Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Some principles for using epidemiologic study results to parameterize transmission models.

Author(s): Joshi K, Kahn R, Boyer C, Lipsitch MJournal: medRxivPMID: 37873220 October 2023

Infectious disease models, including individual based models (IBMs), can be used to inform public health response. For these models to…

Comparative performance of between-population vaccine allocation strategies with applications for emerging pandemics.

Author(s): Joshi K, Rumpler E, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Bosan R, Lipsitch MJournal: VaccinePMID: 36697312 January 2023

Vaccine allocation decisions during emerging pandemics have proven to be challenging due to competing ethical, practical, and political considerations. Complicating…

Correction: Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt.

Author(s): Gostic KM, McGough L, Baskerville EB, Abbott S, Joshi K, Tedijanto C, Kahn R, Niehus R, Hay JA, De Salazar PM, Hellewell J, Meakin S, Munday JD, Bosse NI, Sherrat K, Thompson RN, White LF, Huisman JS, Scire J, Bonhoeffer S, Stadler T, Wallinga J, Funk S, Lipsitch M, Cobey SJournal: PLoS Comput BiolPMID: 34879070 December 2021

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008409.].

How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

Author(s): Accorsi EK, Qiu X, Rumpler E, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Kahn R, Joshi K, Goldstein E, Stensrud MJ, Niehus R, Cevik M, Lipsitch MJournal: Eur J EpidemiolPMID: 33634345 February 2021

In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, public health scientists have produced a large and rapidly expanding body of…

Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt.

Author(s): Gostic KM, McGough L, Baskerville EB, Abbott S, Joshi K, Tedijanto C, Kahn R, Niehus R, Hay JA, De Salazar PM, Hellewell J, Meakin S, Munday JD, Bosse NI, Sherrat K, Thompson RN, White LF, Huisman JS, Scire J, Bonhoeffer S, Stadler T, Wallinga J, Funk S, Lipsitch M, Cobey SJournal: PLoS Comput BiolPMID: 33301457 December 2020

Estimation of the effective reproductive number Rt is important for detecting changes in disease transmission over time. During the Coronavirus…