Imperial College London
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Dr Maria D Van Kerkhove

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Honorary Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3248m.vankerkhove Website

 
 
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UG11Norfolk PlaceSt Mary's Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Cori:2017:10.1098/rstb.2016.0371,
author = {Cori, A and Donnelly, CA and dorigatti and ferguson, NM and fraser and garske and jombart and Nedjati-Gilani, G and Nouvellet and Riley and Van, Kerkhove and Mills and Blake, IM},
doi = {10.1098/rstb.2016.0371},
journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
title = {Key data for outbreak evaluation: building on the Ebola experience},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0371},
volume = {372},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Following the detection of an infectious disease outbreak, rapid epidemiological assessmentis critical to  guidean effectivepublic  health response.  To  understand  the  transmission dynamics and  potential  impact  of  an  outbreak,  several  types  of  data  are  necessary.  Here  we  build  on experience gained  inthe West  AfricanEbolaepidemic  and  prior  emerging  infectious  disease outbreaksto  set  out  a  checklist  of  data  needed  to:  1)  quantify  severity  and  transmissibility;2) characterise   heterogeneities   in   transmission   and   their   determinants;and 3)   assess   the effectiveness  of  different  interventions.We differentiate  data  needs  into  individual-leveldata (e.g.  a  detailed list  of  reported  cases),  exposure data(e.g.identifying  where  / howcases  may have  been  infected)  and populationlevel data (e.g.size/demographicsof  the  population(s)affected andwhen/where interventions were implemented). A remarkable amount of individual-level  and  exposuredata was collected during the West African Ebola epidemic,  which  allowed the assessment of (1) and (2). However,gaps in population-level data (particularly around which interventions  were  applied whenand  where)posed  challenges  to  the  assessment  of (3).Herewehighlight recurrent  data  issues, give  practical  suggestions for addressingthese  issues  and discuss priorities for improvements in data collection in future outbreaks.
AU  - Cori,A
AU  - Donnelly,CA
AU  - dorigatti
AU  - ferguson,NM
AU  - fraser
AU  - garske
AU  - jombart
AU  - Nedjati-Gilani,G
AU  - Nouvellet
AU  - Riley
AU  - Van,Kerkhove
AU  - Mills
AU  - Blake,IM
DO  - 10.1098/rstb.2016.0371
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1471-2970
TI  - Key data for outbreak evaluation: building on the Ebola experience
T2  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0371
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/44133
VL  - 372
ER  -
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