Twenty-one ITM PhD students successfully defended their thesis at one of our partner universities.
Stijn Rogé (Universiteit Antwerpen) on new serodiagnostic tests for African trypanosomiasis.
Bouchra Assarag (Université Libre de Bruxelles) on maternal morbidity in Morocco.
John Ditekemena Dinanga (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and the provision of related HIV care in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Cheryll Eniyou Oriero (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the field implementation and evaluation of novel isothermal, nucleic acid based diagnostic tools for malaria elimination in sub Saharan Africa.
Natalie Lorent (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the early diagnosis and care of tuberculosis through community-based active case-finding in poor urban settlements of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Angel Rosas-Aguirre (Université Catholique de Louvain) on transmission dynamics for malaria control and elimination in Peru.
Alain Mpanya Kabeya (Université Libre de Bruxelles) on socio-cultural factors and control of Human African Trypanosomiasis.
Francesca Barletta (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the molecular epidemiological approach to understand and control the emergence and spread of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Lima, Peru.
Djibril Wade (Universiteit Antwerpen) on CD4 T-cell counting technologies in Senegal.
Olivier Koole (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the challenges for optimal care for people living with HIV in countries with limited resources.
Ermias Diro Ejara (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the clinical management of Visceral Leishmaniasis in HIV patients in Ethiopia.
Paritosh Malaviya (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the management of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India.
Cornelius Mweempwa (University of Pretoria, South Africa) on the status of tsetse (Glossina morsitans morsitans) populations and epidemiology of livestock trypanosomosis in areas of varying degrees of habitat fragmentation in eastern Zambia.
Srinivas Nuggehali Prashanth (Université Catholique de Louvain) on a realist evaluation of a local health system strengthening intervention in Tumkur, India.
Fikru Regassa Gari (KU Leuven) on an epidemiological study and molecular characterisation of non-tsetse transmitted trypanosomes in Ethiopia.
Delphin Mavinga Phanzu (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the contribution to the improvement of the control of Buruli ulcer in the territory of Songololo (DRC).
Joris Menten (KU Leuven) on latent variable models in diagnostic medicine with applications in visceral leishmaniasis research.
Anisur Rahman (Université de Liège) on the epidemiology of brucellosis in humans and domestic ruminants in Bangladesh.
Dennis Pérez Chacón (Universiteit Gent) on an empowerment strategy for dengue prevention and control.
Juliet Nabyonga Orem (Université Catholique de Louvain) on diffusion of evidence into public health policies and practice.
Odin Goovaerts (Universiteit Antwerpen) on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.