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.

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…

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…