Negative frequency-dependent selection and asymmetrical transformation stabilise multi-strain bacterial population structures.
Harrow GL, Lees JA, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M, Corander J, Colijn C, Croucher NJ.
ISME J. 2021 Jan 06. PMID: 33408365
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Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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I am Professor of Epidemiology with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and an affiliated appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where my wet lab is located. I direct the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. I am also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
Bibliography
Nowcasting for Real-Time COVID-19 Tracking in New York City: Evaluation Study Using Reportable Disease Data From the Early Stages of the Pandemic.
Greene SK, McGough SF, Culp GM, Graf LE, Lipsitch M, Menzies NA, Kahn R.
JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2021 Jan 04. PMID: 33406053
Big data and simple models used to track the spread of COVID-19 in cities.
Ma KC, Lipsitch M.
Nature. 2021 01. 589(7840):26-28. PMID: 33173216
The Ethics of Continuing Placebo in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Trials.
Rid A, Lipsitch M, Miller FG.
JAMA. 2020 Dec 14. PMID: 33315080
Determinants of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in the developing infant nasal microbiome.
Accorsi EK, Franzosa EA, Hsu T, Joice Cordy R, Maayan-Metzger A, Jaber H, Reiss-Mandel A, Kline M, DuLong C, Lipsitch M, Regev-Yochay G, Huttenhower C.
Genome Biol. 2020 Dec 11. 21(1):301. PMID: 33308267
Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt.
Gostic KM, McGough L, Baskerville EB, Abbott S, Joshi K, Tedijanto C, Kahn R, Niehus R, Hay JA, De Salazar PM, Hellewell J, Meakin S, Munday JD, Bosse NI, Sherrat K, Thompson RN, White LF, Huisman JS, Scire J, Bonhoeffer S, Stadler T, Wallinga J, Funk S, Lipsitch M, Cobey S.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 12. 16(12):e1008409. PMID: 33301457
Model-informed COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies by age and serostatus.
Bubar KM, Reinholt K, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M, Cobey S, Grad YH, Larremore DB.
medRxiv. 2020 Dec 07. PMID: 33330882
Macrolide and Nonmacrolide Resistance with Mass Azithromycin Distribution.
Doan T, Worden L, Hinterwirth A, Arzika AM, Maliki R, Abdou A, Zhong L, Chen C, Cook C, Lebas E, O'Brien KS, Oldenburg CE, Chow ED, Porco TC, Lipsitch M, Keenan JD, Lietman TM.
N Engl J Med. 2020 11 12. 383(20):1941-1950. PMID: 33176084
The role of "spillover" in antibiotic resistance.
Olesen SW, Lipsitch M, Grad YH.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 11 17. 117(46):29063-29068. PMID: 33139558
Statistical Properties of Stepped Wedge Cluster-Randomized Trials in Infectious Disease Outbreaks.
Kennedy-Shaffer L, Lipsitch M.
Am J Epidemiol. 2020 11 02. 189(11):1324-1332. PMID: 32648891
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The latest on the coronavirus
Harvard Chan School experts offer comments and context about the coronavirus in a variety of media outlets.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Marc Lipsitch and Barry Bloom, 01/05/21
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard School of Public Health with Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, and Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research…
Harvard Chan experts featured in year’s top stories in Harvard Magazine, Harvard Gazette
Experts from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health were featured in some of the top stories of 2020 in both Harvard Magazine and the Harvard Gazette.
Pandemic response so far—and what may lie ahead
Epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch discussed a range of topics related to the coronavirus pandemic in a half-hour interview on the podcast “Deep Background with Noah Feldman.”
Marc Lipsitch, Pardis Sabeti elected to National Academy of Medicine
Two Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty members, Marc Lipsitch and Pardis Sabeti, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
