Lockdowns result in changes in human mobility which may impact the epidemiologic dynamics of SARS-CoV-2.
Kishore N, Kahn R, Martinez PP, De Salazar PM, Mahmud AS, Buckee CO.
Sci Rep. 2021 03 26. 11(1):6995. PMID: 33772076
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Rebecca Kahn is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After graduating with a BA in Public Policy and Global Health from Duke University, she worked with PEPFAR in the U.S. State Department Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator. She then worked for Partners In Health in Sierra Leone on the Ebola response and health systems strengthening programs. She earned her MS in Epidemiology in 2018 and her PhD in Population Health Sciences and Epidemiology in 2020 from Harvard. Her research focuses on using infectious disease modeling to enhance epidemic preparedness and response.
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Examining SARS-COV-2 Interventions in Residential Colleges Using an Empirical Network.
Hambridge HL, Kahn R, Onnela JP.
medRxiv. 2021 Mar 13. PMID: 33758870
Mathematical modeling to inform vaccination strategies and testing approaches for COVID-19 in nursing homes.
Kahn R, Holmdahl I, Reddy S, Jernigan J, Mina MJ, Slayton RB.
medRxiv. 2021 Mar 01. PMID: 33688668
Interpreting vaccine efficacy trial results for infection and transmission.
Lipsitch M, Kahn R.
medRxiv. 2021 Feb 28. PMID: 33655276
How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.
Accorsi EK, Qiu X, Rumpler E, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Kahn R, Joshi K, Goldstein E, Stensrud MJ, Niehus R, Cevik M, Lipsitch M.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2021 Feb. 36(2):179-196. PMID: 33634345
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
Variation in human mobility and its impact on the risk of future COVID-19 outbreaks in Taiwan.
Chang MC, Kahn R, Li YA, Lee CS, Buckee CO, Chang HH.
BMC Public Health. 2021 01 27. 21(1):226. PMID: 33504339
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
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
Ensemble forecast modeling for the design of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trials.
Dean NE, Pastore Y Piontti A, Madewell ZJ, Cummings DAT, Hitchings MDT, Joshi K, Kahn R, Vespignani A, Halloran ME, Longini IM.
Vaccine. 2020 10 27. 38(46):7213-7216. PMID: 33012602