My studies focus on modeling infectious diseases: Bayesian mixture models for
antibodies to childhood infections in order to estimate the prevalence and the force of
infection by age; multivariate models for binary data applied to HCV and HIV infections
in injecting drug users (IDU); use of social contact data for the analysis of varicella
at European level.

Articles

Joint Modeling of HCV and HIV Co-Infection among Injecting Drug Users in Italy and Spain Using Individual Cross-Sectional Data (with Ziv Shkedy, Niel Hens, Marc Aerts, Barbara Suligoi, Laura Camoni, Fernando Vallejo, Lucas Wiessing, and Mirjam Kretzschmar), Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases (2011)

The aim of the analysis presented in this paper is to study co-infection with hepatitis...

 
Joint Modeling of HCV and HIV Infections among Injecting Drug Users in Italy Using Repeated Cross-Sectional Prevalence Data (with Adetayo Kasim, Muhammad Usman, Ziv Shkedy, Niel Hens, Marc Aerts, Kaatje Bollaerts, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Peter Vickerman, Andrew J. Sutton, Lucas Wiessing, and Mirjam Kretzschmar), Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases (2011)

During their injecting career, injecting drug users (IDUs) are exposed to some infections, like hepatitis...