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Jonathan Dushoff

Jonathan Dushoff

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Biology and Biochemistry

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75
Citations
22643
World Ranking
5264
National Ranking
192

Overview

Jonathan Dushoff is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the intersection of medicine and mathematics, with a focus on epidemiological modeling and infectious diseases.

Their research outputs are primarily concentrated in the fields of Medicine and Mathematics, with significant work in the subfields of Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Viral infections and outbreaks research
  • Mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models
  • COVID-19 pandemic impacts
  • Vaccine coverage and hesitancy
  • Influenza virus research studies

Jonathan Dushoff's frequent coauthors include:

  • Sang Woo Park
  • Benjamin M. Bolker
  • David J. D. Earn
  • Joshua S. Weitz
  • Michael Li

The scientist has published widely in several venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Jonathan Dushoff are:

  • Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of Omicron in South Africa, 2022, Science
  • A conceptual guide to measuring species diversity, 2021, Oikos
  • Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of Omicron in South Africa, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The origins and potential future of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Current Biology
  • Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread, 2020, Nature Medicine

Best Publications

  • Estimating the global burden of endemic canine rabies.

    Katie Hampson;Laurent Coudeville;Tiziana Lembo;Maganga Sambo

  • Native bees provide insurance against ongoing honey bee losses

    Rachael Winfree;Neal M. Williams;Jonathan Dushoff;Claire Kremen

  • A conceptual guide to measuring species diversity

    Michael Roswell;Michael Roswell;Jonathan Dushoff;Rachael Winfree

  • Transmission Dynamics and Prospects for the Elimination of Canine Rabies

    Katie Hampson;Jonathan Dushoff;Sarah Cleaveland;Sarah Cleaveland;Daniel T. Haydon

  • Phenotypic diversity and ecosystem functioning in changing environments: a theoretical framework.

    Jon Norberg;Dennis P. Swaney;Jonathan Dushoff;Juan Lin

  • Dynamical resonance can account for seasonality of influenza epidemics

    Jonathan Dushoff;Joshua B. Plotkin;Simon A. Levin;David J. D. Earn

  • The entomological inoculation rate and Plasmodium falciparum infection in African children

    D. L. Smith;J. Dushoff;J. Dushoff;R. W. Snow;R. W. Snow;S. I. Hay;S. I. Hay

  • Robust estimation of microbial diversity in theory and in practice

    Bart Haegeman;Jérôme Hamelin;John Moriarty;Peter Neal

  • The Risk of a Mosquito-Borne Infectionin a Heterogeneous Environment

    David L Smith;Jonathan Dushoff;Jonathan Dushoff;F. Ellis McKenzie

  • BACKWARDS BIFURCATIONS AND CATASTROPHE IN SIMPLE MODELS OF FATAL DISEASES

    Jonathan Dushoff;Wenzhang Huang;Carlos Castillo-Chavez

  • Agricultural intensification, priming for persistence and the emergence of Nipah virus: a lethal bat-borne zoonosis

    Juliet R. C. Pulliam;Juliet R. C. Pulliam;Jonathan H. Epstein;Jonathan Dushoff;Sohayati A. Rahman

  • Mortality due to Influenza in the United States—An Annualized Regression Approach Using Multiple-Cause Mortality Data

    Jonathan Dushoff;Joshua B. Plotkin;Cecile Viboud;David J. D. Earn

  • Ecology and evolution of the flu

    David J.D. Earn;Jonathan Dushoff;Simon Asher Levin

  • Network metrics reveal differences in social organization between two fission-fusion species, Grevy's zebra and onager.

    Siva R. Sundaresan;Ilya R. Fischhoff;Jonathan Dushoff;Daniel I. Rubenstein

  • SARS-CoV-2 reinfection trends in South Africa: analysis of routine surveillance data

    Juliet R.C. Pulliam;Cari van Schalkwyk;Nevashan Govender;Anne von Gottberg

  • Hemagglutinin sequence clusters and the antigenic evolution of influenza A virus.

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Jonathan Dushoff;Simon A. Levin

  • The origins and potential future of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the evolving COVID-19 pandemic.

    Sarah P. Otto;Troy Day;Julien Arino;Caroline Colijn

  • Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread.

    Joshua S. Weitz;Stephen J. Beckett;Ashley R. Coenen;David Demory

  • The combined effects of pathogens and predators on insect outbreaks

    Greg Dwyer;Jonathan Dushoff;Susan Harrell Yee

  • A simulation model of African Anopheles ecology and population dynamics for the analysis of malaria transmission

    Jean Marc O. Depinay;Charles M. Mbogo;Charles M. Mbogo;Gerry Killeen;Bart Knols

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua S. Weitz
Joshua S. Weitz Georgia Institute of Technology
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Benjamin M. Bolker
Benjamin M. Bolker McMaster University
Bryan T. Grenfell
Bryan T. Grenfell Princeton University
Joshua B. Plotkin
Joshua B. Plotkin University of Pennsylvania
Sarah Cleaveland
Sarah Cleaveland University of Glasgow
Cécile Viboud
Cécile Viboud National Institutes of Health
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
David L. Smith
David L. Smith University of Washington
Rachael Winfree
Rachael Winfree Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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