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Commentary

Importance of investing time and money in integrating large language model-based agents into outbreak analytics pipelines

van Hoek AJ, Funk S, Flasche S, Quilty BJ, van Kleef E,  et al.
2024-08-01 • Lancet Microbe
2024-08-01 • Lancet Microbe
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Pre-Print

Assessing the performance of real-time epidemic forecasts: A case study of Ebola in the Western Area Region of Sierra Leone, 2014-15

Funk S, Camacho A, Kucharski AJ, Lowe R, Eggo RM,  et al.
2017-08-18 • bioRxiv
2017-08-18 • bioRxiv
Real-time forecasts based on mathematical models can inform critical decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks. Yet, epidemic forecasts are rarely evaluated during or after the...
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Short Report

Updated estimate of the duration of the meningo-encephalitic stage in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

Checchi F, Funk S, Chandramohan D, Haydon DT, Chappuis F
2015-07-04 • BMC Research Notes
2015-07-04 • BMC Research Notes
BACKGROUND
The duration of the stages of HAT is an important factor in epidemiological studies and intervention planning. Previously, we published estimates of the duration of the ha...
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Research

The impact of reactive mass vaccination campaigns on measles outbreaks in the Katanga region, Democratic Republic of Congo

Funk S, Takahashi S, Hellewell J, Gadroen K, Carrion Martin AI,  et al.
2019-08-17 • medRxiv
2019-08-17 • medRxiv
The Katanga region in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been struck by repeated epidemics of measles, with large outbreaks occurring in 2010–13 and 2015. In many of the affected...
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Review

Highly targeted spatiotemporal interventions against cholera epidemics, 2000–19: a scoping review

Ratnayake R, Finger F, Azman AS, Lantagne D, Funk S,  et al.
2021-03-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2021-03-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control. Although mass campaigns covering large populations are commonly used to control cholera, spatial targeting of case hous...
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Research

Measuring the unknown: an estimator and simulation study for assessing case reporting during epidemics

Jarvis CI, Gimma A, Finger F, Morris TP, Thompson JA,  et al.
2022-05-23 • PLoS Computational Biology
2022-05-23 • PLoS Computational Biology
The fraction of cases reported, known as 'reporting', is a key performance indicator in an outbreak response, and an essential factor to consider when modelling epidemics and assessing t...
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Research

Evaluation of the benefits and risks of introducing Ebola community care centers, Sierra Leone

Kucharski AJ, Camacho A, Checchi F, Waldman RJ, Grais RF,  et al.
2015-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2015-03-01 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
In some parts of western Africa, Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) have reached capacity. Unless capacity is rapidly scaled up, the chance to avoid a generalized Ebola epidemic will soon di...
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Research

Assessing the performance of real-time epidemic forecasts: a case study of the 2013–16 Ebola epidemic

Funk S, Camacho A, Kucharski AJ, Lowe R, Eggo RM,  et al.
2019-02-11 • PLoS Computational Biology
2019-02-11 • PLoS Computational Biology
Real-time forecasts based on mathematical models can inform critical decision-making during infectious disease outbreaks. Yet, epidemic forecasts are rarely evaluated during or after the...
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Research

Temporal Changes in Ebola Transmission in Sierra Leone and Implications for Control Requirements: a Real-time Modelling Study

Camacho A, Kucharski AJ, Aki-Sawyerr Y, White M, Flasche S,  et al.
2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
2015-02-10 • PLoS Currents
Between August and November 2014, the incidence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) rose dramatically in several districts of Sierra Leone. As a result, the number of cases exceeded the capacit...
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Research

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Superspreading Events in the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola Epidemic

Lau MSY, Dalziel BD, Funk S, McClelland A, Tiffany A,  et al.
2017-02-13 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-02-13 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa (2014-2015) has prompted an explosion of efforts to understand the transmission dynamics of the virus and to analyze the p...
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Research

Real-time analysis of the diphtheria outbreak in forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh

Finger F, Funk S, White K, Siddqui MR, Edmunds KL,  et al.
2019-03-12 • BMC Medicine
2019-03-12 • BMC Medicine
Between August and December 2017, more than 625,000 Rohingya from Myanmar fled into Bangladesh, settling in informal makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar district and joining 212,000 Rohingya ...
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Research

Estimation of Rift Valley fever virus spillover to humans during the Mayotte 2018–2019 epidemic

Metras R, Edmunds WJ, Youssouffi C, Dommergues L, Fournié G,  et al.
2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-09-29 • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging, zoonotic, arboviral hemorrhagic fever threatening livestock and humans mainly in Africa. RVF is of global concern, having expanded its geographica...
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Research

The impact of control strategies and behavioural changes on the elimination of ebola from Lofa County, Liberia

Funk S, Ciglenecki I, Tiffany A, Gignoux EM, Camacho A,  et al.
2017-04-10 • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2017-04-10 • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa was stopped by an enormous concerted effort of local communities and national and international organizations. It is not clear, however, how much the pu...
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Pre-Print

Measuring the unknown: an estimator and simulation study for assessing case reporting during epidemics

Jarvis CI, Gimma A, Finger F, Morris TP, Thompson JA,  et al.
2021-02-17 • bioRxiv
2021-02-17 • bioRxiv
The fraction of cases reported, known as ‘reporting’, is a key performance indicator in an outbreak response, and an essential factor to consider when modelling epidemics and assessing t...
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Review

Climate-sensitive disease outbreaks in the aftermath of extreme climatic events: A scoping review

Alcayna T, Fletcher I, Gibb R, Tremblay LL, Funk S,  et al.
2022-04-15 • One Earth
2022-04-15 • One Earth
Outbreaks of climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSID) in the aftermath of extreme climatic events, such as floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, and heatwaves, are of high public heal...