Publications

Murayama H, Nishi A, Endo A.
Different time scales used for sexual partner surveys pose a challenge in modelling dynamics of sexually transmitted infections
medRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Dec 28:2023.12.25.23300526. doi: 10.1101/2023.12.25.23300526.
Tewari P, Ma P, Gan G, Janhavi A, Choo ELW, Koo JR, Dickens BL, Lim JT.
Non-linear associations between meteorological factors, ambient air pollutants and major mosquito-borne diseases in Thailand
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Dec 27;17(12):e0011763. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011763. eCollection 2023 Dec.
Kundu R, Datta J, Ray D, Mishra S, Bhattacharyya R, Zimmermann L, Mukherjee B.
Comparative impact assessment of COVID-19 policy interventions in five South Asian countries using reported and estimated unreported death counts during 2020-2021
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023 Dec 27;3(12):e0002063. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002063. eCollection 2023.
Wee LE, Lim JT, Tay AT, Pang D, Dickens B, Chiew CJ, Ong B, Lye DCB, Tan KB.
Long-term neuropsychiatric sequelae of Delta versus Omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Apr;30(4):531-539. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.12.019. Epub 2023 Dec 22.
Pronyk PM, de Alwis R, Rockett R, Basile K, Boucher YF, Pang V, Sessions O, Getchell M, Golubchik T, Lam C, Lin R, Mak TM, Marais B, Twee-Hee Ong R, Clapham HE, Wang L, Cahyorini Y, Polotan FGM, Rukminiati Y, Sim E, Suster C, Smith GJD, Sintchenko V.
Advancing pathogen genomics in resource-limited settings
Cell Genom. 2023 Nov 17;3(12):100443. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100443. eCollection 2023 Dec 13.
Fung T, Clapham HE, Chisholm RA.
Temporary Cross-Immunity as a Plausible Driver of Asynchronous Cycles of Dengue Serotypes
Bull Math Biol. 2023 Nov 14;85(12):124. doi: 10.1007/s11538-023-01226-4.
Naserrudin NA, Lin PYP, Monroe A, Baumann SE, Adhikari B, Miller AC, Sato S, Fornace KM, Culleton R, Cheah PY, Hod R, Jeffree MS, Ahmed K, Hassan MR.
Disentangling the intersection of inequities with health and malaria exposure: key lessons from rural communities in Northern Borneo
Malar J. 2023 Nov 9;22(1):343. doi: 10.1186/s12936-023-04750-9.
Murayama H, Endo A, Yonekura S.
Estimation of waning vaccine effectiveness from population-level surveillance data in multi-variant epidemics
Epidemics. 2023 Dec;45:100726. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100726. Epub 2023 Nov 4.
Chan CMJ, Dickens BSL, Chong MF.
Understanding knowledge, attitudes and behaviours related to dietary sodium intake in a multi-ethnic population in Singapore
Public Health Nutr. 2023 Dec;26(12):2802-2814. doi: 10.1017/S1368980023002422. Epub 2023 Nov 3.
Lim AY, Jafari Y, Caldwell JM, Clapham HE, Gaythorpe KAM, Hussain-Alkhateeb L, Johansson MA, Kraemer MUG, Maude RJ, McCormack CP, Messina JP, Mordecai EA, Rabe IB, Reiner RC Jr, Ryan SJ, Salje H, Semenza JC, Rojas DP, Brady OJ.
A systematic review of the data, methods and environmental covariates used to map Aedes-borne arbovirus transmission risk
BMC Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 20;23(1):708. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08717-8.
Cooper BS, Evans S, Jafari Y, Pham TM, Mo Y, Lim C, Pritchard MG, Pople D, Hall V, Stimson J, Eyre DW, Read JM, Donnelly CA, Horby P, Watson C, Funk S, Robotham JV, Knight GM.
The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England
Nature. 2023 Nov;623(7985):132-138. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06634-z. Epub 2023 Oct 18.
Naserrudin NA, Jiee SF, Habil B, Jantim A, Mohamed AFB, Dony JJF, Ibrahim SSA, Fornace KM, Hassan MR, Jeffree MS, Hod R, Culleton R, Ahmed K.
The public health response to a Plasmodium malariae outbreak in Penampang district, Sabah during a COVID-19 movement control order
Malar J. 2023 Oct 3;22(1):292. doi: 10.1186/s12936-023-04693-1.
Fornace KM, Drakeley CJ, Lindblade KA, Jelip J, Ahmed K.
Zoonotic malaria requires new policy approaches to malaria elimination
Nat Commun. 2023 Sep 16;14(1):5750. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41546-6.
Tewari P, Guo P, Dickens B, Ma P, Bansal S, Lim JT.
