Niel Hens (N Hens)

ResearcherID ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2017-2024
Publications (10 Years): 43

Top Topics

Infectious Diseases

Men Who Have Sex With Men

Top Venues

Epidemiology and infection

PLoS computational biology

BMC infectious diseases

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Publications

Neilshan Loedy, Jacco Wallinga, Niel Hens, Andrea Torneri
Repetition in social contacts: implications in modelling the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in pre-pandemic and pandemic settings. Proceedings. Biological sciences 291 (2027) (2024)
Neilshan Loedy, Jacco Wallinga, Niel Hens, Andrea Torneri
Repetition in social contacts: implications in modelling the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in pre-pandemic and pandemic settings. Proceedings. Biological sciences 291 (2027) (2024)
Achilleas Tsoumanis, Wim Vanden Berghe, Niel Hens, Christophe Van Dijck
Estimating Partnership Duration among MSM in Belgium-A Modeling Study. Infectious disease reports 16 (3) (2024)
Maxime Fajgenblat, Geert Molenberghs, Johan Verbeeck, Lander Willem, Jonas Crèvecoeur, Christel Faes, Niel Hens, Patrick Deboosere, Geert Verbeke, Thomas Neyens
Evaluating the direct effect of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Communications medicine 4 (1) (2024)
Achilleas Tsoumanis, Wim Vanden Berghe, Niel Hens, Christophe Van Dijck
Estimating Partnership Duration among MSM in Belgium-A Modeling Study. Infectious disease reports 16 (3) (2024)
Cécile Kremer, Lander Willem, Jorden Boone, Wouter Arrazola de Oñate, Naïma Hammami, Christel Faes, Niel Hens
Key performance indicators of COVID-19 contact tracing in Belgium from September 2020 to December 2021. PloS one 18 (10) (2023)
Yannick Vandendijck, Oswaldo Gressani, Christel Faes, Carlo G Camarda, Niel Hens
Cohort-based smoothing methods for age-specific contact rates. Biostatistics (Oxford, England) (2023)
Achilleas Tsoumanis, Christophe Van Dijck, Niel Hens, Chris Kenyon
Rethinking Screening Intensity in Terms of Reducing Prevalence or Increasing Selection Pressure for the Emergence of Resistant Gonorrhea: A Modeling Study of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Belgium. Open forum infectious diseases 10 (4) (2023)
Signe Møgelmose, Laurens Vijnck, Frank Neven, Karel Neels, Philippe Beutels, Niel Hens
Population age and household structures shape transmission dynamics of emerging infectious diseases: a longitudinal microsimulation approach. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20 (209) (2023)
Achilleas Tsoumanis, Christophe Van Dijck, Niel Hens, Chris Kenyon
Rethinking Screening Intensity in Terms of Reducing Prevalence or Increasing Selection Pressure for the Emergence of Resistant Gonorrhea: A Modeling Study of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Belgium. Open forum infectious diseases 10 (4) (2023)
Ynke Larivière, Irene Garcia-Fogeda, Trésor Matuvanga Zola, Bernard Isekah Osang'ir, Solange Milolo, Rachel Meta, Primo Kimbulu, Cynthia Robinson, Michael Katwere, Chelsea M McLean, Niel Hens, Junior Rika Matangila, Vivi Maketa, Patrick Mitashi, Hypolite Mavoko Muhindo, Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden, Pierre van Damme
Safety and Immunogenicity of the Heterologous 2-Dose Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo Vaccine Regimen in Health Care Providers and Frontliners of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Journal of infectious diseases (2023)
Helene Vermeulen, Niel Hens, Lucy Catteau, Boudewijn Catry, Samuel Coenen
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community antibiotic consumption in the EU/European Economic Area: a changepoint analysis. The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2023)
T Van Effelterre, Niel Hens, L J White, S Gravenstein, A R Bastian, N Buyukkaramikli, C-Y Cheng, J Hartnett, G Krishnarajah, K Weber, L Hernandez Pastor
Modeling Respiratory Syncytial Virus Adult Vaccination in the United States with a Dynamic Transmission Model. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)
