The European Medicines Agency, or EMA, has announced its conditional marketing authorization of a vaccine used to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus. University of Florida researchers played an integral role in the design and analysis of trials testing the effectiveness of the vaccine, manufactured by Merck. Conditional authorization…
Dr. Natalie Exner Dean, a postdoctoral associate in the department of biostatistics at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions and the College of Medicine, and Dr. Ira Longini, a professor in the department and co-director of UF’s Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, collaborated…
The Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) is designed to introduce infectious disease researchers to modern methods of statistical analysis and mathematical modeling and to introduce statisticians and mathematical modelers to the statistical and dynamic problems posed by modern infectious disease data. The conference will take…
Vibrio cholerae bacteria. On November 2014, some members of the CSQUID team published a study on cholera transmission in Bangladesh in the PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal. Participating researchers included Jonathan Sugimoto, Eben Kenah, Elizabeth Halloran, Yang Yang, and Ira Longini. The study quantified…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Implementing a vaccine trial during an epidemic can be difficult, particularly in countries with poor transportation, limited vaccine supplies and difficulty predicting how widespread a disease may become — conditions such as those in West Africa during the recent Ebola outbreak. Now, a University of Florida Health…
Ira Longini, Jr., Ph.D., fights infectious diseases with numbers and statistics. Longini is one of the UF Emerging Pathogens Institute’s biostatistician. He uses mathematical and statistical models to research the transmission and control of infectious diseases. “We use mathematics and statistics to model epidemics, design, analyze and interpret infectious disease…
CSQUID has conducted research on the Ebola virus and projection models. For questions about our Ebola research please visit http://www.mobs-lab.org/ebola.html. …