Associations between Dengue Incidence, Ecological Factors, and Anthropogenic Factors in Singapore
Viruses. 2023 Sep 13;15(9):1917. doi: 10.3390/v15091917.
Sheikh N, Sultana M, Sarker AR, Morton A.
Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis
Popul Health Metr. 2023 Sep 5;21(1):12. doi: 10.1186/s12963-023-00312-y.
De Foo C, Wu S, Amin F, Rajaraman N, Cook AR, Legido-Quigley H.
A qualitative exploration of factors that influence the uptake of tuberculosis services by low-skilled migrant workers in Singapore
BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Sep 2;23(1):943. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09938-y.
Jin S, Dickens BL, Lim JT, Cook AR.
EpiMix: A novel method to estimate effective reproduction number
Infect Dis Model. 2023 Jun 20;8(3):704-716. doi: 10.1016/j.idm.2023.06.002. eCollection 2023 Sep.
Prem K, Choi YH, Bénard É, Burger EA, Hadley L, Laprise JF, Regan MC, Drolet M, Sy S, Abbas K, Portnoy A, Kim JJ, Brisson M, Jit M.
Global impact and cost-effectiveness of one-dose versus two-dose human papillomavirus vaccination schedules: a comparative modelling analysis
BMC Med. 2023 Aug 28;21(1):313. doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-02988-3.
Wong YHM, Lim JT, Griffiths J, Lee B, Maliki D, Thompson J, Wong M, Chae SR, Teoh YL, Ho ZJM, Lee V, Cook AR, Tay M, Wong JCC, Ng LC.
Positive association of SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater and reported COVID-19 cases in Singapore – A study across three populations
Sci Total Environ. 2023 Dec 1;902:166446. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166446. Epub 2023 Aug 19.
Park SH, Lee YQ, Müller-Riemenschneider F, Dickens BSL, van Dam RM.
Acculturation as a Determinant of Obesity and Related Lifestyle Behaviors in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population
Nutrients. 2023 Aug 17;15(16):3619. doi: 10.3390/nu15163619.
Mo Y, Ding Y, Cao Y, Hopkins J, Ashley EA, Waithira N, Wannapinij P, Lee SJ, Ling CL, Hamers RL, Roberts T, Lubell Y, Karkey A, Akech S, Lissauer S, Opintan J, Okeke I, Eremin S, Tornimbene B, Hsu LY, Thwaites L, Lam MY, Pham NT, Pham TK, Teo J, Kwa AL, Marimuthu K, Ng OT, Vasoo S, Kitsaran S, Anunnatsiri S, Kosalaraksa P, Chotiprasitsakul D, Santanirand P, Plongla R, Chua HH, Tiong XT, Wong KJ, Ponnampalavanar SSS, Sulaiman HB, Mazlan MZ, Salmuna ZN, Rajahram GS, Zaili MZBM, Francis JR, Sarmento N, Guterres H, Oakley T, Yan J, Tilman A, Khalid MOR, Hashmi M, Mahmood SF, Dhiloo AK, Fatima A, Lubis IND, Wijaya H, Abad CL, Roman AD, Lazarte CCM, Mamun GMS, Asli R, Momin MHFBHA, Nyamdavaa K, Gurjav U, Bory S, Varghese GM, Gupta L, Tantia P, Sinto R, Doi Y, Khanal B, Malijan G, Lazaro J, Gunasekara S, Withanage S, Liu PY, Xiao Y, Wang M, Paterson DL, van Doorn HR, Turner P.
ACORN (A Clinically-Oriented Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network) II: protocol for case based antimicrobial resistance surveillance
Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Aug 16;8:179. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19210.2. eCollection 2023.
Ko YK, Furuse Y, Otani K, Yamauchi M, Ninomiya K, Saito M, Imamura T, Cook AR, Ahiko T, Fujii S, Mori Y, Suzuki E, Yamada K, Ashino Y, Yamashita H, Kato Y, Mizuta K, Suzuki M, Oshitani H.
Time-varying overdispersion of SARS-CoV-2 transmission during the periods when different variants of concern were circulating in Japan
Sci Rep. 2023 Aug 14;13(1):13230. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38007-x.
Hawryluk I, Mishra S, Flaxman S, Bhatt S, Mellan TA.
Application of referenced thermodynamic integration to Bayesian model selection
PLoS One. 2023 Aug 14;18(8):e0289889. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289889. eCollection 2023.
Byrne I, William T, Chua TH, Patterson C, Hall T, Tan M, Chitnis C, Adams J, Singh SK, Grignard L, Tetteh KKA, Fornace KM, Drakeley CJ.
Serological evaluation of risk factors for exposure to malaria in a pre-elimination setting in Malaysian Borneo
Sci Rep. 2023 Aug 10;13(1):12998. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-39670-w.
