3 papers
q-bio.PE2026
Simulating nationwide coupled disease and fear spread in an agent-based model
Joy Kitson, Prescott C. Alexander, Joseph Tuccillo +5
Human cognitive responses, behavioral responses, and disease dynamics co-evolve over the course of any disease outbreak, and can result in complex feedbacks. We present a dynamic a…
q-bio.PE2025
Simulating the impact of perception bias on social contact surveys for infectious disease modelling
Thomas J. Harris, Prescott C. Alexander, Anh B. D. Pham +3
Social contact patterns are a key input to many infectious disease models. Contact surveys, where participants are asked to provide information on their recent close and casual con…
q-bio.PE2025
Epicast 2.0: A large-scale, demographically detailed, agent-based model for simulating respiratory pathogen spread in the United States
Prescott C. Alexander, Thomas J. Harris, Joy Kitson +3
The recent history of respiratory pathogen epidemics, including those caused by influenza and SARS-CoV-2, has highlighted the urgent need for advanced modeling approaches that can…