Project
InfluCast
Website
influcast.org/en/


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Partners
Queen Mary University of London, INSERM, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Politecnico di Torino
People
Vespignani Alessandro, Gozzi Nicolò, Paolotti Daniela, Gioannini Corrado, Rossi Luca, Milano Paolo, Vismara Ivan, Fiandrino Stefania

Influcast is the first Italian hub for epidemiological forecasts that aggregates estimates produced by different research teams about the future trends of influenza-like illnesses at both national and regional levels.
The project is coordinated and maintained by the ISI Foundation in Turin.
Influcast forecasts the evolution of influenza-like-illnesses by aggregating predictions from multiple models
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A statistical modelling approach for determining the cause of reported respiratory syndromes from internet-based participatory surveillance when influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 are co-circulating
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Real-time estimates of the emergence and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: A modeling approach
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Generalized contact matrices allow integrating socioeconomic variables into epidemic models
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Social interactions of dairy cows and their association with milk yield and somatic cell count
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Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
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Reflections On Epidemiological Modeling To Inform Policy During The COVID-19 Pandemic In Western Europe, 2020–23
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Health Affairs42, 12, (2023)
Behavioral Changes Associated With COVID-19 Vaccination: Cross-National Online Survey
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Impact of food-related conflicts on self-reported food insecurity
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The limits of human mobility traces to predict the spread of COVID-19: a transfer entropy approach
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Enabling Multicentric Participatory Disease Surveillance for Global Health Enhancement: Viewpoint on Global Flu View
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Applied Network Science8, 52 (2023)
Association of close-range contact patterns with SARS-CoV-2: a household transmission study
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eLife12, e84753, 1-26 (2023)
Big Social Media Twitter Data for Studying Social Connection: Case Study of Loneliness
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Simplicially driven simple contagion
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Unraveling the COVID-19 hospitalization dynamics in Spain using publicly available data
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Unraveling the COVID-19 hospitalization dynamics in Spain using Bayesian inference
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BMC Medical Research Methodology23, 24 (2023)
Food composition databases in the era of Big Data: Vegetable oils as a case study
Henrique Ferraz De Arruda, Alberto Aleta, Yamir Moreno
Frontiers in Nutrition9, 1052934 (2023)
A dataset to assess mobility changes in Chile following local quarantines
Luca Pappalardo, Giuliano Cornacchia, Victor Navarro, Loreto Bravo, Leonardo Adrian Ferres
Scientific Data10, 6 (2023)
Social behaviour and transmission of lameness in a flock of ewes and lambs
Katharine E. Lewis, Emily Price, Darren P. Croft, Joss Langford, Laura Ozella, Ciro Cattuto, Laura E. Green
Frontiers in Veterinary Science9, 1027020 (2022)
Psychotropic drug purchases during the COVID‑19 pandemic in Italy and their relationship with mobility restrictions
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Scientific Reports12, 19336 (2022)
I feel you: Mixed-methods study of social support of loneliness on twitter
Yelena Mejova, Anya Hommadova Lu
Computers in Human Behavior136, 107389 (2022)
Multilayer networks with higher-order interaction reveal the impact of collective behavior on epidemic dynamics
Jinming Wan, Genki Ichinose, Michael Small, Hiroki Sayama, Yamir Moreno, Changqing Cheng
