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College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

# overview
My research uses transdisciplinary modeling approaches to address public health challenges for a wide range of infectious diseases. A focus of my research has been to develop data-driven models to 1) understand and predict epidemiological risk, patterns, and burden of infectious diseases, 2) identify and evaluate optimal strategies for disease control and prevention, and 3) perform economic analyses of public health intervention measures for preventing or curtailing disease outbreaks. Such research is paramount for informing public health policy for infectious diseases prevention and control and ultimately saving lives.

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2.2 Factors Relating To The Physical Environment

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Sars-cov-2; Health Care Workers; Sleep Quality; Working Pressure; Individual-based Mode

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2.2 Factors Relating To The Physical Environment

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Gambian Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping Sickness)

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Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, U.s.

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2.5 Research Design And Methodologies (aetiology)

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2.3 Psychological, Social And Economic Factors

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University of Cambridge - (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

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Universite de Yaounde I - (Yaoundé, Cameroon)

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University of Cambridge - (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

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Stellenbosch University - (Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa)

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Optimizing antiviral treatment for seasonal influenza in the USA: a mathematical modeling analysis.

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Bayesian Inference for COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in India Using a Modified SEIR Model

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A Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Informing Policies on Zika Virus Control.

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Improved assessment of Schistosoma community infection through data resampling methodology

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Harnessing case isolation and ring vaccination to control Ebola.

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Cost-effectiveness of a community-based intervention for reducing the transmission of Schistosoma haematobium and HIV in Africa.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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The Reproduction Number of Swine Viral Respiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review.

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Exposure to cooler temperatures during pupal development increases Aedes aegypti vector competence and the R0 for Zika virus

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Individual-based modeling of COVID-19 transmission in college communities.

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American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

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Dynamics and control of Ebola virus transmission in Montserrado, Liberia: a mathematical modelling analysis.

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Mitigating Prenatal Zika Virus Infection in the Americas.

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Spatial heterogeneity in projected leprosy trends in India.

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Reacting to outbreaks at neighboring localities

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Reacting to outbreaks at neighboring localities.

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HIV and Schistosoma haematobium prevalences correlate in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Effect of Ebola progression on transmission and control in Liberia.

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Optimal targeting of seasonal influenza vaccination toward younger ages is robust to parameter uncertainty.

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Repeat mediated excision of gene drive elements for restoring wild-type populations.

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Global elimination of lymphatic filariasis.

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Spatial and Temporal Clustering of Chikungunya Virus Transmission in Dominica.

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Expansions to the MGDrivE suite for simulating the efficacy of novel gene-drive constructs in the control of mosquito-borne diseases.

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Nowcasting Influenza-like Illness Trends in Cameroon

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Using Community-Level Prevalence of Loa loa Infection to Predict the Proportion of Highly-Infected Individuals: Statistical Modelling to Support Lymphatic Filariasis and Onchocerciasis Elimination Programs.

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SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers: A Retrospective Analysis and Model Simulations of a Nosocomial Outbreak

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Effects of Response to 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak on Deaths from Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis, West Africa.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Control Among Healthcare Workers in a Hospital Setting: A Modelling Study

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Macro-parasite transmission in dynamic seasonal environment: Basic Reproductive Number, endemicity, and control

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Optimization of control strategies for epidemics in heterogeneous populations with symmetric and asymmetric transmission.

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Dengue dynamics and vaccine cost-effectiveness in Brazil.

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Impact of Schistosoma mansoni on malaria transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Policy Lessons From Quantitative Modeling of Leprosy.

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Using Test Positivity and Reported Case Rates to Estimate State-Level COVID-19 Prevalence and Seroprevalence in the United States.

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Evaluating Vaccination Strategies for Zika Virus in the Americas.

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Epidemiological and viral genomic sequence analysis of the 2014 ebola outbreak reveals clustered transmission.

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Assessing the impact of a potential canine vaccine for the control of Chagas disease: a mathematical modeling study

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Assessing the impact of aggregating disease stage data in model predictions of human African trypanosomiasis transmission and control activities in Bandundu province (DRC).

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SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers: a retrospective analysis and model study

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Risk factors of SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers: a retrospective study of a nosocomial outbreak.

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Country- and age-specific optimal allocation of dengue vaccines.

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A stochastic metapopulation state-space approach to modeling and estimating Covid-19 spread

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Forecasting the new case detection rate of leprosy in four states of Brazil: A comparison of modelling approaches.

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The impact of vector migration on the effectiveness of strategies to control gambiense human African trypanosomiasis.

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Improved Assessment of Schistosoma Community Infection Through Data Resampling Method.

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The exacerbation of Ebola outbreaks by conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Calibrating COVID-19 community transmission risk levels to reflect infection prevalence.

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Repeat mediated excision of gene drive elements for restoring wild-type populations.

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Global Risk and Elimination of Yellow Fever Epidemics.

