Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Syndromic surveillance using monthly aggregate health systems information data: methods with application to COVID-19 in Liberia

Author(s): Fulcher IR, Boley EJ, Gopaluni A, Varney PF, Barnhart DA, Kulikowski N, Mugunga J.-C, Murray M, Law MR, Hedt-Gauthier BJournal: Int J Epidemiol May 2021

Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 circulation is imperative to inform local public health response. However, it has been hindered by limited…

Population mobility reductions associated with travel restrictions during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone: use of mobile phone data.

Author(s): Peak CM, Wesolowski A, Zu Erbach-Schoenberg E, Tatem AJ, Wetter E, Lu X, Power D, Weidman-Grunewald E, Ramos S, Moritz S, Buckee CO, Bengtsson LJournal: Int J EpidemiolPMID: 29947788 October 2018

Travel restrictions were implemented on an unprecedented scale in 2015 in Sierra Leone to contain and eliminate Ebola virus disease.…

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…