Thalea Tamminga
Brussels
Summary
Experienced public health professional with a proven track record of successful coordination and management of various kinds of projects, such as national surveillances and research projects, including liaison and engagement of various project partners and stakeholders, both nationally and internationally, to achieve common goals. Strong focus on team collaboration and delivering results. Highly skilled in planning, scheduling, executing timelines and budget management. Reliable and adaptable, ready to meet changing project needs and ensure successful outcomes.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Scientific Collaborator
Sciensano
10.2024 - Current
- Successful and effective coordination and management of the Belgian national surveillances 'Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections (NSIH-SSI)' and 'Surveillance of ICU-acquired Infections (NSIH-ICU)' within the department of 'Healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance', including the active engagement of all relevant stakeholders.
- Serve as a focal point for both surveillances for hospitals, the steering committee, national stakeholders as well as the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and other stakeholders.
- Self-motivated elaboration on the national surveillance protocols; including changing some of the definitions and indicators to improve data analysis and facilitate data collection for participating hospitals.
- Effective collection, processing, integration and analysis of annual surveillance data and drawing up individual feedback reports for the hospitals.
- Serve as an expert advisor on surveillance to the Belgian Superior Health Council ('Conseil Supérieur de la Santé'), including the successful preparation of the chapter on surveillance on surgical site infections in Belgium for their latest national guidelines.
Researcher & Project Coordinator
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel (UKSH)
01.2022 - 09.2024
- Project Overview: NAPKON is a German nationwide research project that uses patient data (clinical data, image data, bio-samples) of all degrees of severity and manifestations to map the acute and long-term COVID-19 disease (Post-COVID syndrome). The COVIDOM sub-project is a population-based longitudinal study on the sequelae of COVID-19 disease
- Successful project coordination of the COVIDOM study, including the collaboration in interdisciplinary teams within the NAPKON consortium (20 university clinics in Germany participate) during conference calls to coordinate study activities and study progress.
- Reporting of the project progress to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, including milestones and deliverables.
- The successful development of case definitions to determine follow-up of patients as either cases or controls.
- The successful recalculation of the post-COVID score that was developed by our team in STATA and SPSS to help doctors to clinically determine the severity of the post-COVID syndrome in order to facilitate treatment.
Public Health Consultant
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
03.2020 - 11.2021
- The Robert Koch-Institute is Germany's national public health institute (as the CDC in the US).
- Contracted by RKI to serve as a Liaison Officer in Rwanda to coordinate and facilitate activities for different Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) projects in collaboration with the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC).
- Successful facilitation of the design and conduct of a Knowledge Attitudes and Practices (KAP) survey on IPC for emerging infections focusing on COVID-19 and EVD, incl. write-up of study protocol, design of questionnaire, conduct of pilot-study, supervision of the interviews and data analysis.
- Successful support of the Rwandan National Reference Laboratory (NRL) in the acquisition of COVID-19 testing material.
- Effective follow-up and organizational support of the construction of the temporary isolation units in Kanombe and Kibirizi build in conjunction with RKI, RBC and the architects of Braunschweig (University (Germany), including interim and final inspections of construction sites for documentation for the German project partners.
Project Coordinator & Researcher
Robert Koch Institute, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Unit HIV/AIDS, STI & Blood Borne Infections
06.2017 - 10.2019
- Company Overview: The Robert Koch-Institute is Germany's national public health institute.
- Coordination and management of the German Gonococcal Resistance Network (GORENET) to integrate and facilitate high quality antimicrobial resistance testing for N.gonorrhoea in laboratories throughout Germany.
- Efficient coordination of GORENET's research activities incl. high quality data collection, data management and analysis.
- Successful data analysis on the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) situation in Germany, incl. conference poster presentation at ISSTDR conference in Vancouver and development of a manuscript on the trends of AMR in N.gonorrhea in Germany.
- Successful annual preparation and submission of GORENETs data sets to the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP) commissioned by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
- Data management: successful development of the data management SOP, data cleaning & plausibility checks, merging data sets, supervision of medical documentation and data entry.
- Efficient write-up of project reports to the German Ministry of Health, incl. milestones and deliverables reporting.
- Biggest Success: the initiation of a scientific collaboration for AMR monitoring in N.gonorrhea between the RKI, RBC and the NIgeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with the outcome of a successful grant proposal.
Hepatitis Program Associate
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
01.2016 - 05.2017
- Assist the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) staff in the development of a long-term national strategic plan for the management and prevention of hepatitis B and C.
- Creation of a detailed situation analysis according to WHO recommendations on the Rwandan hepatitis B and C program as the basis for a long-term strategic plan for hepatitis B and C in correspondence with RBC staff.