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Digital Epidemiology
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Comparing Sources of Mobility for Modelling the Epidemic Spread of Zika Virus in Colombia
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases16(7), e0010565 (2022)
Modeling the impact of COVID-19 on future tuberculosis burden
Mario Tovar, Alberto Aleta, Joaquín Sanz, Yamir Moreno
Nature - communications medicine2(77), (2022)
Behavior Change Around an Online Health Awareness Campaign: A Causal Impact Study
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Frontiers in Public Health10, 857531 (2022)
All the lonely people: Effects of social isolation on self-disclosure of loneliness on Twitter
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Quantifying the importance and location of SARS-CoV-2 transmission events in large metropolitan areas
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PNAS119(26), e2112182119 (2022)
Ensemble of opinion dynamics models to understand the role of the undecided about vaccines
Jacopo Lenti,
Journal of Complex Networks10(3), cnac018 (2022)
Assessing the Risk of Spatial Spreading of Diseases in Hospitals
Dan Lu, Alberto Aleta, Yamir Moreno
Frontiers in Physics10, 882314 (2022)
Impact of vaccine hesitancy on secondary COVID-19 outbreaks in the US: an age-structured SIR model
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BMC Infectious Diseases22(511), (2022)
Echoes through Time: Evolution of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccination Debate
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Evidence of pandemic fatigue associated with stricter tiered COVID-19 restrictions
Federico Delussu, Michele Tizzoni, Laetitia Gauvin
PLoS Digital Health1(5), e0000035 (2022)
Anatomy of the first six months of COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Italy
Nicolò Gozzi, Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis, Ana Pastore Y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Nicola Perra, Alessandro Vespignani
PLoS Computational Biology18(5), e1010146 (2021)
Addressing the socioeconomic divide in computational modeling for infectious diseases
Michele Tizzoni, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Laetitia Gauvin, Márton Karsai, Nicola Perra, Shweta Bansal
Nature Communication13, 2897 (2022)
STAMINA: Bioinformatics Platform for Monitoring and Mitigating Pandemic Outbreaks
Nikolaos Bakalos, Maria Kaselimi, Nikolaos Doulamis, Anastasios Doulamis, Dimitrios Kalogeras, Mathaios Bimpas, Agapi Davradou, Aggeliki Vlachostergiou, Anaxagoras Fotopoulos, Maria Plakia, Alexandros Karalis, Sofia Tsekeridou, Themistoklis Anagnostopoulos, Angela Maria Despotopoulou, Ilaria Bonavita, Katrina Petersen, Leonidas Pelepes, Lefteris Voumvourakis, Anastasia Anagnostou, Derek Groen, Kate Mintram, Arindam Saha, Simon J. E. Taylor, Charon van der Ham, Patrick Kaleta, Dražen Ignjatović, Luca Rossi
Technologies10(3), 63 (2022)
Staying Strong, But For How Long? Mental Health During COVID-19 in Italy
Francesca Marazzi, Andrea Piano Mortari, Federico Belotti, Giuseppe Carrà, Ciro Cattuto, Joanna Kopinska, Daniela Paolotti, Vincenzo Atella
CEIS - Research Papers20(4), 541 (2022)
Epidemic spreading in populations of mobile agents with adaptive behavioral response
Paulo Cesar Ventura, Alberto Aleta, Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues, Yamir Moreno
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals156, 111849 (2022)
Googling for Abortion: Search Engine Mediation of Abortion Accessibility in the United States
Yelena Mejova, Tatiana Gracyk, Ronald E. Robertson
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media2, 1-41 (2022)
Association networks and social temporal dynamics in ewes and lambs
Laura Ozella, Emily Price, Joss Langford, Katharine E. Lewis, Ciro Cattuto, Darren P. Croft
Applied Animal Behaviour Science246, 105515 (2022)
Are People Optimistically Biased about the Risk of COVID-19 infection? Lessons from the first wave of the pandemic in Europe
Kathleen McColl, Marion Debin, Cecile Souty, Caroline Guerrisi, Clément Turbelin, Alessandra Falchi, Isabelle Bonmarin, Daniela Paolotti, Chinelo Obi, Jim Duggan, Yamir Moreno, Ania Wisniak, Antoine Flahault, Thierry Blanchon, Vittoria Colizza, Jocelyn Raude
