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SMART2

SMART2

Surveillance, Monitoring Absenteeism & Respiratory Transmission in Schools

The SMART2 study aims to improve the understanding of how influenza, and other respiratory viruses, spread between school children and the community. Using a mix of school-based and cohort surveillance, we hope to provide information on the conduct of optimal surveillance in scchool-based populations to improve prediction of influenza activity in the community. We will use traditional time series modeling approaches and Hidden Markov Models to model the temporal dynamics of influenza activity in the community as a function of cause-specific school absence and other covariates. We will also use these models to predict the future course of influenza in the school-aged population as a function of cause specific school absences in earlier time periods. Surveillance is conducted in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area in close collaboration with staff at the University of Pittsburgh.

Principal Investigator

Derek Cummings Professor

Funders

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Collaborators

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Publications

Social Contact Networks and Mixing among Students in K-12 Schools in Pittsburgh, PA.
Guclu H, Read J, Vukotich CJ Jr, Galloway DD, Gao H, Rainey JJ, Uzicanin A, Zimmer SM, Cummings DA.
PLoS One, 2016: 11: e0151139, 10.1371/journal.pone.0151139
Household transmission of influenza A and B in a school-based study of non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Azman AS, Stark JH, Althouse BM, Vukotich CJ Jr, Stebbins S, Burke DS, Cummings DA.
Epidemics, 2013: 5: 181-6, 10.1016/j.epidem.2013.09.001
Reduction in the incidence of influenza A but not influenza B associated with use of hand sanitizer and cough hygiene in schools: a randomized controlled trial.
Stebbins S, Cummings DA, Stark JH, Vukotich C, Mitruka K, Thompson W, Rinaldo C, Roth L, Wagner M, Wisniewski SR, Dato V, Eng H, Burke DS.
Pediatr Infect Dis J, 2011: 30: 921-6, 10.1097/INF.0b013e3182218656
Sensitivity and specificity of rapid influenza testing of children in a community setting.
Stebbins S, Stark JH, Prasad R, Thompson WW, Mitruka K, Rinaldo C, Vukotich CJ Jr, Cummings DA.
Influenza Other Respir Viruses, 2011: 5: 104-9, 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2010.00171.x
Modeling Competing Infectious Pathogens from a Bayesian Perspective: Application to Influenza Studies with Incomplete Laboratory Results.
Yang Y, Halloran ME, Daniels MJ, Longini IM Jr, Burke DS, Cummings DA.
J Am Stat Assoc, 2010: 105: 1310-1322., 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09581

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Tel: +1 352-273-6555

Email: info [at] ufiddynamics.org

Infectious Disease Dynamics Group
c/o Derek Cummings
University of Florida
Department of Biology
P.O. Box 118525
Gainesville, FL 32611

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