The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened discussion of
the use of mobile phone data in outbreak response. Mobile phone data have been proposed …

Human travel can shape infectious disease dynamics by introducing pathogens into
susceptible populations or by changing the frequency of contacts between infected and …

Mathematical modeling has played a prominent and necessary role in the current
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with an increasing number of models …

Human movements contribute to the transmission of malaria on spatial scales that exceed
the limits of mosquito dispersal. Identifying the sources and sinks of imported infections due …

Background Quantifying the effect of natural disasters on society is critical for recovery of
public health services and infrastructure. The death toll can be difficult to assess in the …

The recent emergence of dengue viruses into new susceptible human populations
throughout Asia and the Middle East, driven in part by human travel on both local and global …

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

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic progresses, social distancing has
emerged as an effective measure to restrain the spread of infections. Many people are now …

Background Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are
core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Given …

Strategies for containing an emerging infectious disease outbreak must be
nonpharmaceutical when drugs or vaccines for the pathogen do not yet exist or are …