Biography
Ente J.J. Rood, MSc, PhD, is a senior researcher and the team lead of the Epidemiology team at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute and one of the founders and core member of the Centre for Applied Spatial Epidemiology (CASE). Ente is specialized in infectious disease epidemiology, and health systems research. He has led the implementation of multi-country operational research projects to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to improve the coverage and access to health services. He is an expert in geo-spatial data analysis to monitor disease burden and to evaluate the effectiveness programme performance.
Key Impacts
Exploring added value of novel data sources for small area prediction of TB burden in Pakistan: Private sector sales, telecom mobility and satellite imagery data
In the absence of TB data, socioeconomic predictors are powerful to support initial prioritization of TB case finding and outperform TB notifications and rifampicin utilization. However, highest predictive power is found in spatially explicit models accounting for locally observed TB yield. Geographically targeting higher-risk localities can be based on methodologies of varying levels of complexity, and even simple approaches can contribute to rational and evidence-based decision making for TB control.
Source: Conference 2024