Koen Pouwels
Phd
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Koen joined Oxford Population Health's Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) as a senior researcher in January 2019.
His current work focuses on infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance modelling, randomised trial designs, economic evaluations alongside trials, incorporating long-term effects into economic evaluations, and statistical approaches to address time-dependent confounding in burden of illness studies.
His work has directly informed national COVID-19 mitigation and testing strategies, vaccination policies against various infectious diseases, as well as national targets for antibiotic prescribing in primary care.
Prior to joining HERC, Koen worked at Public Health England on projects using mathematical, statistical and machine learning approaches to understand and predict the development and health-economic impact of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance.
Before coming to the UK, he obtained his PhD in epidemiology at the University of Groningen where he was also involved in a number of economic evaluations of vaccinations against infectious diseases.
Recent publications
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Uncertainty Quantification in Cost-effectiveness Analysis for Stochastic-based Infectious Disease Models: Insights from Surveillance on Lymphatic Filariasis.
Journal article
Antony Oliver MC. et al, (2025), J Theor Biol
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Identification of undetected SARS-CoV-2 infections by clustering of Nucleocapsid antibody trajectories.
Journal article
Zwerwer LR. et al, (2025), Nat Commun, 16
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Knowledge and practice of healthy behaviors for dementia and stroke prevention in a United States cohort.
Journal article
Senff JR. et al, (2025), Sci Rep, 15
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Health-related quality of life with herpes zoster: systematic review and analysis of individual patient data from 9 cohorts
Preprint
Ku C-C. et al, (2025)
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Health impact and economic evaluation of the Expanded Program on Immunization in China from 1974 to 2024: a modelling study.
Journal article
Wang C. et al, (2025), Lancet Public Health