Publications

Estimating internationally imported cases during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

Author(s): Menkir TF, Chin T, Hay JA, Surface ED, De Salazar PM, Buckee CO, Watts A, Khan K, Sherbo R, Yan AWC, Mina MJ, Lipsitch M, Niehus R|Journal: Nat Commun|PMID: 33436574| January 2021

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, predictions of international outbreaks were largely based on imported cases from Wuhan, China, potentially missing…

Mapping imported malaria in Bangladesh using parasite genetic and human mobility data.

Author(s): Chang HH, Wesolowski A, Sinha I, Jacob CG, Mahmud A, Uddin D, Zaman SI, Hossain MA, Faiz MA, Ghose A, Sayeed AA, Rahman MR, Islam A, Karim MJ, Rezwan MK, Shamsuzzaman AKM, Jhora ST, Aktaruzzaman MM, Drury E, Gonçalves S, Kekre M, Dhorda M, Vongpromek R, Miotto O, Engø-Monsen K, Kwiatkowski D, Maude RJ, Buckee C|Journal: Elife|PMID: 30938289| August 2019

For countries aiming for malaria elimination, travel of infected individuals between endemic areas undermines local interventions. Quantifying parasite importation has…

Mapping malaria by combining parasite genomic and epidemiologic data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Taylor AR, Chang HH, Verity R, Tessema S, Bailey JA, Alex Perkins T, Neafsey DE, Greenhouse B, Buckee CO|Journal: BMC Med|PMID: 30333020| October 2018

Recent global progress in scaling up malaria control interventions has revived the goal of complete elimination in many countries. Decreasing…

Quantifying connectivity between local Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite populations using identity by descent.

Author(s): Taylor AR, Schaffner SF, Cerqueira GC, Nkhoma SC, Anderson TJC, Sriprawat K, Pyae Phyo A, Nosten F, Neafsey DE, Buckee CO|Journal: PLoS Genet|PMID: 29077712| October 2017

With the rapidly increasing abundance and accessibility of genomic data, there is a growing interest in using population genetic approaches…