Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Multinational patterns of seasonal asymmetry in human movement influence infectious disease dynamics.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Zu Erbach-Schoenberg E, Tatem AJ, Lourenço C, Viboud C, Charu V, Eagle N, Engø-Monsen K, Qureshi T, Buckee CO, Metcalf CJEJournal: Nat CommunPMID: 29234011 December 2017

Seasonal variation in human mobility is globally ubiquitous and affects the spatial spread of infectious diseases, but the ability to…

Age- and sex-related risk factors for influenza-associated mortality in the United States between 1997-2007.

Author(s): Quandelacy TM, Viboud C, Charu V, Lipsitch M, Goldstein EJournal: Am J EpidemiolPMID: 24190951 January 2014

Limited information on age- and sex-specific estimates of influenza-associated death with different underlying causes is currently available. We regressed weekly…

Improving the estimation of influenza-related mortality over a seasonal baseline.

Author(s): Goldstein E, Viboud C, Charu V, Lipsitch MJournal: EpidemiologyPMID: 22992574 November 2012

Existing methods for estimation of mortality attributable to influenza are limited by methodological and data uncertainty. We have used proxies…