Public health

Biography

Dr. Vasylyeva is an expert in molecular and socio-behavioral epidemiology, with a particular focus on HIV epidemics in migrant and forcibly displaced populations. Her work is aimed at utilizing phylodynamics and epidemiological modelling to describe the spread of viral infectious diseases in a population and assess different prevention strategies. Her current aim is to develop a framework for rapid socio-molecular epidemiology investigations in forcibly displaced populations.

Biography

Lara obtained her PhD in statistical genomics from EMBL-EBI, EMBL, and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 2019. As an independent Humboldt Research Fellow in New Zealand, Lara then combined this expertise with her background in ecology, and applied genomics and machine learning in the context of nature conservation. In 2022, Lara obtained a Helmholtz Principal Investigator Grant to start her own research group at the Helmholtz AI Institute as a faculty member of the Technical University of Munich; her research group now leverages genomics and AI to better understand One Health.

Biography

Dr. Antoni P.A. Hendrickx is a molecular microbiologist, researcher, and national coordinator of the CPE/CPPA/MRSA/CRAb surveillance in the Netherlands. He is a PhD supervisor, national focal contact point for AMR, and he is active in the field of public health genomics at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.