Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

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 COJournal: Lancet Infect DisPMID: 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 COJournal: medRxivPMID: 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 COJournal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S APMID: 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 LJournal: Int J EpidemiolPMID: 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 COJournal: PLoS Negl Trop DisPMID: 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 WJournal: BMJ Glob HealthPMID: 29527343 February 2018

Comparing nonpharmaceutical interventions for containing emerging epidemics.

Author(s): Peak CM, Childs LM, Grad YH, Buckee COJournal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S APMID: 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 MJournal: LancetPMID: 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 MFJournal: Am J Trop Med HygPMID: 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…