Research focus areas: travellers’ malaria, epidemiology and prevention of travel associated disease, travellers’ vaccines and medications, gender issues in travel medicine, sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, military travel medicine.
Publications include more than 180 peer reviewed papers (h-index 42) and the books “Travelers’ Malaria” (BC Decker 2001, 2nd edition 2008) and “Infectious Diseases – a Geographic Guide” (Wiley 2011, 2nd edition 2017) and the handbook “PDQ -Travelers’ Malaria” (BC Decker 2005). She is the founder of the ISTM Research Committee, a group aiming to increase research in travel medicine. Since 2013, she is at the helm of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (IF 6.211) as Editor-in-Chief.