens, N., Wallinga, J. and Tamme, T. Identifying Missing Links in Pneumonic Plague Epidemics using a Prior-based EM-algorithm, at the 16th annual meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Wépion, Belgium, October 16-17, 2008. - Hens, N. Reconstructing transmission trees from partially observed epidemic trees: an illustration of H1N1. Mathematische Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach 1-7 November 2009 - Hens, N. Modelling incomplete epidemic trees. SIMID workshop University of Antwerp, Belgium, 12 April 2010 - Hens, N. Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data: A Modern Statistical Perspective. SIMID workshop University of Antwerp, Belgium, 12 April 2010 - Hens, N. On the Correlated Gamma Frailty Model for Current Status Data. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, 31 July - 5 August, 2010, Vancouver, Canada - Hens, N. On the Correlated Gamma Frailty Model for Current Status Data. Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Computational Statistics, 22-27 August, 2010, Paris France (ISBN: XXX) - Hens, N. Estimating the reproduction number from final size data for hepatitis A in Belgium. SIMID Workshop, 31 Jan - 1 Feb, 2011, Antwerp, Belgium - Hens, N. Estimating the reproduction number from final size data for hepatitis A in Flanders, Belgium: Truncation, Censoring and Heterogeneity. InFER, 28 April - 1 May, 2011, Warwick, UK. - Hens, N. Current and future topics in modelling contact data. 3rd SIMID Workshop, 25-27 April 2012, Hasselt - Hens, N. Estimating the distribution of household contact networks using penalized likelihood. IMS, 9-14 July 2012, Instanbul, Turkey - Hens, N. Modeling individual heterogeneity for recurrent infections. JSM, 2-8 August 2013, Montreal, Canada - Hens, N. Exponential-family random graph models for within-household contact networks. BENET 2015, Namur, Belgium Poster Presentations - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Claeskens, G., Molenberghs, G. “Non- and Semi-Parametric Bootstrap Imputation.” Statistical Modeling and Inference for Complex Data Structures. Louvain La Neuve, Belgium May, 21-23, 2002. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H., Verbeke, G. “Kernel Weighted Influence”, ’17th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling’, Theme: Statistical Modeling in Society, Chania, Crete, July, 8-12, 2002. - Hens, N., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H. “The Behavior of the Likelihood Ratio Test for Testing Missingness.” In: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Verbeke, G., Molenberghs, G., Aerts, A., and Fieuws, S. (Eds.). Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. July 7-11, 2003. - Hens, N., Faes, C., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Geys, H., Mintiens, K., Laevens, H., Boelaert, F. ”Modelling the Herd-specific Force Of Infection for BoHV-1: The Influence of Missing Data”. Annual Conference of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Nairn, Scotland, March 30th - April 1st, 2005. 31 - Faes, C., Hens, N., Aerts, M. , Shkedy, Z., Geys, H., Mintiens, K., Laevens, H., Boelaert, F. ”Modelling the Herd-specific Force Of Infection for BoHV-1: The Influence of Clustering”. Annual Conference of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Nairn, Scotland, March 30th - April 1st, 2005. - Hens, N., Faes, C., Bollaerts, K., Aerts, M., and Shkedy, Z. Estimating the force of infection from serological data: the impact of clustering, incomplete data and diagnostic uncertainty. VEEstudiedag Diepenbeek, Belgium, October 27th, 2005. - Hens, N., Goeyvaerts, N., Aerts, M., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, Ph. “Mining social mixing patterns and their influence on modelling infectious diseases: a Belgian Contact Survey.” 4th Congress of the European Society for Emerging Infections, Lisbon, Portugal, 30 Sept - 01 Oct 2007. - Leuridan E, Hens N, Ieven G, Aerts M, Van Damme, P. Maternal antibodies against measles after natural infection or vaccination in parturient women. 