Biography

Roel Bakker, PhD, is a senior consultant modelling who works for the TB Modelling Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and also for the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in The Hague, Netherlands. He has 25 years of experience in modelling infectious disease epidemics. Previously, he worked for the section Infectious Diseases at the dept of Public Health of Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam and at the same time as a lecturer Computer Science at Rotterdam University where he has been teaching Statistical Learning / Machine Learning and AI. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

TBMod: A flexible, open-source framework for modelling TB

TBMod is a flexible framework with increasing utility from new features. These allow us to better estimate the impact, effectiveness and cost of interventions to identify and counter TB. In turn, we can select an optimal mix of interventions for a given budget.

Source: Conference 2024

Research Summaries

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TB vaccine impact hinges on blocking asymptomatic infectious disease
24 Mar 2025
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Aid cuts could cause hundreds of thousands more tuberculosis deaths by 2035
25 Apr 2025
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Cuts to global TB aid could push millions into poverty
13 Aug 2025
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Which TB interventions give the biggest health and economic gains?
04 Sep 2025