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Quantitative analyses and modelling to support achievement of the 2020 goals for nine neglected tropical diseases.

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Strategies for containing Ebola in West Africa.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Using test positivity and reported case rates to estimate state-level COVID-19 prevalence and seroprevalence in the United States.

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SARS-CoV-2 transmission and control in a hospital setting: an individual-based modelling study.

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Quantitative assessment of the impact of partially protective anti-schistosomiasis vaccines.

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State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States.

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Effectiveness of Systemic Insecticide Dog Treatment for the Control of Chagas Disease in the Tropics.

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SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers: A Retrospective Analysis and Model Simulations of a Nosocomial Outbreak

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High Rate of Non-Human Feeding by Aedes aegypti Reduces Zika Virus Transmission in South Texas.

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Evaluating the effectiveness of localized control strategies to curtail chikungunya.

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Optimal control of disease infestations on a lattice.

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SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Control Among Healthcare Workers in a Hospital Setting: A Modelling Study

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The human-snail transmission environment shapes long term schistosomiasis control outcomes: Implications for improving the accuracy of predictive modeling.

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Modelling control of Schistosoma haematobium infection: predictions of the long-term impact of mass drug administration in Africa.

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Are the London Declaration's 2020 goals sufficient to control Chagas disease?: Modeling scenarios for the Yucatan Peninsula.

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Data-driven models to predict the elimination of sleeping sickness in former Equateur province of DRC.

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Vaccination Games of Boundedly Rational Parents toward New Childhood Immunization

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Forecasting influenza-like illness trends in Cameroon using Google Search Data.

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Evaluating long-term effectiveness of sleeping sickness control measures in Guinea.

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Balancing detection and eradication for control of epidemics: sudden oak death in mixed-species stands.

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State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States

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National- and state-level impact and cost-effectiveness of nonavalent HPV vaccination in the United States.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Evaluating the potential impact of mass praziquantel administration for HIV prevention in Schistosoma haematobium high-risk communities.

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The economic value of identifying and treating Chagas disease patients earlier and the impact on Trypanosoma cruzi transmission.

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Emergence of antibiotic resistance in immunocompromised host populations: A case study of emerging antibiotic resistant tuberculosis in AIDS patients.

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Comparing the impact of artemisinin-based combination therapies on malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.

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American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees.

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Global risk of dengue outbreaks and the impact of El Nio events.

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Individual-based modeling of COVID-19 transmission in college communities

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Resource allocation for epidemic control in metapopulations.

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Determinants of Human African Trypanosomiasis Elimination via Paratransgenesis.

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Potential cost-effectiveness of schistosomiasis treatment for reducing HIV transmission in Africa--the case of Zimbabwean women.

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A Scoping Review of Mathematical Models Used to Investigate the Role of Dogs in Chagas Disease Transmission.

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Correction: Harnessing Case Isolation and Ring Vaccination to Control Ebola.

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Mechanistic Models of Influenza Transmission in Commercial Swine Populations: A Systematic Review.

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A stochastic metapopulation state-space approach to modeling and estimating COVID-19 spread.

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American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

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Evaluation of the US Definitions for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Community Risk Levels.

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Philippine drug war and impending public health crisis.

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The impact of imitation on vaccination behavior in social contact networks.

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Assessing the impact of data aggregation in model predictions of HAT transmission and control activities

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Application of Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation Study Findings to Refine Predictive Modeling of Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium Control in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Retrospective Analysis of the 2014-2015 Ebola Epidemic in Liberia.

# publications[].publisher
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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SARS-CoV-2 transmission and control in a hospital setting: an individual-based modelling study

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Algorithms and computations for foldedness of P-ideals in BCI-algebras

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Effectiveness of fluralaner treatment regimens for the control of canine Chagas disease: A mathematical modeling study.

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Spatio-temporal dynamics of measles outbreaks in Cameroon.

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Assessing Strategies Against Gambiense Sleeping Sickness Through Mathematical Modeling.

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Comparison and validation of two computational models of Chagas disease: A thirty year perspective from Venezuela.

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Analyzing the use of non-pharmaceutical personal protective measures through self-interest and social optimum for the control of an emerging disease.

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Dynamic Models of Infectious Disease Transmission in Prisons and the General Population.

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Under-reporting and case fatality estimates for emerging epidemics.

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State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States.

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Schistosoma Transmission in a Dynamic Seasonal Environment and its Impact on the Effectiveness of Disease Control.

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A systems approach to understanding farm animal-environmental drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the food supply chain

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USDA Rural Development - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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RAPID: Collaborative Research: Optimizing non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical interventions for controlling COVID-19 at the community-level

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Directorate for Biological Sciences - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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Texas A&M researcher uses interdisciplinary modeling to help shape local health policy

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Transdisciplinary modeling: Using data to combat disease outbreaks