On the Effect of Age on the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Households, Schools, and the Community.
Goldstein E, Lipsitch M, Cevik M.
J Infect Dis. 2021 02 13. 223(3):362-369. PMID: 33119738
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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
Estimating epidemiologic dynamics from cross-sectional viral load distributions.
Hay JA, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Kanjilal S, Lennon NJ, Gabriel SB, Lipsitch M, Mina MJ.
medRxiv. 2021 Feb 13. PMID: 33594381
Potential Biases Arising From Epidemic Dynamics in Observational Seroprotection Studies.
Kahn R, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Grad YH, Robins JM, Lipsitch M.
Am J Epidemiol. 2021 02 01. 190(2):328-335. PMID: 32870977
Near real-time surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with incomplete data.
De Salazar PM, Lu F, Hay JA, Gómez-Barroso D, Fernández-Navarro P, Martínez E, Astray-Mochales J, Amillategui R, García-Fulgueiras A, Chirlaque MD, Sánchez-Migallón A, Larrauri A, Sierra MJ, Lipsitch M, Simón F, Santillana M, Hernán MA.
medRxiv. 2021 Jan 26. PMID: 33532788
Leveraging Vaccines to Reduce Antibiotic Use and Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance: a WHO Action Framework.
Vekemans J, Hasso-Agopsowicz M, Kang G, Hausdorff WP, Fiore A, Tayler E, Klemm EJ, Laxminarayan R, Srikantiah P, Friede M, Lipsitch M.
Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Jan 25. PMID: 33493317
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.
Science. 2021 Jan 21. PMID: 33479118
The Ethics of Continuing Placebo in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Trials.
Rid A, Lipsitch M, Miller FG.
JAMA. 2021 01 19. 325(3):219-220. PMID: 33315080
Nowcasting for Real-Time COVID-19 Tracking in New York City: An Evaluation Using Reportable Disease Data From Early in the Pandemic.
Greene SK, McGough SF, Culp GM, Graf LE, Lipsitch M, Menzies NA, Kahn R.
JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2021 01 15. 7(1):e25538. PMID: 33406053
Estimating internationally imported cases during the early COVID-19 pandemic.
Menkir TF, Chin T, Hay JA, Surface ED, De Salazar PM, Buckee CO, Watts A, Khan K, Sherbo R, Yan AWC, Mina MJ, Lipsitch M, Niehus R.
Nat Commun. 2021 01 12. 12(1):311. PMID: 33436574
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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The latest on the coronavirus
Harvard Chan School experts offer comments and context about the coronavirus in a variety of media outlets.
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine works well outside of clinical trials, study finds
Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine is proving as effective in real-world settings as it did in clinical testing, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) co-authored by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
After a long pandemic year, experts look to the future
Harvard Chan School experts offer advice on how the new Biden administration can best tackle the pandemic.
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.