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==Selected works and publications==
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Maria Van Kerkhove
Born
United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.S., M.S., Ph.D.
Alma materCornell University, Stanford University School of Medicine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
OccupationInfectious disease epidemiologist
Years active2006-present

Dr. Maria D. Van Kerkhove[1] is an American infectious disease epidemiologist. With a background in high threat pathogens, Van Kerkhove specializes in emerging infectious diseases and is based in the Health Emergency Program at the World Health Organization.[2] She is the technical lead of COVID-19 response and the head of emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the World Health Organization.[3][4]

Early life and education

Van Kerkhove was born in the United States.[1]

In 1999, Van Kerkhove received a B.S. in biological sciences from Cornell University.[5] In 2000, she received an M.S. in epidemiology from Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2009, she earned a Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where she wrote her thesis on the avaian flu in Cambodia.[6]

Career

From 2006 to 2008, Van Kerkhove was an epidemiologist at the Institut Pasteur de Cambodia. She was the Head of the Outbreak Investigation Task Force there, conducting field research was surrounding zoonoses, respiratory viruses and emerging/re-emerging viruses such as Ebola and Marburg.[7] She specialized in field research to gather data on the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (HPAI/H5N1) with a focus on transmission risk from poultry to humans.[8]

From 2009 to 2015, Van Kerkhove worked at Imperial College, London as a senior research fellow in Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling. She specialized in Ebola, influenza, meningitis, MERS-CoV, and yellow fever.

In April 2009, Van Kerkhove began working as a technical consultant to the World Health Organization in its Global Capacities, Alert and Response Cluster.[8]

In 2013, Van Kerkhove was a technical consultant for WHO as a member of the MERS-CoV task force.[9]

Van Kerkhove has been an honorary lecturer at Imperial College London since 2015.[8]

Van Kerkhove has been Scientist, Technical Lead MERS-CoV at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, since March 2017.

As part of her work with the World Health Organization, Van Kerkhove appears in regular press conferences by the WHO regarding the 2019-2020 COVID-19 pandemic.[3][10] Van Kerkhove has provided answers to common questions about the pandemic. Van Kerkhove spent two weeks in China to better understand the COVID-19 outbreak to understand how China was trying to control the virus.[2]

Personal life

Van Kerkhove lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband and two sons.

Leadership

  • CONSISE: Consortium for the Standardization of Influenza Seroepidemiology, Member[11]
  • WHO Task Force for MERS-CoV, Member[8]

