People
Samuel V. Scarpino
Northeastern University
Northeastern University
Publications
Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic
Brennan Klein, Timothy LaRock, Stefan McCabe, Leo Torres, Lisa Friedland, Maciej Kos, Filippo Privitera, Brennan Lake, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, John S. Brownstein, Richard Gonzalez, David Lazer, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Samuel V. Scarpino, Alessandro Vespignani, Matteo Chinazzi
PLoS Digital Health3(2), e0000430 (2025)
Seeding COVID-19 across Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Reported Importation Events across 49 Countries
Laura A. Skrip, Prashanth Selvaraj, Brittany Hagedorn, Andre Lin Ouédraogo, Navideh Noori, Amanda Orcutt, Dina Mistry, Jamie Bedson, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Samuel V. Scarpino, Benjamin M. Althouse
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene104, 5, 1694–1702 (2021)
Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control
Benjamin M. Althouse, Edward A. Wenger, Joel C. Miller, Samuel V. Scarpino, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Hao Hu
PLoS Biology18(11), e3000897 (2020)
Beyond R0: Heterogeneity in secondary infections and probabilistic epidemic forecasting
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Benjamin M. Althouse, Samuel V. Scarpino, Antoine Allard
Journal of the Royal Society Interface17(172), (2020)
Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics
Benjamin Rader, Samuel V. Scarpino, Anjalika Nande, Alison L. Hill, Ben Adlam, Robert C. Reiner, David M. Pigott, Bernardo Gutierrez, Alexander E. Zarebski, Munik Shrestha, John S. Brownstein, Marcia C. Castro, Christopher Dye, Huaiyu Tian, Oliver G. Pybus, Moritz U. G. Kraemer
Nature Medicine26, 1829–1834 (2020)
Socioeconomic bias in influenza surveillance
Samuel V. Scarpino, James G. Scott, Rosalind M. Eggo, Bruce Clements, Nedialko B. Dimitrov, Lauren Ancel Meyers
PLOS Computational Biology16(7), e1007941 (2020)
Reshaping a nation: Mobility, commuting, and contact patterns during the COVID-19 outbreak
Brennan Klein, Timothy LaRock, Stefan McCabe, Leo Torres, Lisa Friedland, Filippo Privitera, Brennan Lake, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, John S. Brownstein, David Lazer, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Samuel V. Scarpino, Alessandro Vespignani, Matteo Chinazzi
Northeastern University (2020)
Modelling COVID-19
Alessandro Vespignani, Huaiyu Tian, Christopher Dye, James O. Lloyd- Smith, Rosalind M. Eggo, Munik Shrestha, Samuel V. Scarpino, Bernardo Gutierrez, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Joseph Wu, Kathy Leung, Gabriel M. Leung
Nature Review Physics2, 279-281 (2020)
Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle
Nuria Oliver, Bruno Lepri, Harald Sterly, Renaud Lambiotte, Sébastien Delataille, Marco De Nadai, Emmanuel Letouzé, Albert Ali Salah, Richard Benjamins, Ciro Cattuto, Vittoria Colizza, Nicolas De Cordes, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Till Koebe, Sune Lehmann, Juan Murillo, Alex Pentland, Phuong N Pham, Frédéric Pivetta, Jari Saramäki, Samuel V. Scarpino, Michele Tizzoni, Stefaan G. Verhulst, Patrick Vinck
Science Advances6, 23, (2020)
Assessing changes in commuting and individual mobility in major metropolitan areas in the United States during the COVID-19 outbreak
Brennan Klein, Timothy LaRock, Stefan McCabe, Leo Torres, Filippo Privitera, Brennan Lake, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, John S. Brownstein, David Lazer, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Samuel V. Scarpino, Matteo Chinazzi, Alessandro Vespignani
The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China
Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Chia-Hung Yang, Bernardo Gutierrez, Chieh-Hsi Wu, Brennan Klein, David M. Pigott, , Louis Du Plessis, Nuno R. Faria, Ruoran Li, William P. Hanage, John S. Brownstein, Maylis Layan, Alessandro Vespignani, Huaiyu Tian, Christopher Dye, Oliver G. Pybus, Samuel V. Scarpino
Science38, 6490, 493-497 (2020)
Macroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcement
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Samuel V. Scarpino, Jean-Gabriel Young
Nature Physics16, 426–431 (2020)
Asymptomatic Infection and Transmission of Pertussis in Households: A Systematic Review
Rodger Craig, Elizabeth Kunkel, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Hester De Melker, Benjamin M. Althouse, Tod Merkel, Samuel V. Scarpino, Katia Koelle, Lindsay Friedman, Callum Arnold, Shelly Bolotin
Clinical Infectious Diseases70, 1, 152–161 (2020)
On the predictability of infectious disease outbreaks
Samuel V. Scarpino, Giovanni Petri
Nature Communications10, 898, 1-8 (2019)
Ebola: mobility data
M. Elizabeth Halloran, Alessandro Vespignani, Nita Bharti, Leora R. Feldstein, Kathleen A. Alexander, Matthew Ferrari, Jeffrey Shaman, John M. Drake, Travis Porco, Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, Sara Y. Del Valle, Eric Lofgren, Samuel V. Scarpino, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Daozhou Gao, James M. Hyman, Stephen Eubank, Ira M. Longini Jr
Science346(6208), 433 (2014)
Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic
Brennan Klein, Timothy LaRock, Stefan McCabe, Leo Torres, Lisa Friedland, Maciej Kos, Filippo Privitera, Brennan Lake, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, John S. Brownstein, Richard Gonzalez, David Lazer, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Samuel V. Scarpino, Alessandro Vespignani, Matteo Chinazzi
PLoS Digital Health3(2), e0000430 (2025)
Seeding COVID-19 across Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Reported Importation Events across 49 Countries
Laura A. Skrip, Prashanth Selvaraj, Brittany Hagedorn, Andre Lin Ouédraogo, Navideh Noori, Amanda Orcutt, Dina Mistry, Jamie Bedson, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Samuel V. Scarpino, Benjamin M. Althouse
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene104, 5, 1694–1702 (2021)
Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control
Benjamin M. Althouse, Edward A. Wenger, Joel C. Miller, Samuel V. Scarpino, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Hao Hu
PLoS Biology18(11), e3000897 (2020)