Code
01D35510
Duration
01 October 2010 → 31 March 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Animal biology
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Medical and health sciences
- Tropical medicine
- Tropical medicine
- Public health care
- Public health sciences
- Public health services
- Tropical medicine
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Veterinary medicine
- Other veterinary sciences
- Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Keywords
Nepal
surveillance systems
cystercosis
burden assessment
zoonoses
bovine tuberculosis
agent-based modelling
Japanese encephalitis
Project description
Surveillance systems are rarely optimally used as data generating mechanisms. In this project, different sampling procedures will be tested on agent-based diseases transmission models. The surveillance results will then be evaluated in a Bayesian statistical framework and incorporated in an improved burden assessment. This will be done for three zoonoses in Nepal: cysticercosis, bovine tuberculosis and Japanese encephalitis.