Emerging Diseases, Deadly Lessons - Preventing Future Epidemics
Insights from recent epidemics on preventing future outbreaks, exploring ecological, social, political, and economic factors in disease spread and their implications for global health security.
Measuring Social Networks for Disease and Health Behavior Dynamics
Explore innovative methods for analyzing social networks to understand disease spread and health behaviors, with insights from cutting-edge research in network science and epidemiology.
Social Networks and the Diffusion of Health Behaviors - 2012
Explore how social networks influence the spread of health behaviors, examining their impact on public health strategies and behavioral change.
Tracking and Curbing the Next Pandemic - Future Directions in Infectious Disease Research
Explore modern plagues, interdisciplinary efforts, and innovative methods for predicting and curbing pandemics through network analysis, animal studies, and advanced computational techniques.
Aging Across Scales - Evolutionary Theories and Population Thinking
Explore evolutionary theories of senescence, recent modeling insights, and the pace-shape framework to understand why some organisms age while others don't, across different lifespan scales.
Reverse Engineering Complexity - Dynamics, Architecture, and Robustness in Complex Systems
Explore robustness, tradeoffs, and feedback in complex systems through computational models. Discover applications in earthquakes, wildfires, biomaterials, infectious diseases, and more, emphasizing dynamics, architecture, and adaptation.
Toward a New Understanding of Aging, Adaptation, and the Arrow of Time
Explore the interplay between biological aging, adaptation, and time through examples from physics research, aiming to identify pathways for healthy aging and formulate a new concept of complex time.
Fractal Inequality and the Complexity of Repair - Part 1
Exploring how complex systems science can address societal inequalities, from vaccine distribution to economic opportunities. Insights on repairing structural inequities using network analysis and modeling to protect vulnerable populations.
Phylodynamics and Markov Genealogy Processes
Explore phylodynamics and Markov genealogy processes to infer disease transmission from genomic data. Learn about a unified approach using exact likelihood expressions and dynamic genealogy evolution.
On the Shape of Epidemics
Explore the patterns and dynamics of epidemic spread, examining factors that influence their shape and progression through populations.
Complexity, Privacy, and the Pandemic - Biological Mechanisms for Data Protection
Explore biological mechanisms inspiring computer algorithms to address privacy concerns during pandemics, focusing on "negative selection" for balancing data collection and privacy protection.
Effect of Universal TB Vaccination and Other Factors on Probability of Patient Death from COVID-19
Explore how universal TB vaccination, air pollution, and health expenditure impact COVID-19 survival rates across countries, with quantified probability changes by age and sex using information-theoretic methods.
Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological and Social Justice
Exploring how mathematical models can encode blind spots and create externalities, emphasizing the need for rigorous empiricism to achieve ecological and social justice through better scientific modeling.
Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions - Transmission Series Episode 5
Explore how embracing complexity in systems can lead to better interventions in various fields, from epidemiology to conservation, and improve decision-making under uncertainty.
Models of Identity Signaling
Explore mathematical models of identity signaling, examining their impact on cooperation, conflict, and social learning in complex human behavior and communication strategies.
Science in the Time of COVID - Lessons from the Pandemic
Insights from network epidemiologists on COVID-19's impact on scientific research, institutional interactions, and societal norms. Explores surprises, lasting effects, and future implications of the pandemic.
Vaccination Strategies - Prioritization, Dose Sparing, and Decisions Under Uncertainty and Inequity
Explore vaccination strategies for COVID-19, including prioritization and dose-sparing, considering uncertainties in variants, human behavior, and global inequities through mathematical models.
Testing Our Way Out of COVID-19: A Bumpy but Possible Path Forward
Explore how frequent, widespread testing with lower sensitivity could dramatically reduce COVID-19 spread and potentially end the pandemic while reopening the economy.
Epidemic Spread Through Segregated Spaces - Racial Disparities in COVID-19
Explore racial disparities in COVID-19 impact, examining structural factors and spatial segregation. Learn how to improve epidemic models by incorporating multi-scale spatial interactions and socio-economic factors.
Does the Ecology of Somatic Tissue Normally Constrain Cancer Evolution?
Exploring how energy supply to tissues affects cancer evolution, proposing that normal physiological limits on cellular energy may suppress oncogenesis, with implications for cancer risk factors and prevention.
Networks, Complexity, and Disease Dynamics
Explore the intricate relationship between network structures, complex systems, and the spread of diseases in this insightful seminar by Dirk Brockmann from Humboldt University.