The Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering COVID-19 Dashboard: data collection process, challenges faced, and lessons learned

E Dong, J Ratcliff, TD Goyea, A Katz, R Lau… - The lancet infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary On Jan 22, 2020, a day after the USA reported its first COVID-19 case, the Johns
Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE) launched the …

An evaluation of prospective COVID-19 modelling studies in the USA: from data to science translation

K Nixon, S Jindal, F Parker, NG Reich… - The Lancet Digital …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Infectious disease modelling can serve as a powerful tool for situational awareness and
decision support for policy makers. However, COVID-19 modelling efforts faced many …

The socio-spatial determinants of COVID-19 diffusion: the impact of globalisation, settlement characteristics and population

T Sigler, S Mahmuda, A Kimpton, J Loginova… - Globalization and …, 2021 - Springer
Background COVID-19 is an emergent infectious disease that has spread geographically to
become a global pandemic. While much research focuses on the epidemiological and …

Survey on privacy-preserving techniques for microdata publication

T Carvalho, N Moniz, P Faria, L Antunes - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The exponential growth of collected, processed, and shared microdata has given rise to
concerns about individuals' privacy. As a result, laws and regulations have emerged to …

A framework for research linking weather, climate and COVID-19

BF Zaitchik, N Sweijd, J Shumake-Guillemot… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Early studies of weather, seasonality, and environmental influences on COVID-19 have
yielded inconsistent and confusing results. To provide policy-makers and the public with …

Digital dashboards visualizing public health data: a systematic review

A Schulze, F Brand, J Geppert, GF Böl - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Public health is not only threatened by diseases, pandemics, or epidemics. It is
also challenged by deficits in the communication of health information. The current COVID …

Emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.620 with variant of concern-like mutations and deletions

G Dudas, SL Hong, BI Potter… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Distinct SARS-CoV-2 lineages, discovered through various genomic surveillance
initiatives, have emerged during the pandemic following unprecedented reductions in …

The challenges of big data for research ethics committees: A qualitative Swiss study

A Ferretti, M Ienca, MR Velarde… - Journal of Empirical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Big data trends in health research challenge the oversight mechanism of the Research
Ethics Committees (RECs). The traditional standards of research quality and the mandate of …

Real-time COVID-19 forecasting: challenges and opportunities of model performance and translation

K Nixon, S Jindal, F Parker, M Marshall… - The Lancet Digital …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The COVID-19 pandemic brought mathematical modelling into the spotlight, as scientists
rushed to use data to understand transmission patterns and disease severity, and to …

Surveillance of emerging infectious diseases for biosecurity

R Hao, Y Liu, W Shen, R Zhao, B Jiang, H Song… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Emerging infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, continue to pose significant threats to
human beings and their surroundings. In addition, biological warfare, bioterrorism, biological …