Despite continued efforts to improve health systems worldwide, emerging pathogen
epidemics remain a major public health concern. Effective response to such outbreaks relies …

Background Beyond their direct effects on mortality, outbreaks of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
might disrupt the provision of health care services in affected countries, possibly resulting in …

Accurate estimation of the parameters characterising infectious disease transmission is vital
for optimising control interventions during epidemics. A valuable metric for assessing the …

This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in
Sierra Leone, where women frequently experience sexual violence and face multiple …

We study an SAIRS-type epidemic model with vaccination, where the role of asymptomatic
and symptomatic infectious individuals is explicitly considered in the transmission patterns of …

The time-varying reproduction number (Rt) is an important measure of transmissibility during
outbreaks. Estimating whether and how rapidly an outbreak is growing (Rt> 1) or declining …

Human mobility is an important driver of geographic spread of infectious pathogens.
Detailed information about human movements during outbreaks are, however, difficult to …

Genetic analyses have provided important insights into Ebola virus spread during the recent
West African outbreak, but their implications for specific intervention scenarios remain …

Abstract We exploit the West African Ebola epidemic as an event that necessitated the
provision of a common-interest public good, Ebola control measures, to empirically …

Dynamic SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious, Removed) compartmental models provide
a tool for predicting the size and duration of both unfettered and managed outbreaks—the …