26th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases - ESPID, Graz, Austria, 14-16 May 2008. - Vankerckhoven, V. Lammens, C., Chapelle, S., Vanderstraeten, A., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Goossens, H. Analysis of the gut microbiotica in irritable bowel syndrome patients and healthy volunteers using selective media and real-time PCR. In Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Helsinki, Finland, 16 May 19 May 2009, P1249 - Loens K., Hens N., Ursi D., Goossens H., Aerts M., Ieven M. Application of an expanded gold standard and latent class analysis to decide on the strategy for the diagnosis of M.pneumoniae infections. 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Helsinki, Finland, 16 - 19 May 2009 - Theeten, H., Roelants, M., Hens N., Aerts, M., Depoorter, A.-M., Vandermeulen, C., Boonen, M., Hoppenbrouwers, K., Van Damme, P. Coverage of recommended vaccines in infants in Flanders, Belgium, anno 2008. Poster presentation at the 27th annual meeting of the European society for paediatric infectious diseases. Brussels, Belgium, June 9-13, 2009. - Theeten, H., Roelants, M., Hens N. Vandermeulen, C., Boonen, M., Hoppenbrouwers, K., Depoorter, A.M., Van Damme, P. Timeliness of infant vaccination in Flanders Belgium. Eurovaccine, Stockholm, 11 December 2009 - Leuridan, E., Hens N., Van Damme, P. Maternal antibodies against measles. Eurovaccine, Stockholm, 11 December 2009 - Hens, N., Goeyvaerts, N., Ogunjimi, B., Lejeune, O., Aerts, M. and Beutels, Ph. ”Estimating transmission parameters for infectious diseases using social contact data.” Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC, USA, August 1-6, 2009. - Goeyvaerts, N., Hens, N., Edmunds, W.J., Aerts, M. and Beutels, P. ”Statistical inference on parvovirus B19 immunology using data on social contacts and serological status.” Epidemics2 , Athens, Greece, December 2-4, 2009. - Van Heirstraeten, L., Vervoort, J., Lammens, C., Coenen, S., Hens, N., De Falleur, M., Goossens, H., Malhotra-Kumar, S. Molecular epidemiology of macrolide- and telithromycin-resistant group A Streptococcus and correlation with antibiotic use in Belgium. ECCMID, Vienna, 10-13 April 2010. - Van Heirstraten, L., Lammens, C., Coenen, S., Hens, N., Goossens, H., Malhotra-Kumar, S. Impact of Changes in Antibiotic Use on The Molecular Epidemiology of Macrolide-Resistant (MACR) Genotypes in Group A Streptococcus (GAS). 50th ICAAC meeting, Boston, US, 12-15 September 2010. - Hens, N., Goeyvaerts, N., Aerts, M., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, Ph. “Mining social mixing patterns and their influence on modelling infectious diseases: a Belgian Contact Survey.” BAPH Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 17 December 2010 - Van Heirstraten, L., Lammens, C., Coenen, S., Hens, N., Goossens, H., Malhotra-Kumar, S. “Impact of changes in antibiotic use on the molecular epidemiology of macrolide resistance in group A Streptococcus” at the 100th Anniversary NVvM & Scientific Spring Meeting 2011, April 18th, Arnhem, The Netherlands. 32 - Van Kerckhove, K., Hens, N., Edmunds, J.W., White, P.J. and Eames, K. Quantifying the effects of illness on contact patterns and the spread of infectious diseases at SCaMPIE 2011, April 18th, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. - Beutels, P., Marais, C., Hens, N., Blommaert, A., Coenen, S., Muller, A., Goossens, H.. Identifying determinants of antibiotic use in Europe. ECCMID, Milan, Italy, 7-10 May 2011. - Castro-Sanchez, Y.A., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Vickerman, P. and Hens, N. Assessment and Calibration of a Joint Mathematical Model for HCV and HIV using Statistical Methods. Belgian Statistical Society. Hasselt 12-14 October 2011. - Castro-Sanchez, Y.A., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Vickerman, P. and Hens, N. Statistics toolbox to calibrate a mathematical model. Epidemics3 Boston, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2011. - Goeyvaerts, N, Leuridan, E. and Hens, N. Multivariate Decay Models for Maternal Antibodies Against Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella in Infants. Epidemics3 Boston, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2011. - Andraud, M., Lejeune, O., Musoro, J., Ogunjmi, B., Beutels, P., Hens, N. Modeling the Dynamics of Plasma Cell and Antibody Populations: An Application to Hepatitis A. Epidemics3 Boston, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2011. - Delobelle, P., Onya, H., Langa, C., Hens, N. and Depoorter, A. The extended Health Belief Model and HIV/AIDS health seeking behavior in rural South Africa. At the 26th EHPS Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 21st -25th, 2012 - Castro-Sanchez, A.Y., Aerts, M., Hens, N., Shkedy, Z. Frailty models for interval-censored infectious disease data. Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases. 21-23 May 2012, the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. - Van Kerckhove K., Hens, N., Edmunds, W.J., Eames, K.T.D. Quantification of the change in contact behaviour and in the spread of diseases as a result of illness. Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases. 21-23 May 2012, the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. - Blommaert, A., De Smet, F., Callens, M., N. Hens, Beutels, P. A retrospective study to assess the costs of hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults in Belgium. ECCMID 27-30 April 2013 Berling, Germany. Conferences, Workshops and Symposia (attendance only) - ‘Workshop on Statistical Inference’, Diepenbeek, Belgium, April 10-12, 2000. - ‘European Mathematical Genetics Meeting’, Diepenbeek, Belgium, April, 13-15, 2000. - ‘The First Belgian-Dutch Biometric Conference 2001’, (Organized by the Belgian and Dutch Regions of the International Biometric Society and the National Statistical Society), Peer, Belgium, May, 28-29, 2001 - ’Workshop on Statistical Modeling for Complex Data’, Diepenbeek, Belgium, March 31 - April 2, 2003 - ’Celebration 15 years Master of Science in Biostatistics’, Diepenbeek, Belgium, May 23, 2003 - ’International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society’, Theme: Statistical genetics and bioinformatics, Diepenbeek, Belgium, July 14-17, 2003 - Annual Conference of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Nairn, Scotland, March 30th - April 1st, 2005. - Survey Methodology. VEE-studiedag Diepenbeek, Belgium, October 27th, 2005. - 3CC Meeting. Multivariate Data Analysis. Beerse, Belgium, November 21, 2005. 33 - Symposium Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases as advanced tools in Epidemiology and Public Health, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, January 27, 2006 - Polymod Meeting: Improving Public Health Policy in Europe through the Modelling and Economic Evaluation of Interventions for the Control of Infectious Diseases, Pisa, Italy, May 18, 2006. - The 14th Annual meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society, Houffalize, October (11), 12 & 13, 2006. - Polymod Meeting: Improving Public Health Policy in Europe through the Modelling and Economic Evaluation of Interventions for the Control of Infectious Diseases, Bielefeld, Germany, October 24-26, 2006. - Workshop on Statistical Inference for Dependent Data, Hasselt University, 26-27 April 2007. - Workshop on Shape Restrictions, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 October 2007. - ‘Advances in Infectious Diseases Modelling’ Les Pensières Conference Center - Veyrier du Lac France, 10-12 December, 2007. - The Joint Lustrum Conference of the Dutch and Flemish Societies for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Wageningen University, The Netherlands. December 12-13, 2007. - Workshop on Infectious Disease Epidemiology for Decision Making. Brussels 12 December 2008. - Second IBS Channel Network Conference Ghent, Belgium, April 6-8, 2009. - NSDN+ Workshop on Statistics and the Life Sciences: High-dimensional inference and complex data, Groningen, The Netherlands, 23-25 November 2009. - 8ste Valentijn Vaccinatiesymposium, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, 12 February 2010. - ECDC-meeting on H1N1 and school closure, Stockholm, Sweden, 19-20 October 2010. - SCaMPIE 2011, April 18th, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. - BVS-BSS 2011, October 12-14, Hasselt, Belgium Courses (attendance only) - SAS