Infectious diseases and human behavior are intertwined. On one side, our movements and
interactions are the engines of transmission. On the other, the unfolding of viruses might …

Peoples' movements—both local and long-distance—have driven the spread of COVID-19,
within and between communities. At the same time, although most contagion events involve …

Access to COVID-19 vaccines on the global scale has been drastically hindered by
structural socio-economic disparities. Here, we develop a data-driven, age-stratified …

Variables related to socioeconomic status (SES), including income, ethnicity, and education,
shape contact structures and affect the spread of infectious diseases. However, these factors …

INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 crisis has exposed major inequalities between
communities. Understanding the societal risk factors that make some groups particularly …

Individuals' socio-demographic and economic characteristics crucially shape the spread of
an epidemic by largely determining the exposure level to the virus and the severity of the …

The promise of efficacious vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 is fulfilled and vaccination
campaigns have started worldwide. However, the fight against the pandemic is far from over …

Although there has been a growing interest in causal inference in geography studies, few
studies have incorporated spatiotemporal heterogeneities with causalities. This study …

After more than 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide still face the
challenge of adopting non-pharmaceutical interventions to mitigate the risks posed by the …

In this review we discuss advances in the agent-based modeling of economic and social
systems. We show the state of the art of the heuristic design of agents and how behavioral …