Urban mosquito
(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.
Publications
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Assessing the interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments
Scientific Reports. 2019-11-15. Vol. 9, p. 16911. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-53127-z.Please note that the publication lists from Infoscience integrated into the EPFL website, lab or people pages are frozen following the launch of the new version of platform. The owners of these pages are invited to recreate their publication list from Infoscience. For any assistance, please consult the Infoscience help or contact support.