Mobility-based synthetic contact matrices offer a promising alternative for real-time pandemic response modeling. How do they compare with traditional empirical contact matrices? We address this question in our latest study, now published in Nature Communications ⬇️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Our work about extending contact matrices beyond age, accounting for socio-economic dimensions, is finally published! Here, we analyse social contact data in Switzerland. Happy to see this output from my research period at @ispm.unibe.ch w/ @calthaus.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Individual and neighborhood based socioeconomic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control - Communications Medicine

Di Domenico et al. develop a method to reconstruct contact matrices fully stratified by age, education level and socioeconomic position. Results show that accounting for contact assortativity with soc...

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Our analysis of modelling practices, data use, and science-policy interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic is out on @eurosurveillance.org this week. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... Wonderful collaborative effort conducted in the context of mood-h2020.eu Read the thread below 👇

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Esther van Kleef@esthervk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Really great to see that our paper is now officially published in the latest #Eurosurveillance. As it was accepted with only minor edits, this earlier post still captures the key messages: tiny.cc/036u001.

Really great to see that our paper is now officially published in the latest #Eurosurveillance. As it was accepted with only minor edits, this earlier post still captures the key messages: tiny.cc/036u001.

Eurosurveillance journal@eurosurveillance.org · 11mo ago

Our new issue is out, and includes research on 🦠 surveillance of iGAS in European countries and factors associated with severe iGAS and death in children & adolescents 📈 how COVID-19 modelling supported public health decisions in Europe Read it here 🔗 www.eurosurveillance.org/content/euro...

📣 Call for Abstracts! 📣 Join us at BehEpi Satellite, part of CCS 2025 in Siena, Italy (Sept 3–5). We’re exploring how human behavior influences epidemic dynamics. 🔗 More info and submission at: www.epicx-lab.com/behepi-satel... 📅 Deadline: June 13, 2025 #CCS25

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Applicants are invited to prepare a 1-page PDF (500 words max). Applications are now open and will close on 13 June 2025 at 17:00 CEST time.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic emergency receded, we systematically reviewed modeling practices, data provisioning, and sharing among the modeling teams in the MOOD European consortium Our pre-print is finally out www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Check out the thread by @esthervk.bsky.social below👇

Esther van Kleef@esthervk.bsky.social · last yr.

How should we redesign data and modelling ecosystems for future crises? NEW PREPRINT: Drawing on survey insights from modelling teams across Europe, we explored how modelling practices, data-sharing, science-policy links, and evidence use evolved during the pandemic: tinyurl.com/4mptshh7 1/5

We have a new pre-print out, extending traditional age-stratified contact matrices using Swiss data, w/ Martina Reichmuth and @calthaus.bsky.social "Individual-based and neighbourhood-based socio-economic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great work about synthetic contact matrices derived from mobility data by @lauradidomenico.bsky.social @paolobosetti.bsky.social @vcolizza.bsky.social and coauthors www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices: a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling

Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted social mixing patterns, creating a need for updated mathematical models to guide an effective response. Accurately...

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