course. Franky de Cooman (3-day course, 01/2009), Hasselt University. - The first modelling infectious disease course: SISMID at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, June 16-29, 2009. - Short course on Statistical Models for Social Network Data by Tom Snijders, Lecture series, Leuven. January 16, 17, 18 and February 23, 24, 2010. EDUCATION Short Courses Belgium - Cart Workshop: Learning From Data, by Hens, N. and Bruckers, L. Diepenbeek, Master in Applied Statistics, November 19, 2002. - QMSS Workshop (2005): Longitudinal Data, by Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G., Alonso, A., Beunckens, C., Hens, N., Jansen, I., Litiere, S., Sotto, C., Thijs, H. - 1st SIMID Course. Antwerp, February 3 - 4, 2011 together with Z. Shkedy, M. Andraud and O. Lejeune. - 2nd SIMID Course. Bruges, February 21 - 22, 2011 together with M. Andraud. 34 - 3rd SIMID Course. Bruges, September 9 - 10, 2012 together with N. Goeyvaerts and M. Andraud. - Generalized Linear Models. Methusalem short course Antwerp 7 Maart 2012. - Missing Data in Clinical Studies. Methusalem short course Antwerp 14 November 2012. - Introduction to modelling R + Practical Ecology and Evolution of Parasites and Infections, Antwerp 17-19 September 2014. Abroad Data Mining Course. Master in Statistics, Havana, Cuba 12-29 May 2008. Missing Data in Clinical Studies. Utrecht, The Netherlands 16-18 December 2008. An Introduction to R, together with Marc Aerts, Maputo, Mozambique 30 November 2009. Modelling Infectious Diseases, together with Marc Aerts, Maputo, Mozambique 1-2 December 2009. Generalized Linear Models in R, together with Marc Aerts, Paramaribo, Suriname 25-31 Oktober 2010. Design and Analysis of Studies for Medical Research, Maputo, Mozambique 6-10 February 2012. Committees - Exam committee Biology (UH): 2011 - . . . - OMT geneeskunde (UH): 2012 - . . . - CWO master epidemiologie (UA): 2012 -. . . - OMT wiskunde (UH): 2013 - . . . Teaching Activities Teaching assistant for the following courses at Hasselt University (former LUC), (20-25 hours on average.) Academic Year 1999-2000 - Medische statistiek en basisgebruik Computer: 1ste kan Geneeskunde. (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Beleidsstatistiek: 2de kan TEW. (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Algemene Wiskunde (deel 2): 1ste kan TEW. (Prof. Dr. P. Wauters) - Biometrie: 1ste kan Biomedische Wetenschappen. (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e kan HI. (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Numerieke Analyse: 2e kan Wiskunde en Informatica. (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Medische Statistiek: 1e kan Biomedische Wetenschappen en 2e kan Geneeskunde. (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Kanstheorie en Statistiek: 2de kan Wiskunde en Informatica. (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) 35 Academic Year 2000-2001 - Medische statistiek en basisgebruik Computer: 1ste kan Geneeskunde. (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e kan TEW. (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Epidemiologie: 3e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. G. Molenberghs) - Numerieke Analyse: 2e kan Wiskunde (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Medische Statistiek en Computertoepassingen: 1e kan Biomedische Wetenschappen (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Medische Statistiek en Computertoepassingen: 2e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Kanstheorie en Statistiek: 2e kan Informatica/Kennistechnologie (Prof. Dr. N.Veraverbeke) Academic Year 2001-2002 - Medische Statistiek en Basisgebruik Computer: 1e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e kan TEW (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Beleidsstatistiek (deel 1): 2e kan HI (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Epidemiologie: 3e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. G. Molenberghs) - Numerieke Analyse: 2e kan Wiskunde (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Medische Statistiek en Computertoepassingen: 2e kan Biomedische Wetenschappen (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Medische Statistiek en Computertoepassingen: 2e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Kanstheorie en Statistiek: 2e kan Informatica/Kennistechnologie (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) Academic Year 2002-2003 - Medische Statistiek en Basisgebruik Computer: 1e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e kan TEW (Prof. Dr. M. Aerts) - Statistiek: 2e kan Informatica (Prof. Dr. M. Aerts) - Medische Statistiek en Computertoepassingen: 2e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Computerarithmetiek en Besliskunde: 1e kan Informatica (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) - Medische Statistiek en Basisgebruik Computer: 1e kan Biomedische Wetenschappen (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Medische Statistiek en Epidemiologie: 3e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. G. Molenberghs, Prof. Dr. J. Weyler) - Van individu tot populatie (Prof. Dr. G. Molenberghs) Academic Year 2003-2004 - Medische Statistiek en Basisgebruik Computer: 1e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Regression: Master in Applied Statistics (Drs. F. Tibaldi) - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e kan TEW (Prof. Dr. M. Aerts) - Statistiek: 2e kan Informatica (Prof. Dr. M. Aerts) - Medische Statistiek en Computertoepassingen: 2e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen, Prof. Dr. J. Weyler) 36 - Medische Statistiek en Basisgebruik Computer: 1e kan Biomedische Wetenschappen (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Medische Statistiek en Epidemiologie: 3e kan Geneeskunde (Prof. Dr. G. Molenberghs, Prof. Dr. J. Weyler) Academic Year 2004-2005 - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e kan TEW (Prof. Dr. M. Aerts) - Statistiek: 2e kan Informatica (Prof. Dr. M. Aerts) - Medische Statistiek en Basisgebruik Computer: 1e kan Biomedische Wetenschappen (Prof. Dr. N. Veraverbeke) - Medische Statistiek en Epidemiologie: 2e kan Biomedische Wetenschappen (Prof. Dr. G. Molenberghs, Prof. Dr. J. Weyler) - Kanstheorie en Statistiek: 2e kan Wiskunde (Prof. Dr. P. Janssen) Instructor of the following courses Academic Year 2005-2006 - Capita Selecta van de informatica: 2e jaar informatica (weekendonderwijs), UHasselt - Data Management: Master in Applied Statistics, UHasselt Academic Year 2006-2007 - Capita Selecta van de informatica: 2e jaar informatica (weekendonderwijs), UHasselt - Data Management: Master in Applied Statistics, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 2e bachelor biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt Academic Year 2007-2008 - Data Management in Statistics: Master in Statistics, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 2e bachelor biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt (co-instructor) - Data Mining: Master of Statistics, Havana, Cuba Academic Year 2008-2009 - Data Management in Statistics: Master in Statistics, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 2e bachelor biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt (co-instructor) - Data Mining: Master of Statistics, UHasselt 37 Academic Year 2009-2010 - Data Management in Statistics: Master in Statistics, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 2e bachelor biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 3e bachelor biologie, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt (co-instructor) - Data Mining: Master of Statistics, UHasselt Academic Year 2010-2011 - Statistisch Modelleren: 2e bachelor biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 3e bachelor biologie, UHasselt - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e bachelor Handelsingenieur, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt - Data Mining: Master of Statistics, UHasselt Academic Year 2011-2012 - Wetenschappelijke vorming 2: medische statistiek en epidemiologie: 2e bachelor geneeskunde, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 2e bachelor biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 3e bachelor biologie, UHasselt - Beleidsstatistiek: 2e bachelor