Katsiferis A, Bhatt S, Mortensen LH, Mishra S, Jensen MK, Westendorp RGJ.
Machine learning models of healthcare expenditures predicting mortality: A cohort study of spousal bereaved Danish individuals
PLoS One. 2023 Aug 7;18(8):e0289632. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289632. eCollection 2023.
Katsiferis A, Mortensen LH, Khurana MP, Mishra S, Jensen MK, Bhatt S.
Predicting mortality risk after a fall in older adults using health care spending patterns: a population-based cohort study
Age Ageing. 2023 Aug 1;52(8):afad159. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afad159.
Tuot S, Sim JW, Nagashima-Hayashi M, Chhoun P, Teo AKJ, Prem K, Yi S.
What are the determinants of antiretroviral therapy adherence among stable people living with HIV? A cross-sectional study in Cambodia
AIDS Res Ther. 2023 Jul 14;20(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s12981-023-00544-w.
Fornace KM, Zorello Laporta G, Vythilingham I, Chua TH, Ahmed K, Jeyaprakasam NK, de Castro Duarte AMR, Amir A, Phang WK, Drakeley C, Sallum MAM, Lau YL.
Simian malaria: a narrative review on emergence, epidemiology and threat to global malaria elimination
Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 Dec;23(12):e520-e532. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00298-0. Epub 2023 Jul 13.
Naserrudin NA, Lin PYP, Monroe A, Culleton R, Baumann SE, Sato S, Adhikari B, Fornace KM, Hod R, Jeffree MS, Ahmed K, Hassan MR.
Exploring barriers to and facilitators of malaria prevention practices: a photovoice study with rural communities at risk to Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in Sabah, Malaysia
BMC Public Health. 2023 Jul 10;23(1):1316. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16173-x.
Teo AKJ, Morishita F, Islam T, Viney K, Ong CWM, Kato S, Kim H, Liu Y, Oh KH, Yoshiyama T, Ohkado A, Rahevar K, Kawatsu L, Yanagawa M, Prem K, Yi S, Tran HTG, Marais BJ.
Tuberculosis in older adults: challenges and best practices in the Western Pacific Region
Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2023 Apr 20;36:100770. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100770. eCollection 2023 Jul.
Luangasanatip N, Painter C, Pan-Ngum W, Saralamba S, Wichaita T, White L, Aguas R, Clapham H, Wang Y, Isaranuwatchai W, Teerawattananon Y.
How to model the impact of vaccines for policymaking when the characteristics are uncertain: A case study in Thailand prior to the vaccine rollout during the COVID-19 pandemic
Vaccine. 2023 Jul 25;41(33):4854-4860. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.06.055. Epub 2023 Jun 20.
Mo Y, Oonsivilai M, Lim C, Niehus R, Cooper BS.
Implications of reducing antibiotic treatment duration for antimicrobial resistance in hospital settings: A modelling study and meta-analysis
PLoS Med. 2023 Jun 15;20(6):e1004013. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004013. eCollection 2023 Jun.
Sun Y, Koo JR, Park M, Yi H, Dickens BL, Cook AR.
Use of Bluetooth contact tracing technology to model COVID-19 quarantine policies in high-risk closed populations
Digit Health. 2023 Jun 8;9:20552076231178418. doi: 10.1177/20552076231178418. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.
Choo ELW, Janhavi A, Koo JR, Yim SHL, Dickens BL, Lim JT.
Association between ambient air pollutants and upper respiratory tract infection and pneumonia disease burden in Thailand from 2000 to 2022: a high frequency ecological analysis
BMC Infect Dis. 2023 Jun 6;23(1):379. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08185-0.
Lim JT, Choo ELW, Janhavi A, Tan KB, Abisheganaden J, Dickens B.
Density forecasting of conjunctivitis burden using high-dimensional environmental time series data
Epidemics. 2023 Sep;44:100694. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100694. Epub 2023 Jun 3.
Trujillano F, Garay GJ, Alatrista-Salas H, Byrne I, Nunez-Del-Prado M, Chan K, Manrique E, Johnson E, Apollinaire N, Kouame Kouakou P, Oumbouke WA, Tiono AB, Guelbeogo MW, Lines J, Carrasco-Escobar G, Fornace K.
Mapping Malaria Vector Habitats in West Africa: Drone Imagery and Deep Learning Analysis for Targeted Vector Surveillance
Remote Sens (Basel). 2023 May 26;15(11):2775. doi: 10.3390/rs15112775.
Lee KY, Dabak SV, Kong VH, Park M, Kwok SLL, Silzle M, Rachatan C, Cook A, Passanante A, Pertwee E, Wu Z, Elkin JA, Larson HJ, Lau EHY, Leung K, Wu JT, Lin L.
