Wim Delva, PhD

Research Associate

Wim is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, he has joint research appointment at the International Centre for Reproductive Health at Ghent University in Belgium, and the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is passionate about applied statistics and epidemiology related to the HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8054-1904

Recent publications

Inferring HIV transmission network determinants using agent-based models calibrated to multi-data sources
Niyukuri D, Chibawara T, Nyasulu PS, Delva W

MC Pregnancy & Childbirth

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.3390/math9212645
Influence of sexual risk behaviour and STI co-infection dynamics on the evolution of HIV set point viral load in MSM
Hendrickx DM, Delva W, Hens N

Epidemics

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100474
Four-week forecasts of COVID-19 epidemic trajectories in South Africa, Chile, Peru and Brazil: a model evaluation
Delva W, Dominic EM, Beauclair RN, Ouifki R, Kroon M, Volmink H, Dorkin E

medRxiv

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.06.21263151
Comparison of two simulators for individual based models in HIV epidemiology in a population with HSV 2 in Yaoundé (Cameroon)
Hendrickx DM, Sousa JD, Libin PJK, Delva W, Liesenborgs J, Hens N, Müller V, van Damme A

Scientific Reports

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94289-z
Assessing the uncertainty around age-mixing patterns in HIV transmission inferred from phylogenetic trees
Niyukuri D, Nyasulu PS, Delva W

PLoS One

(2021)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249013
Early access to antiretroviral therapy versus standard of care among HIV-positive participants in Eswatini in the public health sector: the MaxART stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial
Khan S, Donna S, Walsh F, Mazibuko S, Pasipamire M, Chai B, Reis R, Mlambo K, Delva W, Khumalo G, Zwane M, Fleming Y, Mafara E, Hettema A, Lejeune C, Chao A, Bärnighausen T, Okello V

Journal of the International AIDS Society

(2020)

https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25610
Mortality under early access to antiretroviral therapy vs. Eswatini’s national standard of care: the MaxART clustered randomized stepped wedge trial
Chao A, Spiegelman D, Khan S, Walsh F, Mazibuko S, Pasipamire M, Chai B, Reis R, Mlambo K, Delva W, Khumalo G, Zwane M, Fleming Y, Mafara E, Hettema A, Lejeune C, Bärnighausen T, Okello V

HIV Medicine

(2020)

https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12876
Calibration of individual-based models to epidemiological data: a systematic review
Hazelbag CM, Dushoff J, Dominic EM, Mthombothi ZE, Delva W

PLoS Computational Biology

(2020)

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007893
SimpactCyan 1.0: an open-source simulator for individual-based models in HIV epidemiology with R and Python interfaces
Liesenborgs J, Hendrickx DM, Kuylen E, Niyukuri D, Hens N, Delva W

Scientific Reports

(2019)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55689-4
Drivers of vaccine decision-making in South Africa: a discrete choice experiment
Verelst F, Delva W, Beutels P, Willem L

Vaccine

(2019)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.02.056