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Louis Niessen

Louis Niessen
Johns Hopkins 

Louis Niessen, MD is an associate professor International Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He works extensively in health systems around the world, as reported in his book 'Roads to Health'. His PhD combines health, demography & economics.
 

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Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins; Professor at CEDAR, U East Anglia & U Cambridge; Head Centre Chronic Diseases, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh

Academic Degrees

  • MD (Erasmus)
  • Reg PH (NSPH)
  • PhD (Groningen/Erasmus)

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Personal research objective: To contribute to population health through quantitative and qualitative research, making evidence-based contributions to real-life policy.

Topic area 1. Health policy for population health: priority setting, allocative efficiency, reimbursement, evidence-based practice guidelines, public health impact.

Topic area 2. Data-driven integrated modeling of population health: lifetime health and cost of interventions related to risk factors, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, chest disease, breast cancer, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis; impact research in health and reproduction.

Topic area 3. Real-life cluster-trials on (system) interventions in chronic and other diseases, combined with model-based extrapolation and standardisation.

 
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