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Mirjam Kretzschmar

Full Professor

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Research groups

Infectious disease modelling Utrecht

Research aim

Our mission is to use state-of-the-art mathematical and statistical modelling techniques to gain insight into the dynamics of infectious diseases in populations and to improve public health interventions for disease control.

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Recent publications

Impact of increased diagnosis of early HIV infection and immediate antiretroviral treatment initiation on HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in the Netherlands Alexandra Teslya, Janneke Cornelia Maria Heijne, Maarten Franciscus Schim van der Loeff, Ard van Sighem, Jacob Aiden Roberts, Maartje Dijkstra, Godelieve J. de Bree, Axel Jeremias Schmidt, Kai J. Jonas, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar, Ganna Rozhnova
PLoS Computational Biology, 2025, vol. 21
Determinants of Citizens' Intention to Participate in Self-Led Contact Tracing Yannick Bernd Helms, Akke van der Meer, Rik Crutzen, José António Ferreira, Mirjam E E Kretzschmar, Aura Timen, Nora Hamdiui, Mart L Stein
JMIR public health and surveillance, 2024, vol. 10
Estimation of introduction and transmission rates of SARS-CoV-2 in a prospective household study Michiel van Boven, Christiaan H van Dorp, Ilse Westerhof, Vincent Jaddoe, Valerie Heuvelman, Liesbeth Duijts, Elandri Fourie, Judith Sluiter-Post, Marlies A van Houten, Paul Badoux, Sjoerd Euser, Bjorn Herpers, Dirk Eggink, Marieke de Hoog, Trisja Boom, Joanne Wildenbeest, Louis Bont, Ganna Rozhnova, Marc J Bonten, Mirjam E Kretzschmar, Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen
PLoS Computational Biology, 2024, vol. 20
A unified framework for diagnostic test development and evaluation during outbreaks of emerging infections Madhav Chaturvedi, Denise Köster, Patrick M Bossuyt, Oke Gerke, Annette Jurke, Mirjam E Kretzschmar, Marc Lütgehetmann, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Johannes B Reitsma, Nicole Schneiderhan-Marra, Uwe Siebert, Carina Stekly, Christoph Ehret, Nicole Rübsamen, André Karch, Antonia Zapf
Communications medicine, 2024, vol. 4
Coupled infectious disease and behavior dynamics. A review of model assumptions Andreas Reitenbach, Fabio Sartori, Sven Banisch, Anastasia Golovin, André Calero Valdez, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Viola Priesemann, Michael Maes
Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain), 2024, vol. 88
Estimating the relative importance of epidemiological and behavioural parameters for epidemic mpox transmission Madhav Chaturvedi, Isti Rodiah, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Stefan Scholz, Berit Lange, André Karch, Veronika K. Jaeger
BMC Medicine, 2024, vol. 22