Thursday, 2 October 2025 | 10:10 - 10:35
Archetypes of pathogens with pandemic potential - Prof. Dr. Niel Hens, University of Hasselt & Antwerp
In this work, Prof. Dr. Niel Hens will review key epidemiological parameters of 19 pathogens with pandemic potential and use an unsupervised clustering approach to group them into six distinct epidemiological archetypes. This framework aims to improve pandemic preparedness by enabling the grouping of emerging pathogens into archetypes with shared characteristics, thus supporting more generalizable control strategies beyond pathogen-specific plans.