In this brief, we explore the current evidence around school closures in Europe and North America and provide an update on practice from ...

For decades academics and policy makers have warned of the risks of a viral pandemic with effects as devastating as the Spanish Flu in 19...

Sharing our new blog from the British Medical Journal. Solid public health decision making requires engagement of a wide range of discipl...

Please read this presentation to learn more! Read more Models applied to LMICs

We did this analysis last week and forgot to post. Currently updating it based on new data. Age: - In NYC, 73% of deaths were in people ...

Given the prevalence of obesity in the US (40% over age 20 - which is correlated with SES) and numbers of elderly in facilities (1.3M) we...

A number of actors that are big on the global health scene seem to have taken over our domestic response as well. Models developed by Chr...

It seems like NYC is finally getting around to surveillance. We did some work for the state earlier in April but they were unconvinced by...

Perhaps, at last, some hope that public health colleagues may be coming back to their senses. See this recent decision that the FDA will ...

Sharing our new post from the Council on Foreign Relations These strategies, now being applied across a range of contexts, have never bee...

Corona virus serological self-test kits were mailed to1,000 residents of the Swedish capital Stockholm over the Easter weekend by the Sto...

Lack of surveillance testing prevents an understanding of the extent to which the virus is already spread among populations. Evidence show...

Sweden has reviewed the results from the contact tracing done on the first cases of coronavirus in the country. Swedish Radio News report...

Check out our piece for the World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/we-could-be-vastly-overestimating-the-death-rate-...

As of April 1, there has been 832 confirmed cases and 28 deaths in Rio de Janeiro, a state of 16.5 million inhabitants. Actual numbers ar...

Here is the story. And letting you know that in the next day or so there will be a model coming out of NYU and Columbia with predictions ...

A report in the Swedish Radio (published 26 March 2020) tells us that the number of Swedes who will show up at hospital and test positive...

Two models were published today. One from Imperial College in the UK which is a revision of the model we wrote previously.. They have dow...

While models are important tools in the toolbox – and can be helpful for decision making – they are math exercises - built around a serie...

Following most countries in Europe, Finland is enforcing a 19-point list of emergency legislation that includes nationwide school, educat...