Publications

Identifying climate drivers of infectious disease dynamics: recent advances and challenges ahead.

Author(s): Metcalf CJE, Walter KS, Wesolowski A, Buckee CO, Shevliakova E, Tatem AJ, Boos WR, Weinberger DM, Pitzer VE|Journal: Proc Biol Sci|PMID: 28814655| August 2017

Climate change is likely to profoundly modulate the burden of infectious diseases. However, attributing health impacts to a changing climate…

Seasonal Population Movements and the Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases.

Author(s): Buckee CO, Tatem AJ, Metcalf CJE|Journal: Trends Parasitol|PMID: 27865741| January 2017

National policies designed to control infectious diseases should allocate resources for interventions based on regional estimates of disease burden from…

Introduction of rubella-containing-vaccine to Madagascar: implications for roll-out and local elimination.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Mensah K, Brook CE, Andrianjafimasy M, Winter A, Buckee CO, Razafindratsimandresy R, Tatem AJ, Heraud JM, Metcalf CJ|Journal: J R Soc Interface|PMID: 27122178| April 2016

Few countries in Africa currently include rubella-containing vaccination (RCV) in their immunization schedule. The Global Alliance for Vaccines Initiative (GAVI)…

Identifying Hotspots of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission Using Spatial and Molecular Genetic Data.

Author(s): Zelner JL, Murray MB, Becerra MC, Galea J, Lecca L, Calderon R, Yataco R, Contreras C, Zhang Z, Manjourides J, Grenfell BT, Cohen T|Journal: J Infect Dis|PMID: 26175455| January 2016

We aimed to identify and determine the etiology of "hotspots" of concentrated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-tuberculosis) risk in Lima, Peru.

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…

The potential impact of coinfection on antimicrobial chemotherapy and drug resistance.

Author(s): Birger RB, Kouyos RD, Cohen T, Griffiths EC, Huijben S, Mina MJ, Volkova V, Grenfell B, Metcalf CJE|Journal: Trends Microbiol|PMID: 26028590| September 2015

Across a range of pathogens, resistance to chemotherapy is a growing problem in both public health and animal health. Despite…