Effectiveness of chatbots on COVID vaccine confidence and acceptance in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore
NPJ Digit Med. 2023 May 25;6(1):96. doi: 10.1038/s41746-023-00843-6.
Lim NW, Lim JT, Dickens BL.
Border Control for Infectious Respiratory Disease Pandemics: A Modelling Study for H1N1 and Four Strains of SARS-CoV-2
Viruses. 2023 Apr 16;15(4):978. doi: 10.3390/v15040978.
Lison A, Banholzer N, Sharma M, Mindermann S, Unwin HJT, Mishra S, Stadler T, Bhatt S, Ferguson NM, Brauner J, Vach W.
Effectiveness assessment of non-pharmaceutical interventions: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
Lancet Public Health. 2023 Apr;8(4):e311-e317. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00046-4.
Katsiferis A, Bhatt S, Mortensen LH, Mishra S, Westendorp RGJ.
Sex differences in health care expenditures and mortality after spousal bereavement: A register-based Danish cohort study
PLoS One. 2023 Mar 22;18(3):e0282892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282892. eCollection 2023.
Ng OT, Koh V, Chiew CJ, Marimuthu K, Thevasagayam NM, Mak TM, Chua JK, Hui Ong SS, Lim YK, Ferdous Z, Khairunnisa Bte Johari A, I-Cheng Chen M, Maurer-Stroh S, Cui L, Pin Lin RT, Tan KB, Cook AR, Leo PY, Lee PVJM.
Erratum to “Impact of delta variant and vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 secondary attack rate among household close contacts” [The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific 17 (2021) 100299]
Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2023 Apr;33:100748. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100748. Epub 2023 Mar 17.
Wahab MT, Tan RKJ, Cook AR, Prem K.
Impact of including boys in the national school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme in Singapore: A modelling-based cost-effectiveness analysis
Vaccine. 2023 Mar 17;41(12):1934-1942. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.02.025. Epub 2023 Feb 14.
Pung R, Clapham HE, Russell TW; CMMID COVID-19 Working Group; Lee VJ, Kucharski AJ.
Relative role of border restrictions, case finding and contact tracing in controlling SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of undetected transmission: a mathematical modelling study
BMC Med. 2023 Mar 16;21(1):97. doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-02802-0.
Teo AKJ, Morishita F, Prem K, Eng S, An Y, Huot CY, Khun KE, Tieng S, Deng S, Tuot S, Yi S.
Where are the missing people affected by tuberculosis? A programme review of patient-pathway and cascade of care to optimise tuberculosis case-finding, treatment and prevention in Cambodia
BMJ Glob Health. 2023 Mar;8(3):e010994. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010994.
Quaye SED, Cheng Y, Tan RKJ, Koo JR, Prem K, Teo AKJ, Cook AR.
Application of the network scale-up method to estimate the sizes of key populations for HIV in Singapore using online surveys
J Int AIDS Soc. 2023 Mar;26(3):e25973. doi: 10.1002/jia2.25973.
Johnson E, Campos-Cerqueira M, Jumail A, Yusni ASA, Salgado-Lynn M, Fornace K.
Applications and advances in acoustic monitoring for infectious disease epidemiology
Trends Parasitol. 2023 May;39(5):386-399. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.01.008. Epub 2023 Feb 24.
Lou J, Lim NW, Cai CGX, Dickens BSL, Huynh VA, Wee HL.
Cost benefit analysis of alternative testing and quarantine policies for travelers for infection control: A case study of Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic
Front Public Health. 2023 Feb 23;11:1101986. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1101986. eCollection 2023.
Cai CGX, Lim NW, Huynh VA, Ananthakrishnan A, Dabak SV, Dickens BSL, Faradiba D, Kc S, Morton A, Park M, Rachatan C, Sittimart M, Wee HL, Lou J, Teerawattananon Y.
Economic Analysis of Border Control Policies during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Modelling Study to Inform Cross-Border Travel Policy between Singapore and Thailand
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 23;20(5):4011. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054011.
Lim JT, Tan KB, Abisheganaden J, Dickens BL.
Forecasting upper respiratory tract infection burden using high-dimensional time series data and forecast combinations
PLoS Comput Biol. 2023 Feb 7;19(2):e1010892. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010892. eCollection 2023 Feb.
Fernandez SA, Sun H, Dickens BL, Ng LC, Cook AR, Lim JT.
Features of the urban environment associated with Aedes aegypti abundance in high-rise public apartments in Singapore: An environmental case-control study
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Feb 2;17(2):e0011075. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011075. eCollection 2023 Feb.
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