Urban mosquito
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(c) Wolfgang Hasselmann
Project team:
Prof. Claudia R. Binder, Emanuele Massaro – EPFL / HERUS
Prof. Andrea Rinaldo, Damiano Pasetto – EPFL / ECHO
Funding: ENAC Discovery Grant
Duration: 2018 – 2019
Modelling analyses of mosquito-borne diseases help guiding the response to the disease spreading by evaluating the cost-effectiveness impact of a wide spectrum of possible intervention options, ranging from mosquito control strategies to the identification of disease hotspots in urban environments.
This project aims at improving the accuracy of Agent-Based Models (ABMs) by considering a novel approach to compute the force of infection based on both mobility pathways and vectors’ densities, with the idea that daily commuters have larger exposure when their pathways cross mosquito-infested areas.
The goal of this project is to understand, measure, and simulate the interplay between urban human mobility and mosquito-borne diseases (in the specific, Dengue) and to suggest safer commuting pathways obtained through optimal control strategies.