Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Observational studies and the difficult quest for causality: lessons from vaccine effectiveness and impact studies.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Jha A, Simonsen LJournal: Int J EpidemiolPMID: 27453361 December 2016

Although randomized placebo-controlled trials (RCT) are critical to establish efficacy of vaccines at the time of licensure, important remaining questions…

The association of meningococcal disease with influenza in the United States, 1989-2009.

Author(s): Jacobs JH, Viboud C, Tchetgen ET, Schwartz J, Steiner C, Simonsen L, Lipsitch MJournal: PLoS OnePMID: 25265409 September 2014

Prior influenza infection is a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. Quantifying the fraction of meningococcal disease attributable to influenza…

Modelling seasonal variations in the age and incidence of Kawasaki disease to explore possible infectious aetiologies.

Author(s): Pitzer VE, Burgner D, Viboud C, Simonsen L, Andreasen V, Steiner CA, Lipsitch MJournal: Proc Biol SciPMID: 22398170 July 2012

The average age of infection is expected to vary during seasonal epidemics in a way that is predictable from the…

Evolution, safety, and highly pathogenic influenza viruses.

Author(s): Lipsitch M, Plotkin JB, Simonsen L, Bloom BJournal: SciencePMID: 22723411 June 2012

Experience with influenza has shown that predictions of virus phenotype or fitness from nucleotide sequence are imperfect and that predicting…