Brecht is a pharmacist and infectious disease epidemiologist using population-based epidemiological studies to track risk or outcome data, to inform infectious disease prevention/control.
Research foci include community-level factors including behaviour determining the transmission of (antimicrobial resistant) pathogens, risk/exposure surveillance to track transmission of infectious diseases or for AMR, and evaluation of primary care or community-based AMR control interventions.
PhD dissertation (Utrecht University, 2023): https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/427300
Research projects:
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Optimising community antibiotic use and environmental infection control with behavioural interventions in rural Burkina Faso and DR Congo: https://jpiamr.eu/projects/cabu-eico/ (completed May 2025)
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Active one health surveillance in LMICs to monitor and predict Antimicrobial Resistance Using Metagenomics: https://jpiamr.eu/projects/alarum/ (ongoing)
- BE-PIN: https://www.belspo.be/belspo/Post-Covid/project_en.stm (ongoing)
- Characterising Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a Peri-urban Population in Mozambique Using Population-based (Sero)Surveillance: https://www.itg.be/en/research/projects/africover (completed Dec 2023)