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health19 (1), 436 (2021)
Integrating digital and field surveillance as complementary efforts to manage epidemic diseases of livestock: African swine fever as a case study
Michele Tizzani, Violeta Muñoz-Gómez, Marco De Nardi, Daniela Paolotti, Olga Muñoz, Piera Ceschi, Arvo Viltrop, Ilaria Capua
PLoS ONE16(12), e0252972 (2021)
Infodemics: A new challenge for public health
Sylvie C. Briand, Matteo Cinelli, Tim Nguyen, Rosamund Lewis, Dimitri Prybylski, Carlo M. Valensise, Vittoria Colizza, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Nicola Perra, Andrea Baronchelli, Michele Tizzoni, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala, Tina Purnat, Christine Czerniak, Adam Kucharski, Akhona Tshangela, Lei Zhou, Walter Quattrociocchi
Cell184, 25, 6010-6014 (2021)
Impact of data accuracy on the evaluation of COVID-19 mitigation policies
Michele Starnini, Alberto Aleta, Michele Tizzoni, Yamir Moreno
Data & Policy3, e28 (2021)
Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the first COVID-19 wave
Jessica T. Davis, Matteo Chinazzi, Nicola Perra, Kunpeng Mu, Ana Pastore Y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Natalie E. Dean, Corrado Gioannini, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Luca Rossi, Kaiyuan Sun, Xinyue Xiong, Ira M. Longini Jr, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Cécile Viboud, Alessandro Vespignani
Nature600, 127–132 (2021)
Interplay between mobility, multi-seeding and lockdowns shapes COVID-19 local impact
Mattia Mazzoli, Emanuele Pepe, David Mateo, Ciro Cattuto, Laetitia Gauvin, Paolo Bajardi, Michele Tizzoni, Alberto Hernando, Sandro Meloni, José J. Ramasco
PLoS Computational Biology17(10), e1009326 (2021)
The importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Nicolò Gozzi, Paolo Bajardi, Nicola Perra
PLoS Computational Biology17(9), e1009346 (2021)
Spatial and temporal variation in proximity networks of commercial dairy cattle in Great Britain
Helen R. Fielding, Matthew J. Silk, Trevelyan J. McKinley, Richard J. Delahay, Jared K. Wilson-Aggarwal, Laetitia Gauvin, Laura Ozella, Ciro Cattuto, Robbie A. McDonald
Preventive Veterinary Medicine194, 105443 (2021)
Socio-economic determinants of mobility responses during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy: from provinces to neighbourhoods
Laetitia Gauvin, Paolo Bajardi, Emanuele Pepe, Brennan Lake, Filippo Privitera, Michele Tizzoni
Journal of the Royal Society Interface18, 20210092 (2021)
Early social distancing policies in Europe, changes in mobility & COVID-19 case trajectories: Insights from Spring 2020
Liana R. Woskie, Jonathan Hennessy, Valeria Espinosa, Thomas C. Tsai, Swapnil Vispute, Benjamin H. Jacobson, Ciro Cattuto, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Alex Fabrikant, Krishna Gadepalli, Adam Boulanger, Adam Pearce, Chaitanya Kamath, Arran Schlosberg, Charlotte Stanton, Shailesh Bavadekar, Matthew Abueg, Michael Hogue, Andrew Oplinger, Katherine Chou, Greg Corrado, Tomer Shekel, Ashish K. Jha, Gregory A. Wellenius, Evgeniy Gabrilovich
PLoS ONE16(6), e0253071 (2021)
YouTubing at Home: Media Sharing Behavior Change as Proxy for Mobility Around COVID-19 Lockdowns
Yelena Mejova, Nicolas Kourtellis
WebSci '21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 272–281 (2021)
Risk factors associated with the incidence of self-reported COVID-19-like illness: data from a web-based syndromic surveillance system in the Netherlands
Scott A. McDonald, Cees C. van den Wijngaard, Cornelia C. H. Wielders, Ingrid H. M. Friesema, Loes Soetens, Daniela Paolotti, Susan van den Hof, Albert Jan van Hoek
Epidemiology & Infection149, e129, 1-7 (2021)
The impact of relaxing interventions on human contact patterns and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in China
Juanjuan Zhang, Maria Litvinova, Yuxia Liang, Wen Zheng, Huilin Shi, Alessandro Vespignani, Cécile Viboud, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu
Science Advances7, 19, eabe2584 (2021)
Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on COVID-19 outbreaks: a study on empirical contact data
Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Mikko Kivelä, Sune Lehmann, Jari Saramäki
Journal of the Royal Society Interface18, 20201000 (2021)
