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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Public health decision making"”.
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in silico Public Health: The Essential Role of Highly Detailed Simulations in Support of Public Health Decision-Making
Public Health requires a trans-disciplinary approach to tackle the breadth and depth of the issues it faces. Public health decisions are reached through the compilation of multiple data sources and their thoughtful synthesis. The complexity and importance of these decisions necessitates a variety …
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Disease Surveillance and Implications on Public Health Decisions: Example of invasive Salmonellosis in sub-Saharan Africa
… developed and prequalified through the World Health Organization (WHO) while several vaccines against iNTS disease are currently undergoing clinical testing. Throughout the development process of new vaccines, different surveillance methods need to be deployed to allow an initial accurate …
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Examining the use of infectious disease modelling in outbreak response
… 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 oftentimes less …
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MATHEMATICAL MODELLING FOR REAL-TIME AND PROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
… 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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The molecular epidemiology of Salmonella Typhi and applications for policy
… and two have been prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO); a small number of countries have introduced TCVs into their national immunization programs. However, many countries lack primary surveillance data to inform decision-making for TCV introduction. Here, aiming to aggregate …
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Informing Public Health Policy Design and Operations with Analytics: Methods and Applications
… approaches hold immense potential for improving public health decision-making in complex, uncertain, and high-risk environments. Yet, there are several key challenges that stand in the way of successfully leveraging large-scale, heterogeneous, and noisy data into timely and actionable policy …
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High-throughput sequencing to understand pathogen carriage and transmission
… rRNA gene sequencing. Using nasal samples from healthy human participants and a serially diluted mock microbial community, I compared alpha and beta diversity, and compositional abundance where the PCR amplification was conducted in triplicate, duplicate or as a single reaction, and where …
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Evidence-Based Public Health: Using Data Visualization for Improving the Understanding of Data and Information
… of data in a manner that results in better decision-making in health and healthcare, there is little understanding of its applications in public health practice, particularly for public health program planning and resource allocation. This dissertation explores what can be learned from the …