Koen Peeters Grietens

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ID353028
NOMBREKoen Peeters Grietens
NOMBRESKoen Peeters
APELLIDOGrietens
FIRMAGRIETENS K P
AFILIACIONESInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
ORCID0000-0001-6570-9887
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAS5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • ‘We can see a savage’

    Open AccessArsenii Alenichev, Jonathan Shaffer et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2026

    Theorizing the failures of computer vision algorithms requires shifting from detecting and fixing biases towards understanding how algorithms are shaped by social, historical, and political real-world precursors. To better understand the socially embedded and historically rooted representational harms of these algorithms, we analyze how AI image captioning depicts archival images of living ethnological exibitions (so-called 'human zoos'), mass st…

  • “Miss, I want itchy medicine”

    Open AccessSoe Yu Naing, Mira Leonie Schneiders et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Antibiotic use is shaped by access, knowledge, norms, and practices, yet remains poorly understood in many community settings worldwide. To address these gaps, we investigated community antibiotic use in six villages across Sukoharjo, Karanganyar, and Klaten districts of Central Java province in Indonesia. This study focused on three key questions: (i) which antibiotics are accessible in community settings; (ii) how do community members recognize…

  • Inadequate last-mile pharmaceutical waste management is a neglected threat to environmental and public health

    Open AccessRaffaella Ravinetto, Jennie Lates et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Last-mile pharmaceutical waste is generated at the level of the community, healthcare facilities, pharmaceutical outlets and markets, and animal husbandry

  • Navigating health system constraints and risks for childbirth care in rural Guinea

    Open AccessBienvenu Salim Camara, Bregje De Kok et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2025

    Women with reproductive desires and needs face various health system constraints in the Global South. Certain biomedical practices, such as C-section, are also perceived by women as risky. In this paper, we explore how women in one of the Susu villages in western Guinea use their agency to navigate health system-related constraints and risks. This was a twelve-month ethnography using focus group discussions, individual in-depth interviews, inform…

  • The elephant in the room

    Open AccessArsenii Alenichev, Patricia Kingori et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

  • Assembling a global health image

    Open AccessArsenii Alenichev, Sonya De Laat et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Background Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote ethicality of visual practices. However, despite this focus on the history and the institutional use of global health images, little is known about how in practice contemporary images are created in communities, and how consent to be in photographs is o…

  • Use of antimicrobials and other medical products in an ethnic minority context of South-Central Vietnam

    Open AccessMaya Ronse, Thuan Thi Nguyen et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Despite the global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), evidence on the use and quality of medicines at community level is limited, particularly in impoverished, rural areas where prevalence of (bacterial) infections is high. To better understand the processes that drive vulnerability to AMR’ effects, this study aimed to assess social factors underpinning access to–and use of–medical products and healthcare, among people from the Raglai ethn…

  • Evidence uptake is only part of the process

    Open AccessVarunika Ruwanpura, Koen Peeters Grietens et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Health policy processes should be evidence-informed, transparent and timely, but these processes are often unclear to stakeholders outside the immediate policymaking environment. We spoke to 36 international malaria stakeholders to gain insights on the processes involved in the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Programme’s recommendations for their treatment guidelines of P . vivax malaria. Four key themes which drew on the 3i policy fra…

  • Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation

    Open AccessArsenii Alenichev, Koen Peeters Grietens et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    Global health photography has historically been commissioned and, therefore, dominated by the gaze of Western photographers on assignments in the Global South. This is changing as part of international calls to decolonise global health and stimulate 'empowerment', spawning a growing initiative to hire local photographers. This article, based on interviews with global health photographers, reflects on this paradigm shift. It highlights how behind …

  • From risk factors to disease situations

    Open AccessClaudia Nieto-Sanchez, Stefanie Den et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Referencias: 32

    The goal of this qualitative research study, part of an interdisciplinary project, was to understand the overlapping geographical distribution of COVID-19 and tuberculosis burden in Lima. Using an ethnographic approach, we applied the concept of disease situations to explore how inhabitants' social and spatial situatedness affected their capacity to respond to the pandemic. Our results show that for some populations in Lima, the risk to develop C…

  • Vaccins imparfaits

    Open AccessJanice Graham, Koen Peeters GrietensARTICLEAnthropologica2024Referencias: 76

    Si aucun vaccin ne peut offrir une protection totale, un haut niveau de réglementation en matière de sécurité, d'efficacité et de qualité est fondamental pour la confiance du public et l'adoption des vaccins en tant qu'outils essentiels de la santé publique mondiale. Cet article traite d'une préoccupation croissante au sujet des vaccins sous-optimaux « imparfaits » qui menacent les interventions d'urgence en cas de pandémie, ainsi que les program…

  • Leaky Vaccines

    Open AccessJanice Graham, Koen Peeters GrietensARTICLEAnthropologica2024Referencias: 76

    While no vaccine can provide 100 percent protection, a high standard of regulatory safety, efficacy and quality is essential for public trust and the uptake of vaccines as essential global public health tools. This article addresses a growing concern that suboptimal "leaky" vaccines threaten emergency response to pandemics as well as routine public health programs. Agile regulatory standards now advance earlier approval of vaccines and therapeuti…