Selected works and publications

Scholia has a profile for Maria Van Kerkhove (Q28025108).
  • Van Kerkhove, Maria D (2009). "H5N1/Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cambodia: Evaluating poultry movement and the extent of interaction between poultry and humans" (PDF). PhD thesis. London: University of London: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. doi:10.17037/PUBS.00682389.
  • WHO Ebola Response Team; Agua-Agum, J; Ariyarajah, A; Blake, IM; Cori, A; Donnelly, CA; Dorigatti, I; Dye, C; Eckmanns, T; Ferguson, NM; Fraser, C; Garske, T; Hinsley, W; Jombart, T; Mills, HL; Nedjati-Gilani, G; Newton, E; Nouvellet, P; Perkins, D; Riley, S; Schumacher, D; Shah, A; Thomas, LJ; Van Kerkhove, MD (7 January 2016). "Ebola Virus Disease among Male and Female Persons in West Africa". The New England journal of medicine. 374 (1): 96–8. doi:10.1056/NEJMc1510305. PMID 26736011.
  • Aguanno, Ryan; ElIdrissi, Ahmed; Elkholy, Amgad A.; Ben Embarek, Peter; Gardner, Emma; Grant, Rebecca; Mahrous, Heba; Malik, Mamunur Rahman; Pavade, Gounalan; VonDobschuetz, Sophie; Wiersma, Lidewij; Van Kerkhove, Maria D. (November 2018). "MERS: Progress on the global response, remaining challenges and the way forward". Antiviral Research. 159: 35–44. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2018.09.002.
  • Bernard-Stoecklin, Sibylle; Nikolay, Birgit; Assiri, Abdullah; Bin Saeed, Abdul Aziz; Ben Embarek, Peter Karim; El Bushra, Hassan; Ki, Moran; Malik, Mamunur Rahman; Fontanet, Arnaud; Cauchemez, Simon; Van Kerkhove, Maria D. (14 May 2019). "Comparative Analysis of Eleven Healthcare-Associated Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-Cov) from 2015 to 2017". Scientific Reports. 9 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43586-9.
  • Farag, Elmoubasher; Nour, Mohamed; Islam, Md. Mazharul; Mustafa, Aya; Khalid, Minahil; Sikkema, Reina S.; Alhajri, Forhud; Bu-Sayaa, Abdulla; Haroun, Mohamed; Van Kerkhove, Maria D.; Elkholy, Amgad; Malik, Sk. Mamunur R.; Reusken, Chantal; Koopmans, Marion; AlHajri, Mohd M. (June 2019). "Qatar experience on One Health approach for middle-east respiratory syndrome coronavirus, 2012–2017: A viewpoint". One Health. 7: 100090. doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100090.
  • Ramshaw, Rebecca E.; Letourneau, Ian D.; Hong, Amy Y.; Hon, Julia; Morgan, Julia D.; Osborne, Joshua C. P.; Shirude, Shreya; Van Kerkhove, Maria D.; Hay, Simon I.; Pigott, David M. (13 December 2019). "A database of geopositioned Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus occurrences". Scientific Data. 6 (1). doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0330-0.
  • Memish, Ziad A; Perlman, Stanley; Van Kerkhove, Maria D; Zumla, Alimuddin (March 2020). "Middle East respiratory syndrome". The Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)33221-0.
  • Elkholy, Amgad A.; Grant, Rebecca; Assiri, Abdullah; Elhakim, Mohamed; Malik, Mamunur R.; Van Kerkhove, Maria D. (March 2020). "MERS-CoV infection among healthcare workers and risk factors for death: Retrospective analysis of all laboratory-confirmed cases reported to WHO from 2012 to 2 June 2018". Journal of Infection and Public Health. 13 (3): 418–422. doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2019.04.011.

References

  1. ^ a b "2017 Institut Pasteur – OMI Seminar in Pandemics" (PDF). Institut Pasteur. August 2017.
  2. ^ a b Kuzmanovic, Aleks; Van Kerkhove, Dr Maria (17 March 2020). "Q&A on Coronavirus - COVID-19 with WHO's Dr Maria Van Kerkhove". World Health Organization (WHO).
  3. ^ a b Lovelace Jr, Berkeley; Higgins-Dunn, Noah; Feuer, William (16 March 2020). "WHO considers 'airborne precautions' for medical staff after study shows coronavirus can survive in air". CNBC.
  4. ^ Martin, Rachel; Van Kerkhove, Maria (20 March 2020). "What Has The WHO Learned Since The COVID-19 Outbreak Began?". NPR.
  5. ^ Price, Dalton (25 March 2020). "LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let's Not Forget the Women, Van Kerkhove '99 Leads Global COVID-19 Response". The Cornell Daily Sun.
  6. ^ Van Kerkhove, Maria D (2009). "H5N1/Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cambodia: Evaluating poultry movement and the extent of interaction between poultry and humans" (PDF). PhD thesis. London: University of London: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. doi:10.17037/PUBS.00682389.
  7. ^ "MEMBER: PROJECT MANAGER - ALUMNI Maria Van Kerkhove". 2008. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d "Dr Maria D Van Kerkhove, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health - Honorary Lecturer". Imperial College London. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  9. ^ "WHO: Biographies of the members of, and advisers to, the IHR Emergency Committee concerning Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Head, Outbreak Investigation Task Force, Center for Global Health, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France". World Health Organization. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  10. ^ "COVID-19 – Virtual Press conference 18 March, 2020" (PDF). World Health Organization. 18 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Leadership, Steering Committee, & Secretariat". Consortium for the Standardization of Influenza Seroepidemiology (CONSISE). Retrieved 25 March 2020.

External links

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