Maria Van Kerkhove

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Maria Van Kerkhove (2020)

Maria Rose DeJoseph Van Kerkhove , born Maria Rosanne DeJoseph (born February 20, 1977 in Hartford , New York , United States ), is an American epidemiologist . She has many years of experience in the development and spread of infectious diseases and has carried out epidemiological studies in Asia, North, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa.

Life and academic career

Van Kerkhove was born in Hartford in 1977 and grew up there with her twin sister Alisa. Her parents were Mary and Peter DeJoseph. With a well-founded background knowledge of highly dangerous pathogens , Van Kerkhove specialized in emerging infectious diseases and works in the Health Emergency Program of the World Health Organization (WHO). She is the head of the Department for New Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses at the WHO and is the technical director for the COVID-19 work area .

In May 1999, Van Kerkhove acquired the academic degree of Bachelor of Science (BS) of the life sciences at the Cornell University and in June 2000 the Master of Science (MS) in epidemiology at the School of Medicine of Stanford University . From 2006 to 2008 she worked as an epidemiologist at the Pasteur du Cambodge Institute in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh . There she was head of the Outbreak Investigation Task Force . The field research dealt with zoonoses, respiratory viruses and new or recurring viruses such as Ebola and Marburg . She collected data on the highly pathogenic avian ("bird-derived") influenza A virus H5N1 , with a focus on the risk of transmission from poultry to humans. With her dissertation H5N1 / Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cambodia: Evaluating poultry movement and the extent of interaction between poultry and humans , she obtained the Ph.D. in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine .

World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva

From March 2009 to January 2015 Van Kerkhove worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London in the Medical Research Council Center for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling . She specialized in Ebola fever , flu , meningitis , MERS-CoV and yellow fever and has been available to the WHO as a technical advisor in the Global Capacities, Alert and Response Cluster since April 2009 . In 2013 she became a member of the MERS-CoV task force of the WHO. Van Kerkhove has been an honorary professor at Imperial College London since 2015. From 2015 to 2017 she was the head of the Outbreak Investigation Task Force at the Center for Global Health of the Pasteur Institute in Paris .

Since March 2017 she has been a scientist and technical director of the MERS-CoV department at the WHO in Geneva . Her tasks there include providing advice on the COVID-19 pandemic at WHO's regular press conferences . Van Kerkhove spent two weeks in China researching the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak and learning from China's attempts to get the SARS-CoV-2 virus under control.

Today she lives with her husband Neil James Van Kerkhove, whom she married on September 13, 2003 in Manhattan, and their two sons in Geneva.

Publications (selection)

