Quantiative Study of Major Historic Epidemics and Transitions to longer, healthier lives

Project Information

HistoricEpi

Grant agreement ID: 659437

DOI 10.3030/659437

Project closed

EC signature date 4 March 2015

Start date 1 October 2015

End date 30 September 2017

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 212 194,80

EU contribution € 212 194,80

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Global Mortality Impact of the 1957–1959 Influenza Pandemic

Author(s): Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Rodrigo Fuentes, Jose Flores, Mark A. Miller, Gerardo Chowell
Published in: Journal of Infectious Diseases, Issue 213/5, 2016, Page(s) 738-745, ISSN 0022-1899
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv534

The power of historical data for assessment of childhood vaccine benefits

Author(s): Lone Simonsen, Cécile Viboud
Published in: The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Issue 16/5, 2016, Page(s) 516-518, ISSN 1473-3099
Publisher: The Lancet Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00060-8

Pandemics, Severity, and Context—Some Loose Ends

Author(s): Lone Simonsen, Cecile Viboud
Published in: Health Security, Issue 15/4, 2017, Page(s) 343-344, ISSN 2326-5094
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University
DOI: 10.1089/hs.2017.0055

A generalized-growth model to characterize the early ascending phase of infectious disease outbreaks

Author(s): Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Gerardo Chowell
Published in: Epidemics, Issue 15, 2016, Page(s) 27-37, ISSN 1755-4365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2016.01.002

Cholera epidemics of the past offer new insights into an old enemy

Author(s): Matthew Phelps, Mads Linnet Perner, Virginia E Pitzer, Viggo Andreasen, Peter K M Jensen, Lone Simonsen
Published in: The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017, ISSN 0022-1899
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix602

Perspectives on model forecasts of the 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa: lessons and the way forward

Author(s): Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Stefano Merler, Alessandro Vespignani
Published in: BMC Medicine, Issue 15/1, 2017, ISSN 1741-7015
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0811-y

Infectious Disease Surveillance in the Big Data Era: Towards Faster and Locally Relevant Systems

Author(s): Lone Simonsen, Julia R. Gog, Don Olson, Cécile Viboud
Published in: Journal of Infectious Diseases, Issue 214/suppl 4, 2016, Page(s) S380-S385, ISSN 0022-1899
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw376

The RAPIDD ebola forecasting challenge: Synthesis and lessons learnt

Author(s): Cécile Viboud, Kaiyuan Sun, Robert Gaffey, Marco Ajelli, Laura Fumanelli, Stefano Merler, Qian Zhang, Gerardo Chowell, Lone Simonsen, Alessandro Vespignani
Published in: Epidemics, 2017, ISSN 1755-4365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2017.08.002

Big Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Modeling

Author(s): Shweta Bansal, Gerardo Chowell, Lone Simonsen, Alessandro Vespignani, Cécile Viboud
Published in: Journal of Infectious Diseases, Issue 214/suppl 4, 2016, Page(s) S375-S379, ISSN 0022-1899
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw400

The RAPIDD Ebola forecasting challenge special issue: Preface

Author(s): Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Gerardo Chowell, Alessandro Vespignani
Published in: Epidemics, 2017, ISSN 1755-4365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2017.10.003

The RAPIDD Ebola forecasting challenge: Model description and synthetic data generation

Author(s): Marco Ajelli, Qian Zhang, Kaiyuan Sun, Stefano Merler, Laura Fumanelli, Gerardo Chowell, Lone Simonsen, Cecile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani
Published in: Epidemics, 2017, ISSN 1755-4365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2017.09.001

The Western Africa Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic Exhibits Both Global Exponential and Local Polynomial Growth Rates

Author(s): Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, James M Hyman, Lone Simonsen
Published in: PLoS Currents, 2015, ISSN 2157-3999
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.8b55f4bad99ac5c5db3663e916803261

Unintended Pregnancies in Brazil - A Challenge for the Recommendation to Delay Pregnancy Due to Zika

Author(s): Cynthia Schuck-Paim, Daniel López, Lone Simonsen, Wladimir Alonso
Published in: PLoS Currents, 2016, ISSN 2157-3999
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.7038a6813f734c1db547240c2a0ba291

A global map of hemispheric influenza vaccine recommendations based on local patterns of viral circulation

Author(s): Wladimir J. Alonso, Christine Yu, Cecile Viboud, Stephanie A. Richard, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, Lone Simonsen, Wyller A. Mello, Mark A. Miller
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 5/1, 2015, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/srep17214

Human mobility and the spatial transmission of influenza in the United States

Author(s): Vivek Charu, Scott Zeger, Julia Gog, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Stephen Kissler, Lone Simonsen, Bryan T. Grenfell, Cécile Viboud
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 13/2, 2017, Page(s) e1005382, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: National Institutes of Health
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005382

Characterizing the reproduction number of epidemics with early subexponential growth dynamics

Author(s): Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Seyed M. Moghadas
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 13/123, 2016, Page(s) 20160659, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0659