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Cécile Viboud is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the epidemiology and modeling of infectious diseases, with a significant emphasis on COVID-19 and respiratory viral infections.

The main fields of study for this scientist include Medicine and Mathematics. Within these fields, prominent subfields they have contributed to are Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research covers several topics central to public health and infectious disease surveillance, including:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Cécile Viboud has contributed extensively to academic literature, with recent notable papers including:

  • The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, 2020, Science
  • Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, 2020, Science
  • Evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 outside Hubei province, China: a descriptive and modelling study, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Early epidemiological analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak based on crowdsourced data: a population-level observational study, 2020, The Lancet Digital Health
  • Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Marco Ajelli, Alessandro Vespignani, Hongjie Yu, Kaiyuan Sun, and Maria Litvinova. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary efforts combining expertise in epidemiology, modeling, and disease surveillance.

Cécile Viboud's work appears regularly in multiple scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • eLife
  • Epidemics

Best Publications

  • The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

    Matteo Chinazzi;Jessica T. Davis;Marco Ajelli;Corrado Gioannini

  • Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

    Juanjuan Zhang;Maria Litvinova;Yuxia Liang;Yan Wang

  • Antibody response to influenza vaccination in the elderly: a quantitative review.

    Katherine Goodwin;Cécile Viboud;Lone Simonsen

  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: assessment of medication risks with emphasis on recently marketed drugs. The EuroSCAR-study

    Maja Mockenhaupt;Cecile Viboud;Ariane Dunant;Luigi Naldi

  • The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus

    Andrew Rambaut;Oliver G. Pybus;Martha I. Nelson;Cecile Viboud

  • Hand, foot, and mouth disease in China, 2008–12: an epidemiological study

    Weijia Xing;Qiaohong Liao;Cécile Viboud;Jing Zhang

  • Synchrony, Waves, and Spatial Hierarchies in the Spread of Influenza

    Cécile Viboud;Ottar N. Bjørnstad;Ottar N. Bjørnstad;David L. Smith;Lone Simonsen

  • Absolute humidity and the seasonal onset of influenza in the continental United States.

    Jeffrey Shaman;Virginia E. Pitzer;Virginia E. Pitzer;Virginia E. Pitzer;Cécile Viboud;Bryan T. Grenfell;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health.

    Hans Heesterbeek;Roy M. Anderson;Viggo Andreasen;Shweta Bansal

  • Evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 outside Hubei province, China: a descriptive and modelling study.

    Juanjuan Zhang;Maria Litvinova;Wei Wang;Yan Wang

  • Mortality benefits of influenza vaccination in elderly people: an ongoing controversy.

    Lone Simonsen;Lone Simonsen;Robert J Taylor;Cecile Viboud;Mark A Miller

  • Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Seasonal Mortality in the US Elderly Population

    Lone Simonsen;Thomas A. Reichert;Cecile Viboud;William C. Blackwelder

  • Hospitalizations Associated With Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the United States, 1993–2008

    Hong Zhou;William W. Thompson;Cecile G. Viboud;Corinne M. Ringholz

  • Global mortality associated with seasonal influenza epidemics: New burden estimates and predictors from the GLaMOR Project.

    John Paget;Peter Spreeuwenberg;Vivek Charu;Vivek Charu;Robert J Taylor

  • Global Influenza Seasonality: Reconciling Patterns across Temperate and Tropical Regions

    James D. Tamerius;Martha I. Nelson;Steven Z. Zhou;Steven Z. Zhou;Cecile Viboud

  • Risk factors for acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP)-results of a multinational case-control study (EuroSCAR).

    A. Sidoroff;A. Dunant;A. Dunant;C. Viboud;S. Halevy

  • Early epidemiological analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak based on crowdsourced data: a population-level observational study

    Kaiyuan Sun;Jenny Chen;Cécile Viboud

  • Influenza in tropical regions.

    Cécile Viboud;Wladimir J Alonso;Lone Simonsen

  • Allopurinol is the most common cause of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in Europe and Israel.

    Sima Halevy;Pierre-Dominique Ghislain;Maja Mockenhaupt;Jean-Paul Fagot

  • The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak.

    Matteo Chinazzi;Jessica T. Davis;Marco Ajelli;Corrado Gioannini

Frequent Co-Authors

Lone Simonsen
Lone Simonsen Roskilde University
Gerardo Chowell
Gerardo Chowell Georgia State University
Mark A. Miller
Mark A. Miller University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Bryan T. Grenfell
Bryan T. Grenfell Princeton University
Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes University of Sydney
Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Martha I. Nelson
Martha I. Nelson National Institutes of Health
Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch Harvard University
Hongjie Yu
Hongjie Yu Fudan University
Pierre-Yves Boëlle
Pierre-Yves Boëlle Sorbonne University

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