Bianca De Sá É Silva, Niel Hens, Gustavo Gusso, Susan Lagaert, James Macinko, Sara J Willems
Dual Use of Public and Private Health Care Services in Brazil. International journal of environmental research and public health 19 (3) (2022)
Vladimira Varbanova, Frederik Verelst, Niel Hens, Philippe Beutels
Determinants of basic childhood vaccination coverage in European and OECD countries. Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics (2022)
Nicolas Franco, Pietro Coletti, Lander Willem, Leonardo Angeli, Adrien Lajot, Steven Abrams, Philippe Beutels, Christel Faes, Niel Hens
Inferring age-specific differences in susceptibility to and infectiousness upon SARS-CoV-2 infection based on Belgian social contact data. PLoS computational biology 18 (3) (2022)
Andrea Torneri, Lander Willem, Vittoria Colizza, Cécile Kremer, Christelle Meuris, Gilles Darcis, Niel Hens, Pieter J K Libin
Controlling SARS-CoV-2 in schools using repetitive testing strategies. eLife 11 (2022)
Oswaldo Gressani, Jacco Wallinga, Christian L Althaus, Niel Hens, Christel Faes
EpiLPS: A fast and flexible Bayesian tool for estimation of the time-varying reproduction number. PLoS computational biology 18 (10) (2022)
Thang Van Hoang, Lander Willem, Pietro Coletti, Kim Van Kerckhove, Joeri Minnen, Philippe Beutels, Niel Hens
Exploring human mixing patterns based on time use and social contact data and their implications for infectious disease transmission models. BMC infectious diseases 22 (1) (2022)
Thi Huyen Trang Nguyen, Christel Faes, Niel Hens
Measles epidemic in Southern Vietnam: an age-stratified spatio-temporal model for infectious disease counts. Epidemiology and infection 150 (2022)
Thang Van Hoang, Lander Willem, Pietro Coletti, Kim Van Kerckhove, Joeri Minnen, Philippe Beutels, Niel Hens
Exploring human mixing patterns based on time use and social contact data and their implications for infectious disease transmission models. BMC infectious diseases 22 (1) (2022)
Elise J Kuylen, Andrea Torneri, Lander Willem, Pieter J K Libin, Steven Abrams, Pietro Coletti, Nicolas Franco, Frederik Verelst, Philippe Beutels, Jori Liesenborgs, Niel Hens
Different forms of superspreading lead to different outcomes: Heterogeneity in infectiousness and contact behavior relevant for the case of SARS-CoV-2. PLoS computational biology 18 (8) (2022)
Thang Van Hoang, Lander Willem, Pietro Coletti, Kim Van Kerckhove, Joeri Minnen, Philippe Beutels, Niel Hens
Exploring human mixing patterns based on time use and social contact data and their implications for infectious disease transmission models. BMC infectious diseases 22 (1) (2022)
Laura Heireman, Steven Abrams, Peggy Bruynseels, Reinoud Cartuyvels, Lize Cuypers, Pieter De Schouwer, Wim Laffut, Katrien Lagrou, Niel Hens, Erwin Ho, Elizaveta Padalko, Marijke Reynders, Sarah Vandamme, Nathalie Van der Moeren, Walter Verstrepen, Philippe Willems, Reinout Naesens
Evaluation of the SARS-CoV-2 positivity ratio and upper respiratory tract viral load among asymptomatic individuals screened before hospitalization or surgery in Flanders, Belgium. PloS one 16 (11) (2021)
Pieter J K Libin, Lander Willem, Timothy Verstraeten, Andrea Torneri, Joris Vanderlocht, Niel Hens
Assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of household-pooled universal testing to control COVID-19 epidemics. PLoS computational biology 17 (3) (2021)
Lander Willem, Steven Abrams, Pieter J K Libin, Pietro Coletti, Elise Kuylen, Oana Petrof, Signe Møgelmose, James Wambua, Sereina Annik Herzog, Christel Faes, Philippe Beutels, Niel Hens
The impact of contact tracing and household bubbles on deconfinement strategies for COVID-19. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
Thao Mai Phuong Tran, Steven Abrams, Marc Aerts, Kirsten Maertens, Niel Hens
Measuring association among censored antibody titer data. Statistics in medicine 40 (16) (2021)
Andrea Torneri, Pieter J K Libin, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Christel Faes, James G Wood, Niel Hens
