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Overview

Lone Simonsen is affiliated with Roskilde University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly focusing on infectious diseases, epidemiology, and modeling and simulation. Their research encompasses a range of topics related to viral infections and public health impacts, with a notable concentration on COVID-19 and influenza pandemics.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Oncology
  • General Health Professions

Main topics covered in their work are:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Among recent notable publications authored or co-authored by Lone Simonsen are:

  • "Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics," The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020
  • "Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020," JAMA Internal Medicine, 2020
  • "Risk of hospitalisation associated with infection with SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant versus delta variant in Denmark: an observational cohort study," The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2022
  • "A comprehensive look at the COVID-19 pandemic death toll," eLife, 2021
  • "COVID-19 Superspreading Suggests Mitigation by Social Network Modulation," Physical Review Letters, 2021

Lone Simonsen frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including Thea Kølsen Fischer, Maarten van Wijhe, Cécile Viboud, Tyra Grove Krause, and Kim Sneppen. These collaborations have contributed to advancing understanding and interdisciplinary approaches in infectious disease epidemiology.

The scientist's work has been published in several recurrent venues, reflecting their research community and focus areas. These publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • eLife
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and influenza pandemics.

    Eskild Petersen;Eskild Petersen;Marion Koopmans;Unyeong Go;Davidson H Hamer

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

    Katherine Goodwin;Cécile Viboud;Lone Simonsen

  • The Japanese experience with vaccinating schoolchildren against influenza.

    T A Reichert;N Sugaya;D S Fedson;W P Glezen

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

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

  • Impact of Influenza on Acute Cardiopulmonary Hospitalizations in Pregnant Women

    Kathleen Maletic Neuzil;George W. Reed;Edward F. Mitchel;Lone Simonsen

  • Global trends in resistance to antituberculosis drugs. World Health Organization-International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Working Group on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance.

    Marcos A. Espinal;Adalbert Laszlo;Lone Simonsen;Fadila Boulahbal

  • Unsafe injections in the developing world and transmission of bloodborne pathogens: a review.

    Simonsen L;Kane A;Lloyd J;Zaffran M

  • Pandemic versus Epidemic Influenza Mortality: A Pattern of Changing Age Distribution

    Lone Simonsen;Matthew J. Clarke;Lawrence B. Schonberger;Nancy H. Arden

  • The impact of influenza epidemics on mortality: introducing a severity index.

    L Simonsen;M J Clarke;G D Williamson;D F Stroup

  • Trends in infectious diseases mortality in the United States.

    Robert W. Pinner;Steven M. Teutsch;Lone Simonsen;Laura A. Klug

  • The Impact of Influenza Epidemics on Hospitalizations

    Lone Simonsen;Keiji Fukuda;Lawrence B. Schonberger;Nancy J. Cox

  • 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

  • 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

  • Transmission of hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency viruses through unsafe injections in the developing world: model-based regional estimates.

    Kane A;Lloyd J;Zaffran M;Simonsen L

  • Global Mortality Estimates for the 2009 Influenza Pandemic from the GLaMOR Project: A Modeling Study

    Lone Simonsen;Lone Simonsen;Peter Spreeuwenberg;Roger Lustig;Robert J. Taylor

  • Influenza in tropical regions.

    Cécile Viboud;Wladimir J Alonso;Lone Simonsen

  • Influenza and the Winter Increase in Mortality in the United States, 1959–1999

    Thomas A. Reichert;Lone Simonsen;Ashutosh Sharma;Scott A. Pardo

  • The global impact of influenza on morbidity and mortality.

    Lone Simonsen

  • Evidence of bias in estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness in seniors. Commentary

    Lisa A. Jackson;Michael L. Jackson;Jennifer C. Nelson;Kathleen M. Neuzil

Frequent Co-Authors

Cécile Viboud
Cécile Viboud National Institutes of Health
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
Martha I. Nelson
Martha I. Nelson National Institutes of Health
Ottar N. Bjørnstad
Ottar N. Bjørnstad Pennsylvania State University
Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch Harvard University
Jonathan Dushoff
Jonathan Dushoff McMaster University
Elodie Ghedin
Elodie Ghedin National Institutes of Health

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