Estimating the effect of social inequalities on the mitigation of COVID-19 across communities in Santiago de Chile
Nicolò Gozzi, Michele Tizzoni, Matteo Chinazzi, Leonardo Adrian Ferres, Alessandro Vespignani, Nicola Perra
Nature Communications12, 2429 (2021)
The Framing of COVID-19 in Italian Media and Its Relationship with Community Mobility: A Mixed-Method Approach
Yotam Ophir, Dror Walter, Daniel Arnon, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Michele Tizzoni, Joëlle Carota, Lorenzo D'Antiga, Emanuele Nicastro
Journal of Health Communication26, 3, 161-173 (2021)
Data-driven estimate of SARS-CoV-2 herd immunity threshold in populations with individual contact pattern variations
Dan Lu, Alberto Aleta, Marco Ajelli, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Alessandro Vespignani, Yamir Moreno
Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control
Giulia Cencetti, Gabriele Santin, Antonio Longa, Emanuele Pigani, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Sune Lehmann, Marcel Salathé, Bruno Lepri
Nature Communications12, 1655 (2021)
Infectivity, susceptibility, and risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission under intensive contact tracing in Hunan, China
Shixiong Hu, Yan Wang, Maria Litvinova, Kaiwei Luo, Lingshuang Ren, Qianlai Sun, Xinghui Chen, Ge Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Liang, Zhihong Deng, Wen Zheng, Mei Li, Hao Yang, Jinxin Guo, Kai Wang, Xinhua Chen, Ziyan Liu, Han Yan, Huilin Shi, Zhiyuan Chen, Yonghong Zhou, Kaiyuan Sun, Alessandro Vespignani, Cécile Viboud, Lidong Gao, Marco Ajelli, Hongjie Yu
Nature Communications12, 1533 (2021)
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)
Combining Wearable Devices and Mobile Surveys to Study Child and Youth Development in Malawi: Implementation Study of a Multimodal Approach
Onicio Leal Neto, Simon Haenni, John Phuka, Laura Ozella, Daniela Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto, Daniel Robles, Guilherme Lichand
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance7(3), e23154 (2021)
Time to evaluate COVID-19 contact-tracing apps
Vittoria Colizza, Eva Grill, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Ciro Cattuto, Adam Kucharski, Steven Riley, Michelle Kendall, Katrina Lythgoe, David Bonsall, Chris Wymant, Lucie Abeler-Dörner, Luca Ferretti, Christophe Fraser
Nature Medicine27, 361–362 (2021)
Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment
Mirco Nanni, Gennady Andrienko, Albert-László Barabási, Chiara Boldrini, Francesco Bonchi, Ciro Cattuto, Francesca Chiaromonte, Giovanni Comandé, Marco Conti, Mark Coté, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Paolo Ferragina, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti, Dirk Helbing, Kimmo Kaski, Janos Kertesz, Sune Lehmann, Bruno Lepri, Paul Lukowicz, Stan Matwin, David Megías Jiménez, Anna Monreale, Katharina Morik, Nuria Oliver, Andrea Passarella, Andrea Passerini, Dino Pedreschi, Alex Pentland, Fabio Pianesi, Francesca Pratesi, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Salvatore Ruggieri, Arno Siebes, Vicenc Torra, Roberto Trasarti, Jeroen van den Hoven, Alessandro Vespignani
Ethics and Information Technology23, 1-6 (2021)
Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2
Kaiyuan Sun, Wei Huang, Lidong Gao, Yan Wang, Kaiwei Luo, Lingshuang Ren, Zhifei Zhan, Xinghui Chen, Shanlu Zhao, Yiwei Huang, Qianlai Sun, Ziyan Liu, Maria Litvinova, Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Ajelli, Cécile Viboud, Hongjie Yu
Science371, 6526, (2021)
Inferring high-resolution human mixing patterns for disease modeling
Dina Mistry, Maria Litvinova, Ana Pastore Y Piontti, Matteo Chinazzi, Laura Fumanelli, Marcelo F. C. Gomes, Syed A. Haque, Quan-Hui Liu, Kunpeng Mu, Xinyue Xiong, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini Jr, Stefano Merler, Marco Ajelli, Alessandro Vespignani
Nature Communications12, 323 (2021)
Patterns of Routes of Administration and Drug Tampering for Nonmedical Opioid Consumption: Data Mining and Content Analysis of Reddit Discussions
Duilio Balsamo, Paolo Bajardi, Alberto Salomone, Rossano Schifanella
Journal of Medical Internet Research23(1), e21212 (2021)
The COVID-19 outbreak in Sichuan, China: Epidemiology and impact of interventions
