Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

All-cause excess mortality across 90 municipalities in Gujarat, India, during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020-April 2021)

Author(s): Acosta RJ, Patnaik B, Buckee CO, Kiang MV, Irizarry RA, Balsari S, Mahmud AJournal: PLOS Glob Public Health August 2022

Official COVID-19 mortality statistics are strongly influenced by local diagnostic capacity, strength of the healthcare and vital registration systems, and…

Data in Crisis – Rethinking Disaster Preparedness in the United States.

Author(s): Balsari S, Kiang MV, Buckee COJournal: N Engl J MedPMID: 34469643 September 2021

Sociodemographic characteristics of missing data in digital phenotyping.

Author(s): Kiang MV, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Alexander MJ, Baker JT, Buckner RL, Coombs G 3rd, Rich-Edwards JW, Carlson KW, Onnela JPJournal: Sci RepPMID: 34326370 July 2021

The ubiquity of smartphones, with their increasingly sophisticated array of sensors, presents an unprecedented opportunity for researchers to collect longitudinal,…

Reconstructing unseen transmission events to infer dengue dynamics from viral sequences

Author(s): Salje H, Wesolowski A, Brown TS, Kiang MV, Berry IM, Lefrancq N, Fernandez S, Jarman RG, Ruchusatsawat K, Iamsirithaworn S, Vandepitte WP, Suntarattiwong P, Read JM, Klungthong C, Thaisomboonsuk B, Engø-Monsen K, Buckee C, Cauchemez S, Cummings DATJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 33753725 March 2021

For most pathogens, transmission is driven by interactions between the behaviours of infectious individuals, the behaviours of the wider population,…

The impact of mobility network properties on predicted epidemic dynamics in Dhaka and Bangkok.

Author(s): Brown TS, Engø-Monsen K, Kiang MV, Mahmud AS, Maude RJ, Buckee COJournal: EpidemicsPMID: 33667878 February 2021

Properties of city-level commuting networks are expected to influence epidemic potential of cities and modify the speed and spatial trajectory…

Incorporating human mobility data improves forecasts of Dengue fever in Thailand.

Author(s): Kiang MV, Santillana M, Chen JT, Onnela JP, Krieger N, Engø-Monsen K, Ekapirat N, Areechokchai D, Prempree P, Maude RJ, Buckee COJournal: Sci RepPMID: 33441598 January 2021

Over 390 million people worldwide are infected with dengue fever each year. In the absence of an effective vaccine for…

Every Body Counts: Measuring Mortality From the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Author(s): Kiang MV, Irizarry RA, Buckee CO, Balsari SJournal: Ann Intern Med September 2020

As of mid-August 2020, more than 170 000 U.S. residents have died of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); however, the true number…

US-county level variation in intersecting individual, household and community characteristics relevant to COVID-19 and planning an equitable response: a cross-sectional analysis.

Author(s): Chin T, Kahn R, Li R, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Balsari S, Kiang MVJournal: BMJ OpenPMID: 32873684 September 2020

To illustrate the intersections of, and intercounty variation in, individual, household and community factors that influence the impact of COVID-19…

Measuring mobility to monitor travel and physical distancing interventions: a common framework for mobile phone data analysis.

Author(s): Kishore N, Kiang MV, Engø-Monsen K, Vembar N, Schroeder A, Balsari S, Buckee COJournal: Lancet Digit HealthPMID: 32905027 September 2020

A surge of interest has been noted in the use of mobility data from mobile phones to monitor physical distancing…

Decomposition of the US black/white inequality in premature mortality, 2010-2015: an observational study.

Author(s): Kiang MV, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Onnela JP, Chen JTJournal: BMJ OpenPMID: 31748287 November 2019

Decompose the US black/white inequality in premature mortality into shared and group-specific risks to better inform health policy.