Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases - CHERMID Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and health economic evaluation have become very important topics of research, leading to the incep­tion in 2008 of the Centre for Health Economics and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID). CHERMID has strong historical and current research links to the Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination (CEV) at UA and the Centre for Statistics at Hasselt University . CHERMID forms an entity partially resorting under the CEV within the newly established Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute "VAXINFECTIO", which comprises the CEV, the lab of microbiology, and the lab of experimental hematology. Apart from long term collaborations within VAXINFECTIO, CHERMID’S main multiple year research projects include: "SIMID" , a strategic basic research project funded by the institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT).  Concerted Research Action: "Infectious disease models: wildlife ecology, ecological disturbance and transmission to humans.", a collaboration with the Evolutionary Ecology Group at UA European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC) , a research network funded by the European Centres for Disease Control. Additionally, CHERMID undertakes short term contract research for governmental institutions, which included on many occasions: - Federal Knowledge Centre Health Care Belgium ("KCE") - Federal Agency for Medicinal and Health Products Belgium ("FAGG") - World Health Organization (WHO)