Caroline Bulstra

Biography

Dr. Caroline Bulstra's research at the Health Systems Innovation Lab focuses on optimizing healthcare delivery for chronic diseases. She earned her PhD at Erasmus MC, applying geospatial modeling to optimise prevention and control strategies for HIV, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases. Caroline leads the "Global Health Systems and Planetary Health" group at the Heidelberg Institute for Global Health and has consulted for UN organizations, including the World Bank, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization. She holds degrees in Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology from Utrecht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Education and Training

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM),
  Utrecht University
• MSc Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
  Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Epidemiology and Global Health
  Erasmus University Rotterdam

Awards and Honors

• Rubicon Fellowship, 2023 - 2024
  Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Publications

• Trends in body mass index for people with and without HIV: Pooled analysis of nationally-representative health surveys from 10 countries and 173,800 adults in Africa.

  Carrillo-Larco RM, Bulstra CA, Manne-Goehler J, Siedner MJ, Johnson LCM, Marconi VC, Chung MH, Francois Venter WD, Kocher E, Lalla-Edward S, Chandiwana NC, Kariuki JK, Ali MK. PLOS Glob Public Health 2024

• COVID-19 antibody responses in individuals with natural immunity and with vaccination-induced immunity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  Zhang Q, Jiao L, Chen Q, Bulstra CA, Geldsetzer P, de Oliveira T, Yang J, Wang C, Bärnighausen T, Chen S. Syst Rev 2024 Jul 19

• A Comparison of Markov and Mechanistic Models for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Prevalence Projections in the Context of Survey Design.

  Eyre MT, Bulstra CA, Johnson O, de Vlas SJ, Diggle PJ, Fronterrè C, Coffeng LE. Clin Infect Dis 2024 Apr 25

• Enhancing global access to diabetes medicines: policy lessons from the HIV response.

  Teufel F, Bulstra CA, Davies JI, Ali MK. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2024

• The effect of malaria on childhood anemia in a quasi-experimental study of 7,384 twins from 23 Sub-Saharan African countries.

  Starck T, Dambach P, Rouamba T, Tinto H, Osier F, Oldenburg CE, Adam M, Bärnighausen T, Jaenisch T, Bulstra CA. Front Public Health 2024