Handelsingenieur, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt - Data Mining: Master of Statistics, UHasselt Academic Year 2012-2013 - Wetenschappelijke vorming 2: medische statistiek en epidemiologie: 2e bachelor geneeskunde, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 2e bachelor biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 3e bachelor biologie, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt - Data Mining: Master of Statistics, UHasselt - Mathematical and stochastic models for epidemiology and population biology, Master of Statistics, UHasselt - Inleiding tot de statistiek, Master in epidemiologie, University of Antwerp - Epidemiologie van infectieziekten, Master in epidemiologie, University of Antwerp 38 Academic Year 2013-2014 - Wetenschappelijke vorming 2: medische statistiek en epidemiologie: 2e bachelor geneeskunde, UHasselt - Statistisch Modelleren: 3e bachelor biologie, UHasselt - Topics in Statistics: 3e bachelor Wiskunde, UHasselt - Data Mining: Master of Statistics, UHasselt - Mathematical and stochastic models for epidemiology and population biology, Master of Statistics, UHasselt - Wiskundige modellen in de levenswetenschappen: 1e bach Wiskunde, UHasselt - Inleiding tot de statistiek, Master in epidemiologie, University of Antwerp - Epidemiologie van infectieziekten, Master in epidemiologie, University of Antwerp Development of the Following Courses The following courses have been renewed our build from scratch. Academic Year 2002-2003 - Braekers R., Hens N. Opgavenbundel Beleidsstatistiek. (2002) 2e kan TEW - Aerts M., Braekers R., Hens N. Kanstheorie en Statistiek. (2002) 2e kan Informatica - Bruckers L., Hens N. Classification and Regression Trees. Course Notes (2002) Master Program in Applied Statistics. Academic Year 2005-2006 - Hens, N., Thijs, H., Jansen, I., Beunckens, L. and Faes, F. Capita Selecta van de informatica (2005) - 2e jaar informatica (weekendonderwijs) - Hens, N. Data Management (2006) - Master Program in Applied Statistics Academic Year 2007-2008 - Hens, N. Data Management in Statistics (2007): Master in Statistics, UHasselt Academic Year 2009-2010 - Hens, N. Statistisch modelleren: 2e bach Biomedische wetenschappen, UHasselt - Hens, N. Statistisch modelleren: 3e bach Biologie, UHasselt Academic Year 2011-2012 - Hens, N. Wetenschappelijke vorming: 2e bach Geneeskunde, UHasselt 39 Academic Year 2012-2013 - Hens, N. Wetenschappelijke vorming 2: 2e bach Geneeskunde, UHasselt - Hens, N. Mathematical and stochastic models for epidemiology and population biology, Master of Statistics, UHasselt - Hens, N. en Aerts, M. Inleiding tot de statistiek, Master in epidemiologie, University of Antwerp - Hens, N. en De Schrijver, K. Epidemiologie van infectieziekten, Master in epidemiologie, University of Antwerp Academic Year 2013-2014 - Faes, C. and Hens, N. Wiskundige modellen in de levenswetenschappen: 1e bach Wiskunde, UHasselt Master Theses Supervision Bachelor in Mathematics Kim Van Kerkhove en Ynte Van Der Hoydonc (2007-2008): Het modelleren van heterogeniteit en seroprevalentie voor Hepatitis A, B en C in België anno 1993. Steven Abrams, Stijn Jaspers, Yannick Vandendijck (2008-2009): Het schatten van het effectieve reproductienummer voor hepatitis A epidemieën in Vlaanderen Master in Applied Statistics Brenda Nalwadda (2003-2004): Factors that determine cervix cancer screening in the female Belgian population. Edward Acheampong (2006-2007): Mathematical Simulation Models for Joint Modelling of Similarly Transmitted Infectious Diseases. Master in Biostatistics Habtamu Kassa (2003-2004): Modelling the force of infection of bovine herpes virus-1 in Belgian cattle. Reuben Ogollah (2004-2005): A sensitivity analysis on handling missing data for cervix cancer screening in the Belgian Health Interview Survey. Luwis Diya (2004-2005): Statistical methods for decomposing health inequality in infant mortality. Mugo Caroline (2005-2006): Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves Marek Molas (2005-2006): Indirect MNAR in selection models. Teele Tamme (2005-2006): Finding the missing links in pneumonic plague epidemics: who infected whom? Nuria Pérez-Álvarez (2005-2006): A comparison of methods for the imputation of human resources information in the modelling of under-five mortality rate outcome. Andrea Kvitkovicova (2006-2007): To monotonize or not to monotonize: modelling seroprevalence data. Awarded with the Quetelet Prize Xue Fenchao (2006-2007): Modeling Antibody Level Data for Multiple Infection Using Mixed Model Splines. Philippe Gichuru (2006-2007): Nonparametric estimation of ROC curves based on Bayesian models when the true disease state is unknown. 