Dr Manuela Runge is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University. She received her PhD and MSc in Epidemiology from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. Dr Runge has spent time living in Tanzania working on a School Malaria Parasitaemia Survey , followed by modelling support to the National Malaria Control Programme. The modelling support included the use of modelling for strategic planning by using country data for district-specific impact predictions of malaria control interventions. Dr Runge participated in several stakeholder meetings for the revision of the national malaria control strategic plan in Tanzania. The close collaboration with the Tanzanian program, and recently interactions with the Illinois Department of Public Health provided Dr Runge with insights into local policy and how modelling outputs can be of value in the decision making process. In her current position, Dr Runge works on developing COVID-19 transmission and disease model in Illinois.
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Onyango L, Ouédraogo-Ametchie G, Stahlfeld A, Holden TM, Richter R, Runge M, Toh KB, Agorinya I, Mensah B, Gerardin J. (2026). Building contextually-relevant training programs for scientific development: process and lessons learned in implementing two iterations of a faculty enrichment program in applied malaria modeling. Malaria journal
Diallo OO, Diallo A, Toh KB, Diakité N, Dioubaté M, Runge M, Symons T, Diallo EM, Gerardin J, Galatas B, Camara A. (2025). Subnational tailoring of malaria interventions to prioritize the malaria response in Guinea. Malaria journal, 24(1)
Ozodiegwu ID, Ambrose M, Galatas B, Runge M, Nandi A, Okuneye K, Dhanoa NP, Maikore I, Uhomoibhi P, Bever C, Noor A, Gerardin J. (2023). Application of mathematical modelling to inform national malaria intervention planning in Nigeria. Malaria journal, 22(1)
Runge M, Stahlfeld A, Ambrose M, Toh KB, Rahman S, Omoniwa OF, Bever CA, Oresanya O, Uhomoibhi P, Galatas B, Tibenderana JK, Gerardin J. (2023). Perennial malaria chemoprevention with and without malaria vaccination to reduce malaria burden in young children: a modelling analysis. Malaria journal, 22(1)
Toh KB, Runge M, Richardson RA, Hladish TJ, Gerardin J. (2023). Design of effective outpatient sentinel surveillance for COVID-19 decision-making: a modeling study. BMC infectious diseases, 23(1)
Runge M, Richardson RAK, Clay PA, Bell A, Holden TM, Singam M, Tsuboyama N, Arevalo P, Fornoff J, Patrick S, Ezike NO, Gerardin J. (2022). Modeling robust COVID-19 intensive care unit occupancy thresholds for imposing mitigation to prevent exceeding capacities. PLOS global public health, 2(5)
Ozodiegwu ID, Ambrose M, Battle KE, Bever C, Diallo O, Galatas B, Runge M, Gerardin J. (2021). Beyond national indicators: adapting the Demographic and Health Surveys' sampling strategies and questions to better inform subnational malaria intervention policy. Malaria journal, 20(1)
Holden TM, Richardson RAK, Arevalo P, Duffus WA, Runge M, Whitney E, Wise L, Ezike NO, Patrick S, Cobey S, Gerardin J. (2021). Geographic and demographic heterogeneity of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing in Illinois, USA, March to December 2020. BMC public health, 21(1)
Runge M, Snow RW, Molteni F, Thawer S, Mohamed A, Mandike R, Giorgi E, Macharia PM, Smith TA, Lengeler C, Pothin E. (2020). Simulating the council-specific impact of anti-malaria interventions: A tool to support malaria strategic planning in Tanzania. PloS one, 15(2)
Thawer SG, Chacky F, Runge M, Reaves E, Mandike R, Lazaro S, Mkude S, Rumisha SF, Kumalija C, Lengeler C, Mohamed A, Pothin E, Snow RW, Molteni F. (2020). Sub-national stratification of malaria risk in mainland Tanzania: a simplified assembly of survey and routine data. Malaria journal, 19(1)
Armstrong E, Runge M, Gerardin J. (2020). Identifying the measurements required to estimate rates of COVID-19 transmission, infection, and detection, using variational data assimilation. Infectious Disease Modelling, (6)
Runge M, Molteni F, Mandike R, Snow RW, Lengeler C, Mohamed A, Pothin E. (2020). Applied mathematical modelling to inform national malaria policies, strategies and operations in Tanzania. Malaria journal, 19(1)
Brunner NC, Chacky F, Mandike R, Mohamed A, Runge M, Thawer SG, Ross A, Vounatsou P, Lengeler C, Molteni F, Hetzel MW. (2019). The potential of pregnant women as a sentinel population for malaria surveillance. Malaria journal, 18(1)
Chacky F, Runge M, Rumisha SF, Machafuko P, Chaki P, Massaga JJ, Mohamed A, Pothin E, Molteni F, Snow RW, Lengeler C, Mandike R. (2018). Nationwide school malaria parasitaemia survey in public primary schools, the United Republic of Tanzania. Malaria journal, 17(1)
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