Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens, M.S., Ph.D.
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Radboud Duintjer Tebbens received his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He conducted his research on both degrees with the Kids Risk Project. His research integrates applied mathematics and public health and focuses on the area of decision analysis for infectious disease risk management, including mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission and sensitivity analysis methods for such dynamic models. He worked on his Master’s thesis with Professor Kimberly Thompson as a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health on a retrospective cost-effectiveness analysis of historic polio vaccination programs in the United States. For his doctoral research and as a post-doctoral research associate, he and Professor Thompson built an extensive dynamic decision analytic model to evaluate the risks, costs, and benefits of global polio risk management strategies after the eradication of wild polioviruses, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization that led to multiple publications. After leaving Harvard, he joined the faculty at Delft University of Technology.

Publications:

Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Thompson KM.  Priority shifting and the dynamics of managing eradicable infectious diseases.  Management Science 2009; 55(4):650-663.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ.  Using system dynamics to develop policies that matter:  Global management of poliomyelitis and beyond.  System Dynamics Review 2008;24(4):433-449.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ. The case for cooperation in managing and maintaining the end of poliomyelitis: Stockpile needs and coordinated OPV cessation. Medscape Journal of Medicine10(8):190 (August 13) Available at: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578396).

Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Pallansch MA, Kew OM, Sutter RW, Aylward RB, Watkins M, Gary H, Alexander J, Jafari H, Cochi SL, Thompson KM. Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of a decision analytic model for post-eradication polio risk management. Risk Analysis 2008;28(4):855-876.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Pallansch MA, Kew OM, Sutter RW, Aylward RB, Watkins M, Gary H, Alexander J, Jafari H, Cochi SL. The risks, costs, and benefits of possible future global policies for managing polioviruses. American Journal of Public Health 2008;98(7):1322-1330.

Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Thompson KM, Huninck M, Mazzuchi TM, Lewandowski D, Kurowicka D, Cooke RM. Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of a dynamic economic evaluation model for vaccination programs. Medical Decision Making 2008;28(2):182-200.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ. Eradication versus control for poliomyelitis: An economic analysis. The Lancet 2007;369(9570):1363-71.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Pallansch MA, Kew OM, Sutter RW, Aylward RB, Watkins M, Gary H, Alexander J, Venczel L, Johnson D, Cáceres VM, Sangrujee N, Jafari H, Cochi SL. Development and consideration of global policies for managing the future risks of poliovirus outbreaks: Insights and lessons learned through modeling. Risk Analysis 2006;26(6):1571-1580.

de Gourville E, Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Sangrujee N, Pallansch MA, Thompson KM. Global surveillance and the value of information: The case of the global polio laboratory network. Risk Analysis 2006;26(6):1557-1569.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Pallansch MA. Evaluation of response scenarios to potential polio outbreaks using mathematical models. Risk Analysis 2006;26(6):1541-1556.

Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Sangrujee N, Thompson KM. The costs of future polio risk management policies. Risk Analysis 2006;26(6):1507-1531.

Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Pallansch MA, Kew OM, Cáceres VM, Jafari H, Cochi SL, Sutter RW, Aylward RB, Thompson KM. Risks of paralytic disease due to wild or vaccine-derived poliovirus after eradication. Risk Analysis 2006;26(6):1471-1505.

Thompson KM, Duintjer Tebbens RJ. Retrospective cost-effectiveness analyses for polio vaccination in the United States. Risk Analysis 2006;26(6):1423-1440.

Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Pallansch MA, Kew OM, Cáceres VM, Sutter RW, Thompson KM. A dynamic model of poliomyelitis outbreaks: Learning from the past to help inform the future. American Journal of Epidemiology 2005;162(4):358-372.

Sangrujee NK, Duintjer Tebbens RJ, Cáceres VM, Thompson KM. Policy decision options during the first five years following certification of polio eradication. Medscape General Medicine 2003(December 19);5(4). (Available at: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/464841).