PLoS Medicine (Jun 2010)

Studies needed to address public health challenges of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: insights from modeling.

  • Maria D Van Kerkhove,
  • Tommi Asikainen,
  • Niels G Becker,
  • Steven Bjorge,
  • Jean-Claude Desenclos,
  • Thais dos Santos,
  • Christophe Fraser,
  • Gabriel M Leung,
  • Marc Lipsitch,
  • Ira M Longini,
  • Emma S McBryde,
  • Cathy E Roth,
  • David K Shay,
  • Derek J Smith,
  • Jacco Wallinga,
  • Peter J White,
  • Neil M Ferguson,
  • Steven Riley,
  • WHO Informal Network for Mathematical Modelling for Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 (Working Group on Data Needs)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000275
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 6
p. e1000275

Abstract

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In light of the 2009 influenza pandemic and potential future pandemics, Maria Van Kerkhove and colleagues anticipate six public health challenges and the data needed to support sound public health decision making.