http://www.brookings.edu/experts/cummingsd.aspx?rssid=cummingsd Brookings Experts Feed Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:33:32 GMT en http://webfeeds.brookings.edu/~r/BrookingsRSS/experts/cummingsd/~3/gy_q7h5freA/10dynamics_epstein.aspx <img src="http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Images/FeaturetteSmall/I/IJ IO/infectiousdisease001_fs.jpg?bc=Transparent&mh=125&mw=125" alt="Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and Computational Explorations " border="0"/><br>In classical mathematical epidemiology, individuals do not adapt their contact behavior during epidemics. They do not endogenously engage, for example, in social distancing based on fear. Yet, adaptive behavior is well-documented in true epidemics. Joshua M. Epstein, Jon Parker, Derek Cummings, and Ross A. Hammond explore the effect of including such behavior in models of epidemic dynamics. &nbsp;<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrookingsRSS/experts/cummingsd/~4/gy_q7h5freA" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT e9fad134-2149-455f-a729-302c5859629b http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2007/10dynamics_epstein.aspx?rssid=cummingsd http://webfeeds.brookings.edu/~r/BrookingsRSS/experts/cummingsd/~3/VNrfOOmEW2c/towardacontainmentstrategyforsmallpoxbioterror.aspx <img src="http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Press/Books/2004/towardacontainmentstrategyforsmallpoxbioterror/towardacontainmentstrategyforsmallpoxbioterror.gif?bc=Transparent&mh=79&mw=53" border="0"/><br>This book describes the results of a cutting-edge computer model used to simulate a smallpox epidemic in a two-town county. By providing public health policymakers with a variety of feasible vaccination and isolation strategies, these models are play<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrookingsRSS/experts/cummingsd/~4/VNrfOOmEW2c" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT 4e0afbf6-ed7b-4358-9854-7bb14f19b14c http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2004/towardacontainmentstrategyforsmallpoxbioterror.aspx?rssid=cummingsd