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Individual quarantine versus active monitoring of contacts for the mitigation of COVID-19: a modelling study.

Author(s): Peak CM, Kahn R, Grad YH, Childs LM, Lipsitch M, Buckee CO|Journal: Lancet Infect Dis|PMID: 32445710| May 2020
Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases such as…

Comparative Impact of Individual Quarantine vs. Active Monitoring of Contacts for the Mitigation of COVID-19: a modelling study.

Author(s): Peak CM, Kahn R, Grad YH, Childs LM, Li R, Lipsitch M, Buckee CO|Journal: medRxiv|PMID: 32511440| April 2020
Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases, such as…

Incubation periods impact the spatial predictability of cholera and Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone.

Author(s): Kahn R, Peak CM, Fernández-Gracia J, Hill A, Jambai A, Ganda L, Castro MC, Buckee CO|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 32054785| March 2020
Forecasting the spatiotemporal spread of infectious diseases during an outbreak is an important component of epidemic response. However, it remains…

Population mobility reductions associated with travel restrictions during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone: use of mobile phone data.

Author(s): Peak CM, Wesolowski A, Zu Erbach-Schoenberg E, Tatem AJ, Wetter E, Lu X, Power D, Weidman-Grunewald E, Ramos S, Moritz S, Buckee CO, Bengtsson L|Journal: Int J Epidemiol|PMID: 29947788| October 2018
Travel restrictions were implemented on an unprecedented scale in 2015 in Sierra Leone to contain and eliminate Ebola virus disease.…

Prolonging herd immunity to cholera via vaccination: Accounting for human mobility and waning vaccine effects.

Author(s): Peak CM, Reilly AL, Azman AS, Buckee CO|Journal: PLoS Negl Trop Dis|PMID: 29489815| February 2018
Oral cholera vaccination is an approach to preventing outbreaks in at-risk settings and controlling cholera in endemic settings. However, vaccine-derived…

Productive disruption: opportunities and challenges for innovation in infectious disease surveillance.

Author(s): Buckee CO, Cardenas MIE, Corpuz J, Ghosh A, Haque F, Karim J, Mahmud AS, Maude RJ, Mensah K, Motaze NV, Nabaggala M, Metcalf CJE, Mioramalala SA, Mubiru F, Peak CM, Pramanik S, Rakotondramanga JM, Remera E, Sinha I, Sovannaroth S, Tatem AJ, Zaw W|Journal: BMJ Glob Health|PMID: 29527343| February 2018

Comparing nonpharmaceutical interventions for containing emerging epidemics.

Author(s): Peak CM, Childs LM, Grad YH, Buckee CO|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 28351976| April 2017
Strategies for containing an emerging infectious disease outbreak must be nonpharmaceutical when drugs or vaccines for the pathogen do not…

Fractional dosing of yellow fever vaccine to extend supply: a modelling study.

Author(s): Wu JT, Peak CM, Leung GM, Lipsitch M|Journal: Lancet|PMID: 27837923| December 2016
The ongoing yellow fever epidemic in Angola strains the global vaccine supply, prompting WHO to adopt dose sparing for its…

Measuring the association between artemisinin-based case management and malaria incidence in southern Vietnam, 1991-2010.

Author(s): Peak CM, Thuan PD, Britton A, Nguyen TD, Wolbers M, Thanh NV, Buckee CO, Boni MF|Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg|PMID: 25667053| April 2015
In addition to being effective, fast-acting, and well tolerated, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are able to kill certain transmission stages…

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