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From the 100 Day Mission to 100 lines of software development: how to improve early outbreak analytics

Cuartero CT, Carnegie AC, Cucunuba ZM, Cori A, Hollis SM,  et al.
2024-12-01 • Lancet Digital Health
2024-12-01 • Lancet Digital Health
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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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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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Research

Identifying human encounters that shape transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other acute respiratory infections

le Polain de Waroux O, Flasche S, Kucharski AJ, Langendorf C, Ndazima D,  et al.
2018-12-01 • Epidemics
2018-12-01 • Epidemics
Although patterns of social contacts are believed to be an important determinant of infectious disease transmission, it remains unclear how the frequency and nature of human interactions...
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Research

Characteristics of human encounters and social mixing patterns relevant to infectious diseases spread by close contact: a survey in Southwest Uganda

le Polain de Waroux O, Cohuet S, Ndazima D, Kucharski AJ, Juan-Giner A,  et al.
2018-04-11 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2018-04-11 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from low-resource ...
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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

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

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...