Department of Infectious Diseases Research and Prevention

• Senior researcher, working on the themes: sexual health and STIs among men who have sex with men (through the Amsterdam Cohort Studies; ACS), pandemic preparedness, science communication & infodemic management

• Co-leading a team of 25 researchers, data managers and study nurses

• PhD and MSc student supervision

Project Group for Risk Communication

Main projects:

• Establishing infodemic management, with a focus on social listening and integrated insights analysis

• Supporting the monkeypox outbreak response in Germany

• Digital/online science communication, contributor to RKI’s Social Media Task Force: on Twitter (@rki_de), Instagram (@rki_fuer_euch) and LinkedIn

• PhD co-supervisor of the project ‘Social listening – Using social media to address public health issues’, in collaboration with RKI’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research

• WHO working group member to provide expertise to the WHO project on evidence gap mapping on infodemic management interventions

• Involved in field epidemiology training: ECDC EPIET fellow supervision and training

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Surveillance Unit.

Main projects:

• Supporting the COVID-19 outbreak response

• Establishing a syndromic surveillance system using routine emergency department data

• Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated non-pharmaceutical interventions on other notifiable infectious diseases

• Involved in field epidemiology training: ECDC EPIET fellow supervision, TEPHINET member of Alumni Needs Working Group

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology.

Fellow of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Fellowship Programme.

EU-track fellow, field epidemiology path.

EPIET: European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training.

Monitoring HIV drug resistance in adults and children in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Project manager of the PASER (PharmAccess/Pan African Studies to Evaluate Resistance) and MARCH (Monitoring Antiretroviral Resistance in Children) cohort studies.

• Expert consultant for WHO HIVResNet - a global network advising the World Health Organisation on the control and surveillance of HIV drug resistance.