Dr Debra ten Brink
Senior Research Officer
Working groups
Background
Dr Debra ten Brink completed her Master of Public Health at Imperial College London with a focus on global health and health economics after completing her medical degree.
Before joining the Burnet Institute, she was a consultant for the WHO's Global Malaria Programme involved in identifying methods to include cost-effectiveness and value for money in the evaluation of new preventive measures for malaria.
Debra now works with the Optima Consortium for Decision Science within the Burnet Institute to support cost-effective decision-making in global health. She works primarily with allocative efficiency models for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, nutrition, and maternal and child health, that have been applied in over 50 countries globally.
Qualifications
- 2017: Master of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
- 2015: Master of Science in Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2011: Bachelor of Science in Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Positions
- 2017-2018: Consultant to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Malaria Programme (GMP)
- 2016: Medical Doctor at Eurocross, the Netherlands
Burnet publications
View 6 moreNew HIV Infections Among Key Populations and Their Partners in 2010 and 2022, by World Region: A Multisources Estimation
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
Eline L. Korenromp et al
Evaluation of the use of modelling in resource allocation decisions for HIV and TB
BMJ Global Health
Anna L. Bowring et al
A quantitative assessment of the consistency of projections from five mathematical models of the HIV epidemic in South Africa: a model comparison study
BMC Public Health
Haroon Moolla et al
Current projects
Optima Nutrition modelling
Optima Nutrition is an open source mathematical modelling tool to help countries respond effectively to nutrition.
Optima HIV modelling
Optima HIV is an open source mathematical modelling tool to help countries respond effectively to HIV.
Optima Tuberculosis modelling
Optima Tuberculosis is an open-source model to aid the fight against TB. It combines epidemiological and economic algorithms to find the best ways to optimise resources and reduce disease.
