Aggregated mobility data could help fight COVID-19 Caroline O. Buckee, Satchit Balsari, Jennifer Chan, Mercè Crosas, Francesca Dominici, Urs Gasser, Yonatan H. Grad, Bryan Grenfell, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Marc Lipsitch, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Lauren Ancel Meyers, T. Alex Perkins, Mauricio Santillana, Samuel V. Scarpino, Cecile Viboud, Amy Wesolowski, Andrew Schroeder https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/20/science.abb8021
Defining the Epidemiology of Covid-19 — Studies Needed
Defining the Epidemiology of Covid-19 — Studies Needed Marc Lipsitch, D.Phil., David L. Swerdlow, M.D., and Lyn Finelli, Dr.P.H. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2002125
Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China
Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China Joseph T. Wu, Kathy Leung, Mary Bushman, Nishant Kishore, Rene Niehus, Pablo M. de Salazar, Benjamin J. Cowling, Marc Lipsitch, Gabriel M. Leung https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0822-7
Quantifying bias of COVID-19 prevalence and severity estimates in Wuhan, China that depend on reported cases in international travelers
Quantifying bias of COVID-19 prevalence and severity estimates in Wuhan, China that depend on reported cases in international travelers Rene Niehus, Pablo M De Salazar, Aimee Taylor, Marc Lipsitch https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.13.20022707v2
Using predicted imports of 2019-nCoV cases to determine locations that may not be identifying all imported cases
Using predicted imports of 2019-nCoV cases to determine locations that may not be identifying all imported cases Pablo M De Salazar, Rene Niehus, Aimee Taylor, Caroline O Buckee, Marc Lipsitch https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020495v2
Scenario exploration for SARS-CoV-2 infections
Scenario exploration for SARS-CoV-2 infections Developed by the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Rebecca Kahn, Stephen Kissler, Nishant Kishore and Marc Lipsitch, in collaboration with Health Department colleagues https://rebeccakahn.shinyapps.io/COVID19/
Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing: A flexible, generalizable model for real-time epidemic tracking
Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing: A flexible, generalizable model for real-time epidemic tracking Sarah F. McGough, Michael A. Johansson, Marc Lipsitch, Nicolas A. Menzies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/663823v1
The demand for inpatient and ICU beds for COVID-19 in the US: Lessons from Chinese cities
Authors: Ruoran Li 1; Caitlin Rivers 2; Qi Tan 3,4; Megan B Murray 3; Eric Toner 2; Marc Lipsitch 1 1. Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3. Department of Global Health and…
Join us for a talk by Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay of Sheba Medical Center
Join us for a discussion by Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay, MD, MS in partnership with the Department of Epidemiology’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay is a visiting researcher collaborating with Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of CCDD. She is the Director of the Infection Prevention and Control Unit at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat-Gan, Israel. Event will take place on Tuesday, January 14th from 11:30-1PM…
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Two CCDD Postdocs get Faculty positions
Congratulations to CCDD Postdocs Robyn Lee and Ayesha Mahmud for moving on to the next phase in their career! Robyn will join University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health as Faculty. Ayesha will join UC Berkeley Demography Department as Assistant Professor! Wishing you all the best!