Publications – Page 3 – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

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

Author(s): Wesolowski A, O'Meara WP, Eagle N, Tatem AJ, Buckee COJournal: PLoS Comput BiolPMID: 26158274 July 2015

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

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 COJournal: EpidemiologyPMID: 25643101 March 2015

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

Enhancing disease surveillance with novel data streams: challenges and opportunities.

Author(s): Althouse BM, Scarpino SV, Meyers LA, Ayers JW, Bargsten M, Baumbach J, Brownstein JS, Castro L, Clapham H, Cummings DA, Del Valle S, Eubank S, Fairchild G, Finelli L, Generous N, George D, Harper DR, Hébert-Dufresne L, Johansson MA, Konty K, Lipsitch M, Milinovich G, Miller JD, Nsoesie EO, Olson DR, Paul M, Polgreen PM, Priedhorsky R, Read JM, Rodríguez-Barraquer I, Smith DJ, Stefansen C, Swerdlow DL, Thompson D, Vespignani A, Wesolowski AJournal: EPJ Data SciPMID: 27990325 January 2015

Novel data streams (NDS), such as web search data or social media updates, hold promise for enhancing the capabilities of…

Commentary: containing the ebola outbreak – the potential and challenge of mobile network data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Buckee CO, Bengtsson L, Wetter E, Lu X, Tatem AJJournal: PLoS CurrPMID: 25642369 September 2014

Quantifying travel behavior for infectious disease research: a comparison of data from surveys and mobile phones.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Stresman G, Eagle N, Stevenson J, Owaga C, Marube E, Bousema T, Drakeley C, Cox J, Buckee COJournal: Sci RepPMID: 25022440 July 2014

Human travel impacts the spread of infectious diseases across spatial and temporal scales, with broad implications for the biological and…

The impact of biases in mobile phone ownership on estimates of human mobility.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Eagle N, Noor AM, Snow RW, Buckee COJournal: J R Soc InterfacePMID: 23389897 February 2013

Mobile phone data are increasingly being used to quantify the movements of human populations for a wide range of social,…

The use of census migration data to approximate human movement patterns across temporal scales.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Buckee CO, Pindolia DK, Eagle N, Smith DL, Garcia AJ, Tatem AJJournal: PLoS OnePMID: 23326367 January 2013

Human movement plays a key role in economies and development, the delivery of services, and the spread of infectious diseases.…

Mobile phones and malaria: modeling human and parasite travel.

Author(s): Buckee CO, Wesolowski A, Eagle NN, Hansen E, Snow RWJournal: Travel Med Infect DisPMID: 23478045 January 2013

Human mobility plays an important role in the dissemination of malaria parasites between regions of variable transmission intensity. Asymptomatic individuals…

Quantifying the impact of human mobility on malaria.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Eagle N, Tatem AJ, Smith DL, Noor AM, Snow RW, Buckee COJournal: SciencePMID: 23066082 October 2012

Human movements contribute to the transmission of malaria on spatial scales that exceed the limits of mosquito dispersal. Identifying the…

Human movement data for malaria control and elimination strategic planning.

Author(s): Pindolia DK, Garcia AJ, Wesolowski A, Smith DL, Buckee CO, Noor AM, Snow RW, Tatem AJJournal: Malar JPMID: 22703541 June 2012

Recent increases in funding for malaria control have led to the reduction in transmission in many malaria endemic countries, prompting…