Quan-Hui Liu, Ana I. Bento, Kexin Yang, Hang Zhang, Xiaohan Yang, Stefano Merler, Alessandro Vespignani, Jiancheng Lv, Hongjie Yu, Wei Zhang, Tao Zhou, Marco Ajelli
PLoS Computational Biology16(12), e1008467 (2020)
Risk of Secondary Infection Waves of COVID-19 in an Insular Region: The Case of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Victor M. Eguíluz, Juan Fernández-Gracia, Jorge P. Rodríguez, Juan M. Pericàs, Carlos Melián
Frontiers in Medicine7, 563455 (2020)
Trends and Characteristics of Emergency Medical Services in Italy: A 5-Years Population-Based Registry Analysis
Sara Campagna, Alessio Conti, Valerio Dimonte, Marco Dalmasso, Michele Starnini, Maria Michela Gianino, Alberto Borracino
Healthcare8(4), 551 (2020)
Here, the huge rainbow within the COVID-19 storm
Mario Rasetti, Ilaria Capua
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Journal of Medical Internet Research16(3), e78 (2014)
Assessing the ecotoxicologic hazards of a pandemic influenza medical response
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Environ Health Perspectives119(8), 1084–1090 (2011)
Containing the accidental laboratory escape of potential pandemic influenza viruses
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BMC Medicine11(1), 252 (2013)
Human mobility and the worldwide impact of intentional localized highly pathogenic virus release
Alessandro Vespignani, Bruno Gonçalves, Duygu Balcan
Scientific Reports 3810, (2013)
Immunization strategies for epidemic processes in time-varying contact networks
Michele Starnini, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat, Tristan Picard, Anna Machens
Journal of Theoretical Biology337, 89–100 (2013)
Host mobility drives pathogen competition in spatially structured populations
Alessandro Vespignani, Yamir Moreno, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, Sandro Meloni
PLoS Comput Biol9(8): e1003169, (2013)
Measuring contact patterns with wearable sensors: methods, data characteristics and applications to data‐driven simulations of infectious diseases
Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Philippe Vanhems, Nicolas Voirin
Clinical Microbiology and Infection20(1), 10-16 (2014)
Modeling the critical care demand and antibiotics resources needed during the Fall 2009 wave of influenza A(H1N1) pandemic
Alessandro Vespignani, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, Bruno Gonçalves, Wouter Van den Broeck, Nicola Perra, A.J. Valleron, C. Chouaid, Duygu Balcan, A.C. Singer, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco
PLoS Current Influenza1133, (2009)
Modeling vaccination campaigns and the Fall/Winter 2009 activity of the new A(H1N1) influenza in the Northern Hemisphere
Alessandro Vespignani, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, Bruno Gonçalves, Wouter Van den Broeck, Nicola Perra, Duygu Balcan, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco
Emerging Health Threats Journal2:e11, (2009)
Multiscale mobility networks and the large scale spreading of infectious diseases
Alessandro Vespignani, Vittoria Colizza, Bruno Gonçalves, Duygu Balcan, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco
PNAS106,51, 21484-21489 (2009)
Web-based participatory surveillance of infectious diseases: the Influenzanet participatory surveillance experience
Daniela Paolotti, Annasara Carnahan, Vittoria Colizza, Ken T. D. Eames, John W. Edmunds, Gabriela Gomes, Carl Koppeschaar, Moa Rehn, Ronald Smallenburg, Clément Turbelin, Sander Van Noort, Alessandro Vespignani
Clinical Microbiology and Infection20(1), 17-21 (2013)
Wearable Sensor Networks for Measuring Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in Healthcare Settings
Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Vittoria Colizza, Lorenzo Isella, Caterina Rizzo, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Wouter Van den Broeck
Proceedings of the eHealth 2010 Conference Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering69, 192-195 (2012)
Estimating potential infection transmission routes in hospital wards using wearable proximity sensors
Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat, B. Kim, B. Comte, Philippe Vanhems, Jean-François Pinton, Corinne Régis, Nagham Khanafer, Nicolas Voirin
PLoS ONE8(9), e73970 (2013)
Close encounters in a pediatric ward: measuring face-to-face proximity and mixing patterns with wearable radio frequency devices
Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat, Vittoria Colizza, Caterina Rizzo, Wouter Van den Broeck, Lorenzo Isella, Mariateresa Romano, Francesco Gesualdo, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Lucilla Ravà, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi
PLoS ONE6(2), e17144, (2011)
The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale
Alessandro Vespignani, Marco Quaggiotto, Corrado Gioannini, Vittoria Colizza, Bruno Gonçalves, Wouter Van den Broeck
BMC Infectious Diseases2011, 11:37, (2011)
High-Resolution Measurements of Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in a Primary School
Marco Quaggiotto, Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat, Wouter Van den Broeck, Philippe Vanhems, Jean-François Pinton, Lorenzo Isella, Juliette Stehlé, Corinne Régis, Nicolas Voirin, B. Lina
PLoS ONE6(8), e23176, (2011)
Towards a Characterization of Behavior-Disease Models
Alessandro Vespignani, Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra, Duygu Balcan
PLoS ONE6(8): e23084, (2011)
Simulation of an SIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees
Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat, Vittoria Colizza, Wouter Van den Broeck, Philippe Vanhems, Jean-François Pinton, Lorenzo Isella, Juliette Stehlé, Corinne Régis, Nagham Khanafer, Nicolas Voirin
BMC Medicine9, 87 (2011)
Digital Epidemiology
Marcel Salathé, Linus Bengtsson, Todd J. Bodnar, Devon D. Brewer, John S. Brownstein, Caroline Buckee, Ellsworth Campbell, Ciro Cattuto, Shashank Khandelwal, Patricia L. Mabry, Alessandro Vespignani
PLoS Computational Biology8(7), e1002616 (2012)
An infectious disease model on empirical networks of human contact: bridging the gap between dynamic network data and contact matrices
Anna Machens, Francesco Gesualdo, Caterina Rizzo, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto
BMC Infectious Diseases13, 185 (2013)
Real-time numerical forecast of global epidemic spreading: case study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm
Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Chiara Poletto, José J. Ramasco, Duygu Balcan, Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra, Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani
BMC Medicine10, 165 (2012)
On the usefulness of ontologies in epidemiology research and practice
João.D. Ferreira, Daniela Paolotti, Francisco M. Couto, Mário J. Silva
The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health67(5), 385-8 (2012)
Internet-based surveillance of Influenza-like-illness in the UK during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic
Natasha L. Tilston, Ken T. D. Eames, Daniela Paolotti, Toby Ealden, John W. Edmunds
BMC Public Health10, 650 (2010)
Modeling the spatial spread of infectious diseases: The GLobal Epidemic and Mobility computational model
Duygu Balcan, Bruno Gonçalves, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco, Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani
Journal of Computational Science1(3), 132–145 (2010)
Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent-based versus structured metapopulation models
Marco Ajelli, Bruno Gonçalves, Duygu Balcan, Vittoria Colizza, Hao Hu, José J. Ramasco, Stefano Merler, Alessandro Vespignani
BMC Infectious Diseases10, 190 (2010)
A statistical modelling approach for determining the cause of reported respiratory syndromes from internet-based participatory surveillance when influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 are co-circulating
Scott A. McDonald, Albert Jan van Hoek, Daniela Paolotti, Mariette Hooiveld, Adam Meijer, Marit de Lange, , Arianne van Gageldonk-Lafeber, Jacco Wallinga
PLOS Digital Health3(12), e0000655 (2024)
Real-time estimates of the emergence and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: A modeling approach
Nicolò Gozzi, Matteo Chinazzi, Jessica T. Davis, Kunpeng Mu, Ana Pastore Y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Alessandro Vespignani, Nicola Perra
Epidemics 100805 (2024)
Modeling the interplay between disease spread, behaviors, and disease perception with a data-driven approach
Alessandro De Gaetano, Alain Barrat, Daniela Paolotti
Mathematical Biosciences378, 109337 (2024)
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