Publications

Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Qureshi T, Boni MF, Sundsøy PR, Johansson MA, Rasheed SB, Engø-Monsen K, Buckee CO|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 26351662| September 2015

The recent emergence of dengue viruses into new susceptible human populations throughout Asia and the Middle East, driven in part…

Quantifying seasonal population fluxes driving rubella transmission dynamics using mobile phone data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Metcalf CJ, Eagle N, Kombich J, Grenfell BT, Bjørnstad ON, Lessler J, Tatem AJ, Buckee CO|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 26283349| September 2015

Changing patterns of human aggregation are thought to drive annual and multiannual outbreaks of infectious diseases, but the paucity of…

Impact of School Cycles and Environmental Forcing on the Timing of Pandemic Influenza Activity in Mexican States, May-December 2009.

Author(s): Tamerius J, Viboud C, Shaman J, Chowell G|Journal: PLoS Comput Biol|PMID: 26291446| August 2015

While a relationship between environmental forcing and influenza transmission has been established in inter-pandemic seasons, the drivers of pandemic influenza…

Evaluating Spatial Interaction Models for Regional Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, O'Meara WP, Eagle N, Tatem AJ, Buckee CO|Journal: PLoS Comput Biol|PMID: 26158274| July 2015

Simple spatial interaction models of human mobility based on physical laws have been used extensively in the social, biological, and…

Inference of seasonal and pandemic influenza transmission dynamics.

Author(s): Yang W, Lipsitch M, Shaman J|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 25730851| March 2015

The inference of key infectious disease epidemiological parameters is critical for characterizing disease spread and devising prevention and containment measures.…

Quantifying the impact of accessibility on preventive healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile phone data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, O'Meara WP, Tatem AJ, Ndege S, Eagle N, Buckee CO|Journal: Epidemiology|PMID: 25643101| March 2015

Poor physical access to health facilities has been identified as an important contributor to reduced uptake of preventive health services…

Comparison of filtering methods for the modeling and retrospective forecasting of influenza epidemics.

Author(s): Yang W, Karspeck A, Shaman J|Journal: PLoS Comput Biol|PMID: 24762780| April 2014

A variety of filtering methods enable the recursive estimation of system state variables and inference of model parameters. These methods…

Influenza forecasting in human populations: a scoping review.

Author(s): Chretien JP, George D, Shaman J, Chitale RA, McKenzie FE|Journal: PLoS One|PMID: 24714027| April 2014

Forecasts of influenza activity in human populations could help guide key preparedness tasks. We conducted a scoping review to characterize…

The 1918 influenza pandemic in New York City: age-specific timing, mortality, and transmission dynamics.

Author(s): Yang W, Petkova E, Shaman J|Journal: Influenza Other Respir Viruses|PMID: 24299150| March 2014

The 1918 influenza pandemic caused disproportionately high mortality among certain age groups. The mechanisms underlying these differences are not fully…

Does exposure to poultry and wild fowl confer immunity to H5N1?

Author(s): Wan Y, Jeffrey S|Journal: Chin Med J (Engl)|PMID: 25266536| January 2014