Networks and the epidemiology of directly transmitted infectious diseases are fundamentally
linked. The foundations of epidemiology and early epidemiological models were based on …

Background Social network characteristics have an important role in understanding HIV
transmission among female sex workers. The purpose of this systematic review was to …

Despite an undergraduate degree in Zoology and an MSc on the behavior of voles, I have
long been fascinated by theoretical biology and the relationship between models and data …

A wide range of communicable human diseases can be considered as spreading through a
network of possible transmission routes. The implied network structure is vital in determining …

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a network-based technique for estimating traits in
hard-to-reach populations, for example, the prevalence of HIV among drug injectors. In …

Although mixing patterns are thought to be important determinants of the spread of airborne
infectious diseases, to our knowledge, there have been no attempts to directly quantify them …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether networks of drug-injecting and sexual
relationships among drug injectors are associated with individual human immunodeficiency …

Objective: To prospectively study changes in the social networks of persons at presumably
high risk for HIV in a community with low prevalence and little endogenous transmission …

Background: Empirical studies have the potential to collect data on patterns of sexual mixing
and network structures. Goal: To explore the contribution of different network measures in …

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to define, among sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic
attendees,(1) patterns of sex partner selection,(2) relative risks for gonococcal or chlamydial …