  • FAO-OIE-WHO MERS Technical Working Group: MERS: Progress on the global response, remaining challenges and the way forward . In: Antiviral Research . tape 159 , 2018, p. 35-44 .
  • Ebola Outbreak Epidemiology Team: Outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, April – May, 2018: an epidemiological study . In: The Lancet . tape 392 , no. 10143 , June 2018, p. 1-9 .
  • International Ebola Response Team: Exposure Patterns Driving Ebola Transmission in West Africa: A Retrospective Observational Study . In: PLoS Medicine . Volume 13, No. 11 , November 2016, p. 1-23 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: Harmonization of Zika virus research protocols to address key public health concerns . In: The Lancet. Global Health . Volume 4, No. November 12 , 2016.
  • WHO Ebola Response Team: After Ebola in West Africa - Unpredictable Risks, Preventable Epidemics . In: New England Journal of Medicine . tape 375 , no. 6 , August 2016, p. 587-596 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: Interpreting Results From Environmental Contamination Studies of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus . In: Clinical Infectious Diseases . tape 63 , no. 8 , October 15, 2016, p. 1142 .
  • Hasan M. Al-Dorzi, MD Van Kerkhove et al .: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus . In: European respiratory monograph . June 2016.
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: Risk factors for severe outcomes among members of the United States military hospitalized with pneumonia and influenza, 2000–2012 . In: Vaccine . Volume 33, No. 49 , October 2015, p. 6970-6975 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making . In: Scientific Data . Vol. 2, May 2015, p. 1-10 .
  • Peter K. Ben Embarek, MD Van Kerkhove: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): current situation 3 years after the virus was first identified . In: Weekly epidemiological record . Volume 90, No. May 20 , 2015, p. 245-250 .
  • Tini Garske, MD Van Kerkhove: Yellow Fever in Africa: Estimating the Burden of Disease and Impact of Mass Vaccination from Outbreak and Serological Data . In: PLoS Medicine . Vol. 11, No. 5 , May 2014, p. 1-17 .
  • Simon Cauchemez, MD Van Kerkhove: School closures during the 2009 influenza pandemic: National and local experiences . In: BMC Infectious Diseases . Volume 14, No. 1 , April 2014, p. 1-11 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove, J. Wood: Conclusions of the fourth CONSISE international meeting . In: Eurosurveillance . Volume 19, No. 1 , January 2014, p. 1-2 .
  • Neil M. Ferguson, MD Van Kerkhove: Identification of MERS-CoV in dromedary camels . In: The Lancet. Infectious Diseases . Volume 14, No. December 2 , 2013.
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove: Brief literature review for the WHO global influenza research agenda - Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 risk in humans . In: Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses . tape 7 , s2, September 2013, p. 26-33 .
  • Aaron D. Storms, MD Van Kerkhove et al .: Worldwide transmission and seasonal variation of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus activity during the 2009-2010 pandemic . In: Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses . tape 7 , no. 6 , March 2013, p. 1328-1335 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: Estimating Age-Specific Cumulative Incidence for the 2009 Influenza Pandemic: A Meta-Analysis of A (H1N1) pdm09 Serological Studies from 19 countries . In: Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses . tape 7 , no. 5 , January 2013, p. 872-886 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: The consortium for the standardization of influenza seroepidemiology (CONSISE): a global partnership to standardize influenza seroepidemiology and develop influenza investigation protocols to inform public health policy . In: Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses . tape 7 , no. December 3 , 2012.
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove: Poultry Movement and Sustained HPAI Risk in Cambodia . In: David Zilberman et al. (Ed.): Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries . Springer, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4419-7077-0 , pp. 233-263 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Neil M. Ferguson: Epidemic and intervention modeling - a scientific rationale for policy decisions? Lessons from the 2009 influenza pandemic . In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization . tape 90 , no. 4 , April 2012, p. 306-310 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: Risk Factors for Severe Outcomes following 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Infection: A Global Pooled Analysis . In: PLoS Medicine . Volume 8, No. July 7 , 2011.
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: Epidemiologic and virologic assessment of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic on selected temperate countries in the Southern Hemisphere: Argentina, Australia, Chile, New Zealand and South Africa . In: Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses . tape 5 , no. 6 , April 2011, p. 487-498 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: 2009 Versus 2010 comparison of influenza activity in southern hemisphere temperate countries . In: Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses . tape 5 , no. 6 , March 2011, p. 375-379 .
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove et al .: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1): Pathways of Exposure at the Animal ‐ Human Interface, a Systematic Review . In: PLoS ONE . Vol. 6, No. January 1 , 2011.
  • Maria D. Van Kerkhove: H5N1 / Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cambodia: Evaluating poultry movement and the extent of interaction between poultry and humans . London 2009, doi : 10.17037 / PUBS.00682389 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. a b Reid Wilson: Exclusive: Meet the top American fighting COVID-19 at WHO. The Hill, April 20, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  3. a b World Health Organization (WHO): Q&A on Coronavirus - COVID-19 with WHO's Dr Maria Van Kerkhove - originally broadcast March 17, 2020 on YouTube , March 24, 2020, accessed on May 1, 2020.
  4. a b Berkeley Lovelace jun. et al .: WHO considers 'airborne precautions' for medical staff after study shows coronavirus can survive in air. CNBC, March 16, 2020, accessed May 3, 2020 .
  5. What Has The WHO Learned Since The COVID-19 Outbreak Began? NPR, March 20, 2020, accessed May 3, 2020 .
  6. Dalton Price: Letter to the Editor: Let's Not Forget the Women, Van Kerkhove '99 Leads Global COVID-19 Response. The Cornell Daily Sun, March 25, 2020; accessed May 3, 2020 .
  7. Maria D. Van Kerkhove: H5N1 / Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Cambodia: Evaluating poultry movement and the extent of interaction between poultry and humans . London 2009, doi : 10.17037 / PUBS.00682389 .
  8. Biographies of the members of, and advisers to, the IHR Emergency Committee concerning Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). World Health Organization, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  9. ^ Institut Pasteur OMI seminar in Salzburg: “Pandemics”. Institut Pasteur, 2017, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  10. COVID-19 - Virtual Press conference March 18, 2020. World Health Organization, March 18, 2020, accessed on May 1, 2020 .