On realized serial and generation intervals given control measures: The COVID-19 pandemic case. PLoS computational biology 17 (3) (2021)
Lise Boey, Mathieu Roelants, Joanna Merckx, Niel Hens, Isabelle Desombere, Els Duysburgh, Corinne Vandermeulen
Age-dependent seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in school-aged children from areas with low and high community transmission. European journal of pediatrics (2021)
Reinout Naesens, Helena Mertes, Johan Clukers, Sereina Herzog, Christiane Brands, Philippe Vets, Inneke De Laet, Peggy Bruynseels, Pieter De Schouwer, Sanne van der Maas, Katrien Bervoets, Niel Hens, Pierre Van Damme
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence survey among health care providers in a Belgian public multiple-site hospital. Epidemiology and infection 149 (2021)
Robin Bruyndonckx, Samuel Coenen, Niel Hens, E Vandael, Boudewijn Catry, H Goossens
Antibiotic use and resistance in Belgium: the impact of two decades of multi-faceted campaigning. Acta clinica Belgica 76 (4) (2020)
Adelino J C Juga, Niel Hens, Nafissa Osman, Marc Aerts
Factors associated with HIV serodiscordance among couples in Mozambique: Comparison of the 2009 INSIDA and 2015 IMASIDA surveys. PloS one 15 (6) (2020)
Andrea Torneri, Pieter Libin, Joris Vanderlocht, Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Johan Neyts, Niel Hens
A prospect on the use of antiviral drugs to control local outbreaks of COVID-19. BMC medicine 18 (1) (2020)
G Suzanne A Smit, Steven Abrams, P Dorny, N Speybroeck, B Devleesschauwer, V Hutse, H Jansens, H Theeten, P Beutels, Niel Hens
The seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in Belgium anno 2002 and 2006: a comparative analysis with hepatitis A virus seroprevalence. Epidemiology and infection 147 (2020)
Toon Braeye, F Echahidi, A Meghraoui, V Laisnez, Niel Hens
Short-term associations between Legionnaires' disease incidence and meteorological variables in Belgium, 2011-2019. Epidemiology and infection 148 (2020)
Toon Braeye, Niel Hens
Optimising the case-crossover design for use in shared exposure settings. Epidemiology and infection 148 (2020)
Özgür Muhammet Koc, Cécile Kremer, Niel Hens, Rob Bielen, Dana Busschots, Pierre Van Damme, Geert Robaeys
Early detection of chronic hepatitis B and risk factor assessment in Turkish migrants, Middle Limburg, Belgium. PloS one 15 (7) (2020)
Thanh Vinh Pham, Hong Van Nguyen, Angel Rosas Aguirre, Van Van Nguyen, Mario A Cleves, Xa Xuan Nguyen, Thao Thanh Nguyen, Duong Thanh Tran, Hung Xuan Le, Niel Hens, Anna Rosanas-Urgell, Umberto D Alessandro, Niko Speybroeck, Annette Erhart
Plasmodium vivax morbidity after radical cure: A cohort study in Central Vietnam. PLoS medicine 16 (5) (2019)
Jori Liesenborgs, Diana M Hendrickx, Elise Kuylen, David Niyukuri, Niel Hens, Wim Delva
SimpactCyan 1.0: An Open-source Simulator for Individual-Based Models in HIV Epidemiology with R and Python Interfaces. Scientific reports 9 (1) (2019)
Tapiwa Ganyani, Kimberlyn Roosa, Christel Faes, Niel Hens, Gerardo Chowell
Assessing the relationship between epidemic growth scaling and epidemic size: The 2014-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Epidemiology and infection 147 (2018)
Jozefien Buyze, W Vanden Berghe, Niel Hens, Chris Richard Kenyon
Current levels of gonorrhoea screening in MSM in Belgium may have little effect on prevalence: a modelling study. Epidemiology and infection 146 (3) (2018)
Osvaldo Loquiha, Niel Hens, Leonardo Chavane, Marleen Temmerman, Nafissa Osman, Christel Faes, Marc Aerts
Mapping maternal mortality rate via spatial zero-inflated models for count data: A case study of facility-based maternal deaths from Mozambique. PloS one 13 (11) (2018)
Ines Frederix, Dominique Vandijck, Niel Hens, Johan De Sutter, Paul Dendale
Economic and social impact of increased cardiac rehabilitation uptake and cardiac telerehabilitation in Belgium - a cost-benefit analysis. Acta cardiologica 73 (3) (2017)