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van der Sande

Associate Professor

Biography

Marianne van der Sande is professor of Public Health Epidemiology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp where she heads the Departement of Public Health. She is a medical epidemiologist, registered as Consultant Public Health (M&G), and since 2009 also works as part time associate professor at the Julius Centre. Before moving to Antwerp, she was the head of the department of Epidemiology and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases of the Dutch National Centre Infectious Disease Control at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Previously, she worked as clinician in the Netherlands, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia and then obtained her MPH from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore USA. Next, she worked for nearly 10 years at the MRC Laboratories in The Gambia, first on the epidemiology of non-communicable diseases in sub-Sahara Africa (also the topic of her PhD), and later on the epidemiology of infectious diseases. She has been PI on a range of infectious disease research grants (eg on hepatitis B, hiv, mumps, influenza, hpv) and is currently active in several national and international infectious diseases organisations.

Recent publications

Antibiotic use by clinical presentation across all healthcare providers in rural Burkina Faso Daniel Valia, Brecht Ingelbeen, Guétawendé Job Wilfried Nassa, Bérenger Kaboré, François Kiemdé, Toussaint Rouamba, Adélaïde Compaoré, Juste Stéphane Kouanda, Annie Robert, Hector Rodriguez-Villalobos, Marianne A B Van Der Sande, Halidou Tinto
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2024, vol. 79, p.2534-2542
Reproductive tract complication risks following Chlamydia trachomatis infections Zoïe W. Alexiou, Bernice M. Hoenderboom, Christian J.P.A. Hoebe, Nicole H.T.M. Dukers-Muijrers, Hannelore M. Götz, Marianne A.B. van der Sande, Henry J.C. de Vries, Janneke E. den Hartog, Servaas A. Morré, Birgit H.B. van Benthem
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 2024, vol. 45
Information and Communication Technology to Enhance the Implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Andrea Bernasconi, Marco Landi, Clarence S. Yah, Marianne A.B. van der Sande
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, 2024, vol. 2, p.438-452
Malaria risk mapping among children under five in Togo Gountante Kombate, Issouf Kone, Bili Douti, Kamba André-Marie Soubeiga, Diederick E Grobbee, Marianne A B van der Sande
Scientific Reports, 2024, vol. 14
Evaluating the effect of a behavioural intervention bundle on antibiotic use, quality of care, and household transmission of resistant Enterobacteriaceae in intervention versus control clusters in rural Burkina Faso and DR Congo (CABU-EICO) Marianne van der Sande, Brecht Ingelbeen, Marie Meudec, Esther van Kleef, Linda Campbell, Edwin Wouters, Joachim Marien, Rianne van Vredendaal, Herwig Leirs, Daniel Valia, Sibidou Yougbare, Stephane Kouanda Juste, Aminata Welgo, Halidou Tinto, Delphin Mpanzu, Bijou Mbangi, Cesar Augustin Khoso Muaka, Oscar Kiabanza, Adna Melanda, Richelin Makuaya, Didier Ndomba, Papa Mamadou Diagne, Leonard Heyerdahl, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Sandra Van Puyvelde, Ben Cooper,
Trials, 2024, vol. 25
The importance of understanding pelvic inflammatory disease as a polymicrobial infection -authors’ reply Zoïe W. Alexiou, Bernice M. Hoenderboom, Christian J.P.A. Hoebe, Nicole H.T.M. Dukers-Muijrers, Hannelore M. Götz, Marianne A.B. van der Sande, Henry J.C. de Vries, Janneke E. den Hartog, Servaas A. Morré, Birgit H.B. van Benthem
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 2024, vol. 47

External positions

Voorzitter ERC Consolidator Grant LS-7 - Beoordelen van ingediende onderzoeksvoorstellen - European Research Commission