Epidemiology and Global Health

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1. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Atovaquone/Proguanil Use and Zoster Vaccination Are Associated with Reduced Alzheimer’s Disease Risk in Two Cohorts: Implications for a Latent Toxoplasma gondii Mechanism

   Ariel Israel, Abraham Weizman ... Eugene Merzon
2. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Timely vaccine strain selection and genomic surveillance improve evolutionary forecast accuracy of seasonal influenza A/H3N2

   John Huddleston, Trevor Bedford

   Reducing vaccine development time from 12 months to 6 reduces forecasting error by 25%, while reducing lags in genome sequence submission reduces uncertainty of current clade frequencies by 50%.
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Using step selection functions to analyse human mobility using telemetry data in infectious disease epidemiology: a case study of leptospirosis

   Pablo Ruiz Cuenca, Fábio N Souza ... Emanuele Giorgi

   Step selection functions are a useful tool for analysing fine-scale human movements to understand environmental interactions in the context of infectious disease epidemiology.
4. 1. Medicine
   2. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Determining fragility and robustness to missing data in binary outcome meta-analyses, illustrated with conflicting associations between vitamin D and cancer mortality

   David Robert Grimes
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Global risk mapping of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and H5Nx in the light of epidemic episodes occurring from 2020 onward

   Marie-Cécile Dupas, Maria F Vincenti-Gonzalez ... Simon Dellicour
6. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Spatiotemporal relationships between extreme weather events and arbovirus transmission across Brazil

   Victoria M Cox, Felipe Campos de Melo Iani ... Ilaria Dorigatti
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Measuring changes in Plasmodium falciparum census population size in response to sequential malaria control interventions

   Kathryn E Tiedje, Qi Zhan ... Karen P Day

   Despite major perturbations from sequential interventions, the Plasmodium falciparum population remained very large and retained the var population genetic characteristics of a high-transmission system.
8. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   A natural experiment in Kenya reveals durable immunosuppressive effects of early childhood malaria: a longitudinal cohort study

   Mercy S Safari, Timothy O Makori ... Charles J Sande
9. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Forecasting the spatial spread of an Ebola epidemic in real time: Comparing predictions of mathematical models and experts

   James D Munday, Alicia Rosello ... Sebastian Funk

   Models were more consistent than individual experts but performed comparably to ensembles of many experts and relative performance varied by month, justifying the use of combined model and expert forecast methodologies.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Reassessing the link between adiposity and head and neck cancer: a Mendelian randomization study

    Fernanda Morales Berstein, Jasmine Khouja ... Rebecca C Richmond

    Adiposity does not play a major role in head and neck cancer risk.