Infectious Disease Dynamics in
Global Health

The Infectious Disease Dynamics group at the Charité Centre for Global Health investigates disease burden, transmission patterns and ecological interactions to design effective control strategies.

Understanding Dynamics

Understanding the underlying ecological and transmission dynamics is often key to the design of effective control strategies for infectious disease. The IDD lab at Charité Center for Global Health connects an interdisciplinary group of experts in mathematical modelling, statistics, clinical trials, and policy.

We work in close connection with other centres and international collaborators to increase our understanding of disease dynamics and thereby disease prevention. We also host the secretariat to the Berlin Infectious Disease Dynamics Expertise network (B-IDDE) and the Pneumococcal and Pneumonia INterest Group (PING)

Research Foci

RSV

Immunisation

Evaluating the optimal immunisation strategies for RSV, Pneumococci, Polio and others.

AI

Outbreak Analytics

Exploring advanced analytical methods and LLMs for enhanced outbreak response.

Climate Change

Climate & Evolution

Evaluating changing disease risk and prevention strategies due to climate change and / or pathogen interaction.

Our Team

Stefan Flasche

Prof. Stefan Flasche

Group Leader

Professor for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Global Health.

David Hodgson

Dr. David Hodgson

Research Associate

Billy John Quilty

Dr. Billy John Quilty

Research Associate

Matej Kriznar

Matej Kriznar

Researcher

Augustine Masinde

Augustine Masinde

PhD Student

Kaige Dong

Kaige Dong

PhD Student

Dexin Gong

Dexin Gong

PhD Student

Lukas Hemmers-Pauly

Lukas Hemmers-Pauly

PhD Student

Lucy Mbone Ingaiza

Lucy Mbone Ingaiza

PhD Student

Rebecca Sophia Lais

Rebecca Sophia Lais

PhD Student

Julia Mayer

Julia Stéphanie Mayer

PhD Student

Hugo Soubrier

Hugo Soubrier

PhD Student

Adriana Torres

Adriana Torres

PhD Student

Hendrik Oye

Hendrik Oye

Project Management

Michael Briga

Dr. Michael Briga

Guest Researcher

Ayaka Monoi

Ayaka Monoi

Guest Researcher

Open Science

We are committed to transparent and reproducible research. Explore our open-source tools and data analysis pipelines on GitHub.

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Latest News & Highlights

RSV Vaccination Study
January 20, 2026

Maternal RSV Vaccination in South Africa

Ayaka Monoi and Stefan Flasche publish a modelling study in PLoS Medicine evaluating the benefits and risks of maternal RSV vaccination on mortality.

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Japan RSV Study
November 15, 2025

Seasonal Timing of RSV Immunisation in Japan

David Hodgson's study on optimal seasonal timing for infant immunisation to prevent RSV hospitalisations in Japan is now available as a preprint.

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July 10, 2025

Welcome to the Team

We welcome our new PhD candidates who will be focusing on pneumococcal transmission models in the forthcoming academic year.

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June 22, 2025

B-IDDE Network Expands

The Berlin Infectious Disease Dynamics Expertise network has now grown to include 5 new participating institutions.

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May 05, 2025

Workshop on Data Integration

Our recent workshop on integrating clinical trial data into dynamic transmission models was a great success with over 100 participants.

Global Collaborations

Highlighting our international network and joint publications worldwide.