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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Infectious Disease Modelling"”.
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Examining the use of infectious disease modelling in outbreak response
Infectious disease modelling has been brought to the forefront of national public health decision making during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the field is highly technically developed, transformation of insights from infectious disease modelling into policy in a clear, timely, and relevant manner is …
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MATHEMATICAL MODELLING FOR REAL-TIME AND PROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Infectious diseases are a major threat to population health and often require decisions to be made under uncertainty about current and future dynamics. Mathematical models provide a way to combine mechanistic knowledge with surveillance data and to evaluate alternative intervention strategies. …
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Evaluating pooled testing designs in community and healthcare settings for infectious disease management and in particular for epidemics
… the impact that pooled testing could have had on disease management including the interplay with other non-pharmaceutical measures, 2) understanding the conditions in the population (such as compliance) and disease dynamics that best suit pooled testing, and 3) designing new pooled testing …
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Estimating SARS-CoV-2 transmission in England from randomly sampled prevalence surveys
Surveillance is a crucial component of a pandemic response, informing public health and wider policy. Unfortunately, it is often subject to reporting and behavioural biases, reducing its robustness. The CIS (Coronavirus Infection Survey) was a large-scale, longitudinal prevalence survey, with …
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A discrete-time waning immunity model for the spread of an immune escape pathogen
… in infections. The classic Susceptible-Infectious-Immune-Susceptible (SIRS) model is a waning immunity model but is unable to generate rapid high amplitude oscillations. The oscillatory dynamics generated by SIRS-like models are often boosted by additional mechanisms and model features …
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Population dynamics of infectious disease and pathogen evolution: modelling vaccine escape
This thesis investigates how the risk that an infectious pathogen evolves antigenically (leading to pathogen strains that evade existing immunity) depends on the vaccination coverage of its host population. Deterministic compartmental models are coupled with a parsimonious approach to pathogen …