  • Embracing context

    Open AccessToTran Nguyen, D Kertész et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Dialogue with people who are vaccine hesitant has been recommended as a method to increase vaccination uptake. The process of cultivating dialogue is shaped by the context in which it occurs, yet the development of interventions addressing vaccine hesitancy with dialogue often overlooks the role of context and favors relatively fixed solutions. This reflexive paper shares three key lessons related to context for dialogue-based interventions. Thes…

  • Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally

    Open AccessPatricia Kingori, Koen Peeters Grietens et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • Why Communities Participate in Malaria Elimination Projects

    Open AccessYoriko Masunaga, Joan Muela Ribera et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2023

    The importance of community participation in malaria elimination efforts has been trumpeted in various studies; however, the reasons why communities participate are often under examined. We explored the underlying socio-cultural environment of marginalized communities in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to ascertain why these groups participate in a malaria elimination project, through 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including in-depth interviews…

  • More than one crisis

    Open AccessTarun Kattumana, Leonardo Heyerdahl et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted societies globally. Public health institutions were tasked with responding to the pandemic in a dynamic and uncertain context. This paper sheds light on the experiences of COVID-19 response actors as they navigated multi-dimensional crises associated with the pandemic in general and vaccine hesitancy in particular. This research was conducted during the initial phase of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Flanders,…

  • Parallel vaccine discourses in Guinea

    Open AccessLeonardo Heyerdahl, F Le Marcis et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2023

    Misinformation has been identified as a major threat to public confidence in vaccines, particularly during epidemics. As a response, social listening has become a popular and heuristic public health tool for detecting misinformation and adapting vaccine communication. In this article, we take a critical stance on the normalised approach to social listening which solely relies on the analysis of online discourses. We highlight that the current soc…

  • Drawings as tools to (re)imagine space in interdisciplinary global health research

    Open AccessStefanie Den, Stefanie Dens et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Understanding the role of space in infectious diseases' dynamics in urban contexts is key to developing effective mitigation strategies. Urbanism, a discipline that both studies and acts upon the city, commonly uses drawings to analyze spatial patterns and their variables. This paper revisits drawings as analytical and integrative tools for interdisciplinary research. We introduce the use of drawings in two interdisciplinary projects conducted in…

  • Misdirection – Magic, Psychology and its Application

    Open AccessGustav Kuhn, Patricia Kingori et al.ARTICLEScience & Technology Studies2022

    The art of magic relies on deception and illusions to create human experiences that appear impossible. Misdirection lies at the heart of this deceptive art, and yet there is little consensus as to what this concept aims to describe. The concept of misdirection is not limited to magic, and its principles are applied to wide aspects of our lives (e.g., politics, public health, marketing). In recent years, scientists have started to examine the psyc…

  • Misdirection in Global Health

    Open AccessKoen Peeters Grietens, Patricia Kingori et al.ARTICLEScience & Technology Studies2022

  • Beyond eves and cracks

    Open AccessClaudia Nieto-Sanchez, Stefanie Dens et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    During the past century, the global trend of reduced malaria transmission has been concurrent with increasing urbanization. Although urbanization has traditionally been considered beneficial for vector control, the adaptation of malaria vectors to urban environments has created concerns among scientific communities and national vector control programs. Since urbanization rates in Ethiopia are among the highest in the world, the Ethiopian governme…

  • Doing ‘reciprocity work’

    Open AccessAlexandra Fehr, Claudia Nieto-Sanchez et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    In their roles as nurses, data collectors, or other, fieldworkers undertake myriad tasks working intimately with and on the bodies of others - a type of work called 'body work'. This work further includes the micro-political relations shaping these interactions, and studies have shown the importance of these relationships in the success of clinical trials, particularly in the Gambia. This study seeks to expand the concept of body work to understa…

  • There Were Moments We Wished She Could Just Die

    Open AccessJulia Irani, Joseph Rujumba et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2022Referencias: 42

    Nodding Syndrome (NS) occurs within a wide spectrum of epilepsies seen in onchocerciasis endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. It has debilitating consequences on affected individuals and increases the socio-economic, physical and psychological burden on care-givers and their households, diminishing their standing within the community. Social science research on the disproportionate burden of the disease on females is limited. Based on ethnographi…

  • Intra-household Variation in Pathways to Care for Epilepsy and Mental Disorders in Eastern Uganda

    Open AccessNandini D P Sarkar, Nandini Sarkar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Integrating mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) health care into the public health system has become a global priority, with mental health, and well-being now being part of the Sustainable Development Goals. In the aim to provide good quality care for MNS disorders, understanding patients' pathways to care is key. This qualitative study explores the pathways to care of patients attending an outpatient mental health clinic of a district …

  • Understanding Malaria Persistence

    Open AccessThuan Thi Nguyen, Charlotte Gryseels et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Despite the scale-up of vector control, diagnosis and treatment, and health information campaigns, malaria persists in the forested areas of South-Central Vietnam, home to ethnic minority populations. A mixed-methods study using an exploratory sequential design was conducted in 10 Ra-glai villages in Bac Ai district of Ninh Thuan province to examine which social factors limited the effectiveness of the national malaria elimination strategy in the…