Rob van Hest Capture-recapture Methods in Surveillance - RePub ...

Acknowledgements
prisoners in London, a huge capture-recapture study on tuberculosis incidence in
England, an editorial in the BMJ, a few “quick ones“ and last orders and numerous of the
weirdest moments of my life. I would like to thank Alistair and Melissa for all the roasted
potatoes, carrots, parsnips, Brussels sprouts and other un-Continental foodstuff from the
traditional English cuisine, the regular Indian and Thai lamb curries and the many weeks
of hospitality in Berkhamsted over the past five years.
I thank Gerard de Vries and Hennie Baars, colleague tuberculosis control
physicians in the Tuberculosis Control Section of the Municipal Public Health Service
Rotterdam-Rijnmond, for their help in preparing some of the studies in this thesis and
other international and national publications.
I thank Dick van Soolingen, Petra de Haas, Kristin Kreemer, Tridia van der
Laan, Anne-Marie van der Brandt and Mimount Enaimie from the National Mycobacteria
Reference Unit at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment in
Bilthoven for their hospitality and assistance when performing the record-linkage and
cross-validation of the Dutch tuberculosis registers and the always pleasant atmosphere.
I thank John Watson, Delphine Antoine, David Quinn, Charlotte Anderson,
Clare French and Jonathan Crofts from the Tuberculosis Section at the Centre for
Infections of the Health Protection Agency in London for their assistance, advice and
hospitality while performing the capture-recapture study on tuberculosis incidence in
England and various good discussions in the Holly Bush public house. A special thanks
goes to Andrew Grant from the Statistics, Modelling and Bioinformatics Department at
the Centre for Infections for his indispensable statistical support and interest in the
capture-recapture methodology which has also initiated ideas for other papers.
I thank Nico Kalisvaart of the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in the Hague
for performing the record-linkage with the Netherlands Tuberculosis Register for me,
essential to the solution of the Dutch tuberculosis capture-recapture problem.
I thank professor Nico Nagelkerke of the United Arab Emirates University and
professor Jeroen Vermunt of the University of Tilburg for providing me with the solution
to the capture-recapture problems in the studies on tuberculosis and Legionnaires’ disease
incidence in the Netherlands respectively.
I thank all the other co-authors of the chapters in this thesis for their
contribution and I hope it may lead to further collaboration in the future.
I thank Len Munnik for making the beautiful and fitting drawing on the cover
and Selma Nieukoop and Diane Seinstra for helping with the lay-out.
I thank the Department of Infectious Disease Control of the Municipal Public
Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond for granting me some time and funds to perform the
work for this PhD thesis. I would like to thank all my colleagues in the Tuberculosis
Control Section for their patience with me in times when my mood obviously reflected
the progress of some of the studies.
Finally I thank Gerard de Vries and Bert Mulder for their willingness to be my
ushers and their help in preparing all the ceremonial and unceremonious activities.
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