Publications

Causal Estimands for Infectious Disease Count Outcomes to Investigate the Public Health Impact of Interventions

Author(s): Jia KM, Boyer CB, Wallinga J, Lipsitch M|Journal: medRxiv| July 2024

Causal estimands of infectious disease interventions—direct, indirect, overall, and total effects— are conventionally defined as differences in individual risk under…

JYNNEOS™ effectiveness as post-exposure prophylaxis against mpox: Challenges using real-world outbreak data.

Author(s): Rosen JB, Arciuolo RJ, Pathela P, Boyer CB, Baumgartner J, Latash J, Malec L, Lee EH, Reddy V, King R, Edward Real J, Lipsitch M, Zucker JR|Journal: Vaccine|PMID: 38218669| January 2024

JYNNEOS vaccine has been used as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) during a mpox outbreak in New York City (NYC). Data on…

Alternative analysis of mpox vaccine effectiveness data from Israel

Author(s): Boyer CB, Lipsitch M|Journal: medRxiv| February 2023

Wolff Sagy et al. report that a single dose of MVA-BN mpox vaccine was 86% effective in preventing incident mpox.…

Infectious disease dynamics and restrictions on social gathering size.

Author(s): Boyer CB, Rumpler E, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M|Journal: Epidemics|PMID: 36058184| August 2022

Social gatherings can be an important locus of transmission for many pathogens including SARS-CoV-2. During an outbreak, restricting the size…