Steven Abrams - Master Global Health

Steven Abrams is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Antwerp (Global Health Institute, ESOC), postdoctoral researcher at UHasselt (Center for Statistics, I-BioStat) and member of the Modelling Infectious Diseases (MID) unit within the joint SIMID initiative between both universities. He has worked on various topics within the field of infectious disease modelling such as modelling individual heterogeneity in the acquisition of infectious diseases and outbreak risk assessment in highly vaccinated populations. He is involved in the statistical analysis within several projects on measles, pertussis, tuberculosis, malaria and covid-19 infections. He teaches introductory and advanced courses in statistics and mathematical modeling to undergraduate and graduate students.