- Assemble information on and develop hepatitis B and C Monitoring & Evaluation indicators documentation and reporting with the goal to develop a hepatitis B and C register together with RBC staff.
- Planning of incidence study together with WHO Rwanda to support formulation of programmatic objectives, goals and targets within the considerations of a national elimination plan.
- Support RBC training activities for hepatitis B and C of the Rwandan health care workforce (Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists).
- Support RBC activities such as Hepatitis B vaccination campaigns & World Hepatitis Day celebrations.
- The development of a situation analysis of Hepatis B and C in Rwanda to be used as basis to establish a National Elimination Plan.
Project Manager
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Dept. Infectious Disease Epidemiology
10.2011 - 12.2015
- Successfully managed a variety of epidemiological and biomedical studies on malaria, salmonella and other febrile infections simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Successful GIS-buffer calculations for malaria incidence in Ghana.
- Successful reporting of project progress to donors, including reporting milestones and deliverables.
- Successful creation of study related documents (study protocols, SOPs, etc.).
- Participation in frequent field missions to African partners (Ghana, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Uganda) for partner meetings, research site visits and budget management.
Education
MASTER OF SCIENCE - CLINICAL RESEARCH
University of Liverpool
04.2015
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH
Maastricht University
07.2011
STATE EXAMINED PHYSIOTHERAPIST - THERAPY AND REHABILITATION
Reha-Akademie Berlin
Berlin, Germany08.2008
Skills
- Infectious Disease epidemiology and infection prevention and control
- Outbreak Investigation
- Preparing presentations, reports, guidelines and other official documents
- English (excellent) and French (intermediate)
- Respectful and friendly teamwork and collaboration, especially in an intercultural and interdisciplinary environment
- Excellent liaison skills with a variety of different stakeholders
- Problem-solving
- Advanced skills in MS Office: excel, word, powerpoint, outlook and OneNote
- Excellent skills in STATA and intermediate skills in SPSS
Phone Number
Mobile, (+32) 472765278
Publications
- Markedly decreasing azithromycin susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Germany, 2014 to 2021, Selb R., Buder S., Dudareva S., Tamminga T., Bremer V., Banhard S., Heuer D., Jansen K., Euro Surveillance, 26, 31, 2021, https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.31.2100616
- Did minimum inhibitory concentrations in N. gonorrhoeae isolates change in Germany since 2014?, Tamminga T., Buder S., Dudareva S., Zuelsdorf G., Banhart S., Pilz T., Dehmel K., Guhl E., Graeber I., Kohl P.K., Bremer V., Heuer D., Jansen K., STI & HIV 2019 World Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019
- Molecular epidemiological typing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates identifies a novel association between genogroup G10557 (G7072) and decreased susceptibility to cefixime, Germany, 2014 to 2017, Banhart, S., Jansen, K., Buder, S., Tamminga, T., Calvignac-Spencer, S., Pilz, T., Martini, A., Dudareva, S., Nikisins, S., Dehmel, K., Zuelsdorf, G., Guhl, E., Graeber, I., Kohl, P. K., Unemo, M., Bremer, V., Heuer, D., & GORENET study group, Euro surveillance, 25, 41, 2020, https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.41.1900648
- External quality assessment (EQA) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility testing in primary laboratories in Germany, Selb, R., Jansen, K., Eckardt, M., Tamminga, T., Dudareva, S., Gassowski, M., Graeber, I., Guhl, E., Heuer, D., Buder, S., & GORENET EQA study group, BMC infectious diseases, 20, 1, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05234-w
- The usefulness of C-reactive protein in predicting malaria parasitemia in a sub-Saharan African region, Sarfo, B. O., Hahn, A., Schwarz, N. G., Jaeger, A., Sarpong, N., Marks, F., Adu-Sarkodie, Y., Tamminga, T., & May, J., PloS one, 13, 8, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201693
Hobbies
Rowing
Endurance and strength training
Arts: painting and pencil drawing
Going on excursions with my family
Timeline
Scientific Collaborator
Sciensano
10.2024 - Current
Researcher & Project Coordinator
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel (UKSH)
01.2022 - 09.2024
Public Health Consultant
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
03.2020 - 11.2021
Project Coordinator & Researcher
Robert Koch Institute, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Unit HIV/AIDS, STI & Blood Borne Infections
06.2017 - 10.2019
Hepatitis Program Associate
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
01.2016 - 05.2017
Project Manager
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Dept. Infectious Disease Epidemiology
10.2011 - 12.2015
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH
Maastricht University
MASTER OF SCIENCE - CLINICAL RESEARCH
University of Liverpool
STATE EXAMINED PHYSIOTHERAPIST - THERAPY AND REHABILITATION
Reha-Akademie Berlin
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