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Derek A. T. Cummings

Derek A. T. Cummings

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Microbiology

D-Index
81
Citations
33040
World Ranking
1079
National Ranking
489

Overview

Derek A. T. Cummings is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and focuses primarily on research in the field of Medicine, with specific attention to Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Health. Their scholarly work is concentrated on topics including COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, mosquito-borne diseases and control, COVID-19 clinical research studies, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, viral infections and vectors, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Nature
  • A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: kinetics, correlates of protection, and association with severity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of COVID-19 pandemic epidemiology, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Matt D. T. Hitchings
  • Henrik Salje
  • Albert I. Ko
  • Justin Lessler
  • Angkana T. Huang

Their publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic

    Neil M. Ferguson;Derek A. T. Cummings;Christophe Fraser;James C. Cajka

  • Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia

    Neil M. Ferguson;Derek A.T. Cummings;Simon Cauchemez;Christophe Fraser

  • Containing pandemic influenza at the source.

    Ira M. Longini;Azhar Nizam;Shufu Xu;Kumnuan Ungchusak

  • Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

    Abdullah Assiri;Allison McGeer;Trish M. Perl;Connie S. Price

  • Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2.

    Megan O'Driscoll;Megan O'Driscoll;Gabriel Ribeiro Dos Santos;Gabriel Ribeiro Dos Santos;Lin Wang;Lin Wang;Derek A T Cummings

  • Incubation periods of acute respiratory viral infections: a systematic review

    Justin Lessler;Nicholas G Reich;Ron Brookmeyer;Trish M Perl;Trish M Perl

  • Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions

    Jonathan M Read;Jessica Re Bridgen;Derek At Cummings;Antonia Ho

  • A systematic review of antibody mediated immunity to coronaviruses: kinetics, correlates of protection, and association with severity.

    Angkana T. Huang;Bernardo Garcia-Carreras;Matt D. T. Hitchings;Bingyi Yang

  • Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States

    Elizabeth M. Halloran;Neil M. Ferguson;Stephen Eubank;Ira M. Longini;Ira M. Longini

  • Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand

    Derek A.T. Cummings;Rafael A. Irizarry;Norden E. Huang;Timothy P. Endy

  • N95 respirators vs medical masks for preventing influenza among health care personnel: A randomized clinical trial

    Lewis J. Radonovich;Michael S. Simberkoff;Michael S. Simberkoff;Mary T. Bessesen;Mary T. Bessesen;Alexandria C. Brown

  • Coupled contagion dynamics of fear and disease: mathematical and computational explorations.

    Joshua M. Epstein;Jon Parker;Derek Cummings;Ross A. Hammond

  • Assessing the global threat from Zika virus

    Justin Lessler;Lelia H. Chaisson;Lauren M. Kucirka;Lauren M. Kucirka;Qifang Bi

  • Outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) at a New York City school.

    Justin Lessler;Nicholas G. Reich;Derek A. T. Cummings

  • A systematic review of mathematical models of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission: 1970–2010

    Robert C Reiner;Robert C Reiner;T Alex Perkins;T Alex Perkins;Christopher M Barker;Christopher M Barker;Tianchan Niu;Tianchan Niu

  • The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of COVID-19 pandemic epidemiology

    Kyra H. Grantz;Hannah R. Meredith;Derek A. T. Cummings;C. Jessica E. Metcalf

  • Serotype-specific differences in the risk of dengue hemorrhagic fever: an analysis of data collected in Bangkok, Thailand from 1994 to 2006.

    Jessica R. Fried;Robert V. Gibbons;Siripen Kalayanarooj;Stephen J. Thomas

  • Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.

    Nathan D. Grubaugh;Jason T. Ladner;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Gytis Dudas

  • Interactions between serotypes of dengue highlight epidemiological impact of cross-immunity

    Nicholas G. Reich;Nicholas G. Reich;Sourya Shrestha;Aaron A. King;Aaron A. King;Pejman Rohani;Pejman Rohani

  • Multiyear Climate Variability and Dengue—El Nino Southern Oscillation, Weather, and Dengue Incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Thailand: A Longitudinal Data Analysis

    Michael A. Johansson;Derek A. T. Cummings;Gregory E. Glass

  • Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates

    Jonathan M Read;Jessica R E Bridgen;Derek A T Cummings;Antonia Ho

  • Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2 infection in 45 countries

    Megan O'Driscoll;Megan O'Driscoll;Gabriel Ribeiro Dos Santos;Gabriel Ribeiro Dos Santos;Lin Wang;Lin Wang;Derek A.T. Cummings

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin Lessler
Justin Lessler Johns Hopkins University
Henrik Salje
Henrik Salje University of Cambridge
Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer
Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer University of California, San Francisco
Donald S. Burke
Donald S. Burke University of Pittsburgh
Trish M. Perl
Trish M. Perl The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Michael S. Simberkoff
Michael S. Simberkoff New York University
Ananda Nisalak
Ananda Nisalak United States Department of the Army
David L. Smith
David L. Smith University of Washington
Yi Guan
Yi Guan University of Hong Kong
Richard G. Jarman
Richard G. Jarman Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

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