Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Visualizing Neighborhood COVID-19 Levels, Trends, and Inequities in Wastewater: An Equity-Centered Approach and Comparison to CDC Methods.

Author(s): Cowger TL, Link NB, Hart JD, Sharp MT, Nair S, Balasubramanian R, Moallef S, Chen J, Hanage WP, Tabb LP, Hall KT, O Ojikutu B, Krieger N, Bassett MTJournal: J Public Health Manag PractPMID: 39254302 September 2024

Monitoring neighborhood-level SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations can help guide public health interventions and provide early warning ahead of lagging COVID-19 clinical…

Prediction of post-PCV13 pneumococcal evolution using invasive disease data enhanced by inverse-invasiveness weighting.

Author(s): Qiu X, McGee L, Hammitt L, Grant LR, O'Brien KL, Hanage WP, Lipsitch MJournal: MBioPMID: 39207103 August 2024

After introducing pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs), serotype replacement occurred in . Predicting which pneumococcal strains will become common in carriage…

Sink-traps are a major source for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae transmission.

Author(s): Regev-Yochay G, Margalit I, Smollan G, Rapaport R, Tal I, Hanage WP, Pinas Zade N, Jaber H, Taylor BP, Che Y, Rahav G, Zimlichman E, Keller NJournal: Infect Control Hosp EpidemiolPMID: 38149351 March 2024

We studied the extent of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) sink contamination and transmission to patients in a nonoutbreak setting.

Quantitatively assessing early detection strategies for mitigating COVID-19 and future pandemics.

Author(s): Liu AB, Lee D, Jalihal AP, Hanage WP, Springer MJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 38123536 December 2023

Researchers and policymakers have proposed systems to detect novel pathogens earlier than existing surveillance systems by monitoring samples from hospital…

Successful treatment of SARS-CoV-2 in an immunocompromised patient with persistent infection for 245 days: A case report.

Author(s): Overbeck V, Taylor BP, Turcinovic J, Qiu X, Schaeffer B, Seitz S, Curry SR, Hanage WP, Connor JH, Kuppalli KJournal: HeliyonPMID: 38223743 December 2023

Immunocompromised patients receiving B-cell-depleting therapies are at increased risk of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection, with many experiencing fatal outcomes. We report…

Inferring bacterial transmission dynamics using deep sequencing genomic surveillance data.

Author(s): Senghore M, Read H, Oza P, Johnson S, Passarelli-Araujo H, Taylor BP, Ashley S, Grey A, Callendrello A, Lee R, Goddard MR, Lumley T, Hanage WP, Wiles SJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 37907520 October 2023

Identifying and interrupting transmission chains is important for controlling infectious diseases. One way to identify transmission pairs - two hosts…

A simple model of how varying exposure at gatherings impacts the emergence of variants and their detection.

Author(s): Taylor BP, Hanage WPJournal: medRxiv October 2023

Understanding how epidemics spread within societies is key for establishing adequate infection control responses. Dynamical models provide a means to…

Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States.

Author(s): Jia KM, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M, Johnson AG, Amin AB, Ali AR, Scobie HM, Swerdlow DLJournal: Eur J EpidemiolPMID: 37093505 April 2023

While some studies have previously estimated lives saved by COVID-19 vaccination, we estimate how many deaths could have been averted…

Addressing spatial misalignment in population health research: a case study of US congressional district political metrics and county health data.

Author(s): Nethery RC, Testa C, Tabb LP, Hanage WP, Chen JT, Krieger NJournal: medRxivPMID: 36711902 January 2023

Areal spatial misalignment, which occurs when data on multiple variables are collected using mismatched boundary definitions, is a ubiquitous obstacle…

Association of body mass index with COVID-19-related neurologic sequelae: a retrospective cohort study

Author(s): Elsayed S, Cabrera A, Oullette D, Jones PM, Dhami R, Hanage WPJournal: Clin Exp Med December 2022

We sought to explore the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and neurologic outcomes following acute COVID-19 infection. We conducted a…