Realist Lab
Team
Our core members are based at the Ecohealth research group of the Department of Public Health at ITM.
Others have been working with us for years to develop the field of realist review, evaluation and research, such as the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru (India) and CERRHUD (Benin).
The team has developed a large portfolio of research and evaluation, covering a wide range of topics. We apply the realist approach to service organisation, leadership and management, programmes, policy development and implementation. Working with partners and other units at ITM, we worked on adherence to new ART formulations, the development and implementation of a new policy for tuberculosis control in Georgia, tobacco control policies in India, etc.
The origins of the Lab go back to the Theory-Driven Inquiry Network, which was set up with Marjolein Dieleman, Barend Gerritsen and Sumit Kane (KIT Amsterdam) and convened at ITM in 2010. Since then, we grew into a leading hub for realist evaluation and research, with a specific focus on health policy and systems research in the Global South.
Contact
Bruno Marchal
✉ bmarchal@itg.be
Sara Van Belle
✉ svanbelle@itg.be
Staff
Bruno Marchal
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (Belgium)
Joris Michielsen
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (Belgium)
Virginia Plezguelo
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (Belgium)
Nandini Sarkar
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (Belgium)
Houssynatou Sy
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (Belgium)
Sara Van Belle
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (Belgium)
Realist Network
Zakaria Belrhiti
Mohamed VI University of Sciences and Health (Morocco)
Christelle Boyi
Centre de recherche en reproduction
humaine et en démographie (Bénin)
Jean-Paul Dossou
Centre de recherche en reproduction
humaine et en démographie (Bénin)
Pragati Hebbar
Institute of Public Health Bengaluru (India)
Dimitri Renmans
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Prashanth Srinivar
Institute of Public Health Bengaluru (India)
Thérèse Van Durme
L'Institut de recherche santé et société (IRSS) et la Faculté de santé publique (FSP), l'Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Monika Martens
Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Tom Cornu
Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Samuel Bosongo Itigaino
Centre de Connaissances en Santé en République démocratique du Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Ferdinand Mukumbang
Department of Global Health, University of Washington (United States)