Biography

Mirjam Bakker is a senior epidemiologist at KIT’s Global Health unit, working in the field of tuberculosis for over 15 years. She is a co-founder of the KIT Centre for Applied Spatial Epidemiology and co-developed the MATCH approach to support NTPs in using subnational data for differentiated programme planning. Mirjam monitors and evaluates a broad range of health interventions. From the start in 2010 she joined the core team of the external M&E agency of TB REACH of the Stop TB Partnership and as such co-developed the TB REACH M&E framework. Mirjam has extensive field experience in LMICs.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Assessing the detection efficiency of community-based active case finding interventions across 7 waves of TB REACH

We found substantial heterogeneity in NNS across ACF characteristics, limiting firm conclusions; however, our findings contribute to the knowledge base required to assess ACF efficiency. Standardized reporting on pre-screening awareness creation activities and size of the catchment population will be important to better evaluate future ACF efficiency.

Source: Conference 2024