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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39585| Title: | The role of biostatistics in the response to COVID-19: a Belgian and international perspective | Authors: | MOLENBERGHS, Geert | Issue Date: | 2023 | Publisher: | BMC | Source: | Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 12 (1) (Art N° 6) | Abstract: | In this commentary to Dattner et al. (Israel J Health Policy Res. 11:22, 2022), we highlight similarities and differences in the role that biostatistics and biostatisticians have been playing in the COVID-19 response in Belgium and Israel. We bring out implications and opportunities for our field and for science. We argue that biostatistics has an important place in the multidisciplinary COVID-19 response, in terms of research, policy advice, and science and public communication. In Belgium, biostatisticians located in various institutes, collaborated with epidemiologists, vaccinologists, infectiologists, immunologists, social scientists, and government policy makers to provide rapid and science-informed policy advice. Biostatisticians, who can easily be mobilized to work together in pandemic response, also played a role in public communication. | Notes: | Molenberghs, G (corresponding author), Univ Hasselt, BioStat 1, Hasselt, Belgium.; Molenberghs, G (corresponding author), Katholieke Univ Leuven, Hasselt, Belgium. geert.molenberghs@uhasselt.be |
Keywords: | Data availability;Data sharing;Communication;Advisory bodies | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39585 | ISSN: | 2045-4015 | e-ISSN: | 2045-4015 | DOI: | 10.1186/s13584-023-00554-z | ISI #: | 000922525700001 | Rights: | © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativeco mmons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. | Category: | A2 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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