Lisanne Gerstel
- Department
- Education
- Title
- Team lead Education
- Phone
- +31 (0)20 568 8305
- l.gerstel@kit.nl
Lisanne Gerstel is a medical doctor and field epidemiologist by training with over 16 years of work experience in public health.
Working mostly on tuberculosis (TB) projects, she is an external monitoring and evaluation officer in for pilots of innovative interventions for TB Control under TB REACH since 2010 in several countries. She is focal point for Ukraine under the Strategic Initiative to find the missing cases of TB which is funded by the Global Fund and implemented by the Stop TB Partnership and World Health Organization.
Post Graduate Education in Public Health is another area that she is passionate about. She is Programme Director of the Master programmes at KIT and part of the coordination team of the Master of Public Health. In this programme she coordinates modules on epidemiology and disease control of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Lisanne enjoys the exploration of new learning methods, reviewing course curricula and evaluating them against training needs and developments in the field.
Projects
Publications
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Results from a roving, active case-finding initiative to improve TB detection among older people in rural Cambodia using the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and chest X-ray
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Research article
Background: Cambodia has one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) prevalence rates in the world. People aged 55 years and over account for an estimated 50% of the country’s TB burden, yet this group has a low notification rate owing to specific barriers in accessing health services. One-off active case finding (ACF) days with mobile GeneXpert […]
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Barriers to mental health services at public health centers: Providers’ perspectives
The findings of this study highlight the importance of national policy dissemination and collaboration between local government, health providers and CHWs to overcome the barriers in providing MH services at PHC level. Background and purpose: The disparity between the increasing prevalence of mental health (MH) illness and the availability of treatment in Indonesia remains high, […]
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Performance of algorithms for TB active case-finding in underserved high-prevalence settings in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from an infectious disease, causing 1.6 million deaths in 2017 [1]. Although improved access to and quality of TB care have reduced TB-related mortality since 1990, more than one third of an estimated 10 million new cases of active TB remain undiagnosed every year, which is a […]
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Sustainability of the activities of the International Vaccine Institute Seoul
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Report
The purpose of this project was to perform a study to assess the sustainability, in terms of funding as well as the International Vaccine Institute’s (IVI) external communication and visibility Results The outcome of the project is a 16 page report (excluding Annexes) describing the main achievements, collaboration, sustainability and communication of the International Vaccine […]
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Fifteen years of the tropEd Masters in International Health programme: what has it delivered? Results of an alumni survey of masters students in international health
n 2010–2011, recent graduates (2008 or earlier) of the Masters in International Health (MIH) (as offered by over 30 universities and institutions collaborating in the tropEd network) were surveyed. We aimed to examine whether the competencies gained proved appropriate for alumni’s current positions and to develop the programme according to alumni’s needs.