A research project called MAPPS is convening a wide array of community members to better understand how social mixing contributes to virus spread, and how that may inform future pandemic response.
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International Health Institute
Mark Lurie, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology
Biography
Infectious disease epidemiology; HIV/AIDS; sexually transmitted infections; silicosis and tuberculosis; the role of migration in the spread of HIV; antiretroviral therapy; South Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; pandemic prevention and prediction, mobility and social mixing
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The Providence Journal (Paywalled)
New Brown University research aims to predict, prevent pandemics
Brown School of Public Health epidemiologist Mark Lurie discusses the Center for Mobility Analysis for Pandemic Prevention Strategies, or MAPPS. The goal of MAPPS is to stop a deadly disease outbreak from becoming a pandemic by accurately predicting how the outbreak left unchecked might unfold, allowing policymakers and medical and public-health officials to counter the outbreak long before it reaches crisis stage. (Paywalled article)
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As COVID-19 swept across the nation, most states went into lockdown — new research and state-by-state data suggests that stay-at-home orders helped slow the pandemic significantly.
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The New York Times
Mark Lurie discusses RI’s aggressive testing with the NY Times
Rhode Island gives the appearance of a state where the coronavirus is a fire raging, the average number of daily infections more than quadrupling since the start of this month. The reality is more complicated and encouraging, as state health workers have tested more residents per capita in Rhode Island than in any other state, leading them to discover many infections that might have gone overlooked elsewhere.
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As the novel coronavirus spreads across the world, Professor Mark Lurie of the Brown University Department of Epidemiology helps explain the term and its use in understanding the virus.
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The New York Times
Mark Lurie speaks to the NY Times about interpreting coronavirus updates
Professor Mark Lurie of the Brown University Department of Epidemiology on making sense of COVID-19 updates in a NY Times article.
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