Jacco Wallinga

Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)


Jacco Wallinga is a population biologist who is interested in infection dynamics. He obtained his MSc at Wageningen University in 1992, and his PhD at the same university in 1998. Since 1997 he analyzes infectious disease dynamics at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). From 2005 onwards he has been heading the research group on modeling infectious disease dynamics.

Long-term impact of human papillomavirus vaccination on infection rates, cervical abnormalities, and cancer incidence

Bogaards JA, Coupé VM, Xiridou M, Meijer CJ, Wallinga J, Berkhof J
Epidemiology  2011 Jul.

Unravelling transmission trees of infectious diseases by combining genetic and epidemiological data

Ypma RJ, Bataille AM, Stegeman A, Koch G, Wallinga J, van Ballegooijen WM
Proc Biol Sci - Epub ahead of print  2011 Jul.

Different transmission patterns in the early stages of the influenza A(H1N1)v pandemic: a comparative analysis of 12 European countries

Flasche S, Hens N, Boëlle PY, Mossong J, van Ballegooijen WM, Nunes B, Rizzo C, Popovici F, Santa-Olalla P, Hrubá F, Parmakova K, Baguelin M, van Hoek AJ, Desenclos JC, Bernillon P, Cámara AL, Wallinga J, Asikainen T, White PJ, Edmunds WJ
Epidemics  2011 Jun.

Nowcasting pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 hospitalizations in the Netherlands

Donker T, van Boven M, van Ballegooijen WM, Van't Klooster TM, Wielders CC, Wallinga J
Eur J Epidemiol  2011 Mar.

Studies needed to address public health challenges of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: insights from modeling

Van Kerkhove MD, Asikainen T, Becker NG, Bjorge S, Desenclos J, dos Santos T, Fraser C, Leung G, Lipsitch M, Longini I, McBryde E, Roth CE, Shay DK, Smith DJ, Wallinga J, White P, Ferguson N, Riley S..
PLoS Med  2010 Jun.

Distribution of vaccine/antivirals and the ‘least spread line’ in a stratified population

Goldstein E, Apolloni A, Lewis B, Miller J, Macauley M, Eubank S, Lipsitch M, Wallinga J
Journal of the Royal Society Interface  2010 May

The ideal reporting interval for an epidemic to objectively interpret the epidemiological time course

Nishiura H, Chowell G, Heesterbeek H, Wallinga J
Journal of the Royal Society Interface  2010 Feb.