Projects
Please find below my main areas of work for different Public Health institutions and international networks of experts. I divided all my work into “projects”. The idea is to provide a snaphot overview of different topics I was working with, without the necessity to read the list of pubications.
2020-2021
Notification of infectious diseases in Norway during COVID-19
Comprehensive evaluation of how Norwegian physicians and laboratories were notifying infectious diseases during the COVID-19 crisis, since everyone focused on the new disease.
2009-2021
Attitudes towards vaccination
Investigations of attitudes towards vaccinactions in various target groups in Poland and Norway. Attitudes change in time, depending how effectively institutions maintain public trust.
2010-2012
Comparing vaccination programmes between European countries
For several years, I participated in the VENICE-2 project which systematically collected information from countries on behalf of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
2009-2015
How common is whopping cough?
We organized a nationwide cohort study to measure age-specific pertussis incidence in Poland. We tested all patients with prolonged cough for pertussis and parapertussis.
2008-2016
Guidelines for prophylaxis of meningococcal disease
Together with an international group of experts we reviewed and updated guidelines for invasive menigococcal disease prophylaxis for European Union countries
2004-2019
Tick-borne encephalitis risk based on different data sources
A series of investigations aimed at identifying the best way to measure TBE risk among humans.
2009-2014
Burden of gastrointestinal infections
During 2009-2014, I investigated the burden of gastrointestinal infections in Poland and Europe. This work was funded from the Med-Vet-Net and POLYMOD projects.
2002-2013
Measles and rubella elimination
Ongoing effort to eliminate these two childhood infectious diseases coordinated by the World Health Organisation. I was working with this project when based in the Polish public health institute.
2002-2012
Poliomyelitis eradication initiative
A global programme adopted by all countries in the world to get rid of poliomyelitis by vaccinating all children, monitoring suspect cases and collaborative activities.
1998-2003
Prevalence of tic disorders among Warsaw schoolchildren
A survey to measure prevalence of tic disorders among children 11-12 years old attending 24 randomly selected schools in Warsaw, Poland.