40 Sarka Dosla (2006-2007): Applying Case Series Analyses to Traffic Accident Data Susan Rumisha (2006-2007): Dealing with Missing Data in Cross Sectional Data on Transport Leen Slaets (2006-2007): Dealing with Missing Data in the Structural Time Series Modelling of Traffic Accident Data. Xue Fenchao (2006-2007): Modeling Antibody Level Data For Multiple Infection Using Mixed Model Splines Yalcin Yavuz (2007-2008): Sero-epidemiology of measles, mumps and rubella in Belgium anno 2002 and 2006. Master in Statistics Girma Minalu (2007-2008): Statistical Analyses of Contact Surveys across Eight Different European Countries Marek Omelka (2007-2008): Spline models with change-points, applied to seroprevalence data Edward Acheampong (2007-2008): Modelling influenza incidence using time series methodology Vishva Manohara Danthurebandara (2007-2008): Modelling contact patterns using a Bayesian Changepoint Approach Yovanna Castro Sanchez (2007-2008): An overview of HIV-modelling through the years Tom Cattaert (2007-2008): Correlated frailty models for current status data Matus Maciak (2007-2008): Spline models with change-points applied to seroprevalence data Aklilu Habteab Ghebretinsae (2008-2009): Modelling antibody levels using nonlinear mixed models Elasma Immaculate Milanzi (2008-2009): Distinguishing Between Routes of Transmission Using Frailty Models Jianxing Chen (2008-2009):The impact of misspecification on the correlated frailty model under various censoring schemes Jozef Juríc̀ek (2008-2009): Testing for monotonicity of the age-dependent prevalence, based on current status data Alimi, Nurudeen Adeniyi (2008-2009): Estimating Transmission Parameters for Airborne Infections Using Time Use Surveys Adetunji Ibraheem Olalekan (2008-2009): Modeling the Spatial Association of Outcomes Measured at Different Resolution (Incidence of Bluetongue as Function of the Weather in Belgium, 2006) Samuel Iddi (2008-2009): Mathematical Simulation Models for Joint Modelling of Similarly Transmitted Infectious Diseases Chellafe Ensoy (2009-2010): Parametric Fitting in Modelling Demography for Epidemiology Forecasting Zebedee Musoro (2009-2010): Testing antibody dynamics by parametric fitting of data John Kissa (2009-2010): Analyzing trivariate current status data with applications in infectious disease epidemiology Kim Van Kerckhove (2009-2010): The influence of influenza A(H1N1) infection on social contact behavior in the UK Alemnkia Morfaw (2009-2010): Inferring transmission parameters from multisera data Suo Mingbo (2009-2010): Individual-based models for H1N1 41 Nkengim Immaculate: (2009-2010) Factors affecting intubation conditions of succinylcholine and rocuronium. A meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis. Nele Goeyvaerts (2010-2011): Multivariate decay models for longitudinal censored maternal antibody levels against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella Moira Verbelen (2010-2011): Decompositional analysis of sales volume and costs of pharmaceutical products in the three most important medicine groups in Belgium (1997-2009) Susan Nakiweewa (2010-2011): Factors affecting the intubation conditions by succinylcholine. A meta-regression analysis Madona Wijaya (2010-2011): Bi-level selection in Longitudinal Analysis with Time Dependent Covariates Francis Batomen (2010-2011): Identifying determinants of life expectancy in the EU Dejene Bikila (2010-2011): Mathematical models for H1N1 Maria Veronica Dorgali (2010-2011): ”A statistical analysis of the general public”s ethical preferences regarding various vaccination policy options Steven Abrams (2010-2011): ”The trivariate correlated gamma