I am a medical doctor, epidemiologist and consultant in Public Health, born in the Netherlands. Being mostly interested in prevention, I started my education doing a degree in health sciences. I then trained to become a doctor, and after a couple of years clinical and some epidemiological work experience had the opportunity to do an EPIET fellowship in Cardiff, Wales. This really raised my passion for infectious disease epidemiology, after which I trained to become a consultant in Public Health in London, England. During this period I spent most of my time working for the PHLS/CDSC (Public Health Laboratory Service for England and Wales, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre) in Colindale, London. There I had the pleasure to meet Professor Noah, my predecessor as Editor-in-Chief for Epidemiology & Infection. Upon completion of my training, I returned to the Netherlands, where I have been working at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) to date. I specialised in vaccine preventable diseases, whereby completing a PhD on the epidemiology and control of hepatitis B with Utrecht University. Together with Paddy Farrington and Kaatje Bollaerts I recently published a book on the epidemiology of vaccination programmes, which I am very pleased to say is now available free of charge online.
My involvement with Epidemiology & Infection started in 2005, when I co-authored a paper on bacterial infections in injecting drug users. This was the result of a fascinating project I did at CDSC investigating a tetanus outbreak in injecting drug users. I continue to use this experience as an example of the importance of astute physicians and how epidemiology can contribute to primary and secondary prevention. I later became an associate editor (AE) for Epidemiology & Infection in 2007, a role I continued for several years. During this time I really got to know Professor Noah, the journal, its AEs and Editorial Board (EB) members much better. It was a great learning experience, seeing so many manuscripts and reviews and having to take decisions on them. I am really honoured to now take up the role of Editor-in-Chief for a journal which has been documenting the evidence base for infectious disease control for nearly 125 years!
How would you describe the journal’s scope?
Epidemiology & Infection is dedicated to diverse aspects of infection, whereby the focus is on the epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases.
What are your aims and objectives for the journal?
Starting as the new Editor-in-Chief I will work with the Deputy Editor, the team of Associated Editors, the Editorial Board members and the Publisher to make sure our journal is at the forefront of the current practice of infectious disease epidemiology world-wide, and that it becomes the ‘go-to journal’ for this area of work. My other equally important aim is to maintain excellent scientific quality and scientific relevance of the journal.
Why should people submit to Epidemiology & Infection?
It is a very distinguished journal with an excellent track record spanning nearly 125 years! It is dedicated to contributing to the ultimate aim of evidence based infectious disease control, with a broad scope, a global reach and high impact factor (4.2). It is fully open access, which I think is very important so everybody can benefit from the evidence published. Mostly, I always consider Epidemiology & Infection a ‘friendly’ journal, which still welcomes good ‘bread and butter’ epidemiological investigations and research, whilst at the same time welcoming manuscripts on a wide variety of infectious disease and methodological topics from all over the world.
We would like to thank Dr. Hahné for the thought-provoking and illuminating answers to our questions.
We would also like to thank our previous Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Norman Noah, for his contribution to the success of the journal to date.
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