Using “outbreak science” to strengthen the use of models during epidemics

Caitlin Rivers; Jean Paul Chretien; Steven Riley; Julie A. Pavlin; Alexandra Woodward; David Brett-Major; Irina Maljkovic Berry; Lindsay Morton; Richard G. Jarman; Matthew Biggerstaff; Michael A. Johansson; Nicholas G. Reich; Diane Meyer; Michael R. Snyder; Simon Pollett

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11067-2

Using “outbreak science” to strengthen the use of models during epidemics

Caitlin Rivers^*, Jean Paul Chretien, Steven Riley, Julie A. Pavlin, Alexandra Woodward, David Brett-Major, Irina Maljkovic Berry, Lindsay Morton, Richard G. Jarman, Matthew Biggerstaff, Michael A. Johansson, Nicholas G. Reich, Diane Meyer, Michael R. Snyder, Simon Pollett

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Infectious disease modeling has played a prominent role in recent outbreaks, yet integrating these analyses into public health decision-making has been challenging. We recommend establishing ‘outbreak science’ as an inter-disciplinary field to improve applied epidemic modeling.

Original language	English
Article number	3102
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11067-2
State	Published - 1 Dec 2019
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Rivers, C., Chretien, J. P., Riley, S., Pavlin, J. A., Woodward, A., Brett-Major, D., Maljkovic Berry, I., Morton, L., Jarman, R. G., Biggerstaff, M., Johansson, M. A., Reich, N. G., Meyer, D., Snyder, M. R., & Pollett, S. (2019). Using “outbreak science” to strengthen the use of models during epidemics. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 3102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11067-2

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