frailty model for current status data Jose C Juga Adelino (2011-2012): ”Statistical Methodology for HIV Serodiscordance among Couples: The case of Mozambique” Robin Bruyndonckx (2011-2012): ”Longitudinal data analysis of data on outpatient antibiotic use in Europe” Samson Hadush Mesfin (2011-2012): ”Factors Affecting the Intubation Conditions Created by Mivacurium. A Meta-analysis and Meta-regression analysis.” Mulugeta Tohye Abera (2011-2012): ”Flexible modeling of the cost evolution of pneumococcal infections” Lucas Malla (2011-2012): ”Assessing the health related quality of life in the general population” Melkie Chernet Leykun (2011-2012): ”Modelling the Persistence of Trimethoprim and Sulfonamide Resistance in Escherichia coli Bacteria” Tadele Worku Mengesha (2011-2012): ”adaptive change-point mixed models to data on outpatient antibiotic use in Europe” Katrien Jeuris (2011-2012): ”Detection and prognostic significance of circulating tumour cells in patients with metastatic breast cancer” Cabrale Nango (2011-2012): ”The neonatal and paediatric antimicrobial web-based Point Prevalence Survey (PPS): variation in prescribed doses of antibiotics in hospitalized children worldwide” De Carvalho Yokota Renata Tiene (2012-2013): ”Estimation of vaccination coverage and waning immunity for measles, mumps, and rubella from serological surveys in Belgium, 2002 and 2006” Kifle Yimer Wasihun (2012-2013): ”Human-animal interactions: Survey of contact behavior relevant for the spread of infectious diseases” Mekuria Mhiret Ayele (2012-2013): ”Exploring the relationship between different instruments for measuring and valuing health” Bakuli Abhishek (2012-2013): ”Testing non-autonomous models of antibody dynamics by parametric fitting of data on HAV vaccination: Exploratory study” Mtumwa Abdalla (2012-2013): ”Persistence of resistance selection by common antibiotic substances in streptococci: a case-control study as surrogate for a randomized placebo controlled trial” Musingila Paul (2012-2013): ”Prevalence of high risk HPV in female sex workers in Antwerp, Belgium” 42 Kourkouni Eleni (2012-2013): ”Assessing outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations using spatial seroprevalence data on rubella” Rungo Antonio (2012-2013): ”Assessing the health related quality of life in Flanders and the possible factors influencing it” Kourkouni Eleni (2013-2014): ”Assessing outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations using spatial seroprevalence data on rubella” Rungo Antonio (2013-2014): ”Assessing the health related quality of life in Flanders and the possible factors influencing it” Martins Adelino (2013-2014): ”A new model for multivariate current status data” Waithaka Michael (2013-2014): ”Likelihood-based estimation of dynamic transmission model parameters for seasonal influenza by fitting to age and season specific ILI data” Atanga Marcelius (2013-2014): ”Demographics for Epidemiology Forecasting” Nguyen Van Kinh (2013-2014): ”A new prediction tool for upcoming influenza epidemics using data of general practice out-of-hour services” Le Thi Phuong Thao (2013-2014): ”Statistical analysis of multiplex serological data: new tools to evaluate malaria transmission in pre-elimination settings.” Houben Kendra (2013-2014): epidemiology.” ”Using stochastic simulation models to reconstruct B19 sero- Kabwaago Abdallah (2014-2015): ”A probabilistic model to analyse magnitude and time course of neuromuscular block induced by short- and fast-acting agents” Karim Md. Rezaul (2014-2015): ”Longitudinal modeling of T-cell dynamics during in vitro stimulation experiments” Ngantcha Nganou Blaise (2014-2015): ”Micro-epidemics of campylobacteriosis in Luxembourg: Statistical cluster detection using extended multi-locus sequence typing” Tendongfor Nicholas (2014-2015): ”Modelling health and socio-demographic indicators of social contacts in the Flranders, Belgium” Tran Mai Phuong Thao (2014-2015): ”Longitudinal modeling of antibody dynamics during herpes zoster infection” Gyaase Stephaney (2015-2016): ”Impact of SES on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy taking into account Recurrent Event.” 43