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Professor Alan Fenwick OBE

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Emeritus Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3418a.fenwick Website

 
 
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Location

 

G30Norfolk PlaceSt Mary's Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Chami:2017:10.1038/s41467-017-01499-z,
author = {Chami, GF and Kontoleon, AA and Bulte, E and Fenwick, A and Kabatereine, NB and Tukahebwa, EM and Dunne, DW},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-01499-z},
journal = {Nature Communications},
title = {Diffusion of treatment in social networks and mass drug administration.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01499-z},
volume = {8},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Information, behaviors, and technologies spread when people interact. Understanding these interactions is critical for achieving the greatest diffusion of public interventions. Yet, little is known about the performance of starting points (seed nodes) for diffusion. We track routine mass drug administration-the large-scale distribution of deworming drugs-in Uganda. We observe friendship networks, socioeconomic factors, and treatment delivery outcomes for 16,357 individuals in 3491 households of 17 rural villages. Each village has two community medicine distributors (CMDs), who are the seed nodes and responsible for administering treatments. Here, we show that CMDs with tightly knit (clustered) friendship connections achieve the greatest reach and speed of treatment coverage. Importantly, we demonstrate that clustering predicts diffusion through social networks when spreading relies on contact with seed nodes while centrality is unrelated to diffusion. Clustering should be considered when selecting seed nodes for large-scale treatment campaigns.
AU  - Chami,GF
AU  - Kontoleon,AA
AU  - Bulte,E
AU  - Fenwick,A
AU  - Kabatereine,NB
AU  - Tukahebwa,EM
AU  - Dunne,DW
DO  - 10.1038/s41467-017-01499-z
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 2041-1723
TI  - Diffusion of treatment in social networks and mass drug administration.
T2  - Nature Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01499-z
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55278
VL  - 8
ER  -
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