The Havelaar Lab works at the interface between food and public health. We use a mix of top-down (epidemiologic) and bottom-up (risk modeling) methods. For more information on these projects associated with these research interests, please visit the project information center. For details on teaching tools and data repository please visit teaching tools & project repository.
Structured Expert Judgement (SEJ) promotes expert elicitation for obtaining and combining expert judgment to quantify uncertainty in unknown quantities. This methodology is used by the Havelaar lab in three ongoing projects. A short video highlighting the concepts of probability and uncertainty surrounding (SEJ) can be seen by clicking on the following link.
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The QMRA course provides students with the principles of modeling of microbial risk assessment in food chains, observational epidemiology, and source attribution related to infectious foodborne diseases. The course will require the implementation in stochastic simulation software (R). With the primary focus on the bottom-up food chain approach and basic principles of top-down approach.
