4 papers
Identifying Mitigation Strategies for COVID-19 Superspreading on Flights using Models that Account for Passenger Movement
Sirish Namilae, Yuxuan Wu, Anuj Mubayi +2
Despite commercial airlines mandating masks, there have been multiple documented events of COVID-19 superspreading on flights. We used available data from three flights, including…
Constrained Linear Movement Model (CALM): Simulation of passenger movement in airplanes
Mehran Sadeghi Lahijani, Tasvirul Islam, Ashok Srinivasan +1
Pedestrian dynamics models the walking movement of individuals in a crowd. It has recently been used in the analysis of procedures to reduce the risk of disease spread in airplanes…
Next-Generation High-Resolution Vector-Borne Disease Risk Assessment
Meysam Ghaffari, Ashok Srinivasan, Anuj Mubayi +2
Vector-borne diseases cause more than 1 million deaths annually. Estimates of epidemic risk at high spatial resolutions can enable effective public health interventions. Our goal i…
High-resolution home location prediction from tweets using deep learning with dynamic structure
Meysam Ghaffari, Ashok Srinivasan, Xiuwen Liu
Timely and high-resolution estimates of the home locations of a sufficiently large subset of the population are critical for effective disaster response and public health intervent…