Global Health Institute search menu search content South Sudan Nodding Syndrome: a trans-disciplinary approach to identify the cause and decrease the incidence of river epilepsy (NSETHIO) Abstract: Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurological, incurable syndrome, currently affecting mainly children betwe…

Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Research projects on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute Research projects on OAE and Nodding syndrome Reducing onchocerciasis-associated morbidity in children (2022-2025) Joseph Nelson Fodjo Siewe is curren…

Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Scientific publications on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute OAE-related Academic Publications Explore the scholarly studies and articles on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE). Bhwana D. Onchocercias…

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo postdoc researcher FWO Publications Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo Epidemiology of epilepsy in Wulu County, an onchocerciasis-endemic area in South Sudan Source Heliyon - ISSN 2405-8440-10:18 (2024) p. 1-12 Author(s) Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Stephen Raimon Jada, Abraham Taban,…

Center for Oncological Research search menu search content Publications Prognostic value of KRAS/TP53 status for overall survival in first-line monoimmunotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy treated patients with nonsquamous NSCLC in the Netherlands : a brief report Source JTO clinical and research report…

Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment Publications Robert Colebunders High prevalence of onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in villages in Maridi County, Republic of South Sudan : a community-based survey Source Seizure: European journal of epilepsy - ISSN 1059…

Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content River epilepsy/Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) and Nodding syndrome - Global Health Institute What is OAE and Nodding syndrome? Blackflies are the vectors that transmit the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. This worm causes onc…

University Fund search menu search content Nodding disease Help us prevent nodding disease Learn more about the nodding disease What is nodding disease? Nodding disease, or nodding syndrome, is a form of epilepsy that occurs in children between the ages of five and fifteen in South Sudan, Uganda, Ta…

Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment Research Robert Colebunders Research team Global Health Institute (GHI) Expertise Training and providing advice in the field of infectious diseases, tropical medicine, travel medicine and HIV infection and assistance in est…

Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content In the press OAE-related news in the press Our research on Nodding syndrome has been covered extensively in the media: Nodding syndrome: pathology and prevention – an interview with Robert Colebunders (Infectious Diseases Hub 16/02/2017…

Exiled and separated search menu search content Who are we Milena Belloni is the key investigator in this project. She is an ethnographer specialized in migration and refugee studies. Milena has conducted extensive fieldwork in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Italy and Holland. Her research mainly concern…

Global Health Institute search menu search content Publications An overview of the most recent articles published in the academic bibliography of the university of Antwerp of our in-house staff members can be found below. Most of our articles are accessible as we favor open-access publishing. If you…

Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Scientific research on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - Global Health Institute Scientific research on OAE and Nodding syndrome There is a high prevalence and incidence of epilepsy in many onchocerciasis endemic regions where on…

Samuel Grinsell unpaid staff Publications Samuel Grinsell Imperial culture and the Sudan Source European review of history - ISSN 1350-7486-29:1 (2022) p. 114-115 Author(s) Samuel Grinsell Citation link Urbanism, environment and the buildings of the Anglo-Egyptian Nile valley, 1880s-1920s Source ABE…

Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Scientific presentations on Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) - GHI Global Insights on OAE: Keynote Presentations Dive into a curated collection of slides and insights from OAE-related presentations delivered at international confe…

Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment About Robert Colebunders Robert Colebunders Contact Show email address Tel. +3232651804 Doornstraat 331 2610 Wilrijk, BEL Robert (Bob) Colebunders was in the past mainly involved in research on HIV, tuberculosis and hemorrh…

Pandemic Preparedness | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Previous editions Reactions from participants "The program was exceptionally well-structured and provided invaluable insights into pandemic preparedness. Being part of this summer school was a truly enrichin…

Global Health Institute search menu search content DR Congo Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in school children: from research into policy Abstract Malaria remains a major public health threat despite considerable progress on control in the past decade. We, and others, demonstrated that …

Robert Colebunders emeritus occasional assignment - emeritus with assignment About Robert Colebunders NSETHIO, project funded by ERC, Horizon 2020 Nodding Syndrome: a trans-disciplinary approach to identify the cause and decrease the incidence of river epilepsy Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurologica…

Milena Belloni TT. asst. research professor About Milena Belloni Milena Belloni Contact Stadscampus Show email address Tel. +3232651067 Sint-Jacobstraat 2 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Milena Belloni is an ethnographer specialized in migration and refugee studies. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Erit…

USOS search menu search content Programme 2019 The role of the private sector in sustainable development The recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a multi-dimensional framework to achieve economic growth, social inclusion and…

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content Political Chronicles 2022 of the African Great Lakes Region Continuing the tradition of L’Afrique des grands lacs: Annuaire, this companion volume to Conjonctures de l’Afrique centrale (Paris, L’Harmattan), offers a survey of political de…

Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy search menu search content Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy (OAE) research team - Global Health Institute Professor Colebunders & his team as of 2023 Robert Colebunders, MD, PhD is an emeritus professor of tropical diseases at the Institute of Tropical Medicine a…

Henry van de Velde search menu search content Menatalla Ahmed To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space Promotors: Els De Vos, Johan De Walsche This research investigates how gender relations become manifest in the design, uses and representations of the built envi…

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content 28 January 2025 from 12:30 until 14:00 (CET) ‘Some people rather die of a gunshot than of hunger’: how refugees in Northern Uganda navigate targeted and reduced food assistance Speaker: Roos Derrix What does the label ‘refugee’ mean and…