[HTML][HTML] Asymptomatic but infectious–The silent driver of pathogen transmission. A pragmatic review

N Shaikh, P Swali, RMGJ Houben - Epidemics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Throughout 2020, COVID-19 interventions prioritised symptomatic individuals
despite growing evidence of pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission. From the …

Mathematical assessment of the role of human behavior changes on SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics

B Pant, S Safdar, M Santillana, AB Gumel - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only presented a major global public health and socio-
economic crisis, but has also significantly impacted human behavior towards adherence (or …

Adaptive human behaviour modulates the impact of immune life history and vaccination on long-term epidemic dynamics

B Espinoza, CM Saad-Roy, BT Grenfell… - …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The multiple immunity responses exhibited in the population and co-circulating variants
documented during pandemics show a high potential to generate diverse long-term …

Heterogeneous adaptive behavioral responses may increase epidemic burden

B Espinoza, S Swarup, CL Barrett, M Marathe - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) constitute the front-line responses against
epidemics. Yet, the interdependence of control measures and individual microeconomics …

Social dilemma of nonpharmaceutical interventions: Determinants of dynamic compliance and behavioral shifts

A Glaubitz, F Fu - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
In fighting infectious diseases posing a global health threat, ranging from influenza to Zika,
nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI), such as social distancing and face covering, remain …

Social Dilemma of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

A Glaubitz, F Fu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.07829, 2024 - arxiv.org
In fighting infectious diseases posing a global health threat, ranging from influenza to Zika,
non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI), such as social distancing and face covering, remain …

A network-based model to assess vaccination strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic by using Bayesian optimization

G González-Parra, J Villanueva-Oller… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper we build a network-based model to evaluate and compare vaccination plans in
order to find the optimal strategies. The age-structured model is designed to take into …

[HTML][HTML] A nonlinear relapse model with disaggregated contact rates: Analysis of a forward-backward bifurcation

J Calvo-Monge, F Sanchez, JG Calvo… - Infectious Disease …, 2023 - Elsevier
Throughout the progress of epidemic scenarios, individuals in different health classes are
expected to have different average daily contact behavior. This contact heterogeneity has …

A simple model of coupled individual behavior and its impact on epidemic dynamics

J Chen, B Espinoza, J Chou, AB Gumel, SA Levin… - Mathematical …, 2025 - Elsevier
Containing infectious disease outbreaks is a complex challenge that usually requires the
deployment of multiple intervention strategies. While mathematical modeling of infectious …

Modeling the impact of hospitalization-induced behavioral changes on SARS-COV-2 spread in New York City

A Oveson, M Girvan, A Gumel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.06941, 2025 - arxiv.org
A novel behavior-epidemiology model, which considers $ n $ heterogeneous behavioral
groups based on level of risk tolerance and distinguishes behavioral changes by social and …