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65
Citations
20482
World Ranking
9003
National Ranking
4000

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Pejman Rohani is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields within Medicine, with a notable focus on Epidemiology, Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers several main research topics, including:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

Pejman Rohani has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Science

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notably:

  • Tobias Brett
  • John M. Drake
  • Christian E. Gunning
  • Mohammad Hassan Sohouli
  • Matthieu Domenech de Cellès

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Transmission dynamics reveal the impracticality of COVID-19 herd immunity strategies," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Detecting critical slowing down in high-dimensional epidemiological systems," 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Pertussis vaccines, epidemiology and evolution," 2024, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Mathematical model of the feedback between global supply chain disruption and COVID-19 dynamics," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Asymptomatic Bordetella pertussis infections in a longitudinal cohort of young African infants and their mothers," 2021, eLife

Pejman Rohani has been recognized by scientific societies, being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

In 2021, they were also named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).

Best Publications

  • Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals

    Matthew James Keeling;Pejman Rohani

  • Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases.

    Sonia Altizer;Andrew Dobson;Parviez Hosseini;Peter Hudson

  • A simple model for complex dynamical transitions in epidemics.

    David J. D. Earn;David J. D. Earn;Pejman Rohani;Benjamin M. Bolker;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • Appropriate Models for the Management of Infectious Diseases

    Helen J. Wearing;Pejman Rohani;Matthew James Keeling

  • Coherence and Conservation

    David J. D. Earn;Simon A. Levin;Pejman Rohani

  • Ecological and immunological determinants of dengue epidemics

    Helen J. Wearing;Pejman Rohani

  • 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

  • Opposite Patterns of Synchrony in Sympatric Disease Metapopulations

    Pejman Rohani;David J. D. Earn;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • Seasonnally forced disease dynamics explored as switching between attractors

    Matt J. Keeling;Pejman Rohani;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • Environmental transmission of low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses and its implications for pathogen invasion.

    Pejman Rohani;Romulus Breban;David E. Stallknecht;John M. Drake

  • Persistence, chaos and synchrony in ecology and epidemiology.

    David J. D. Earn;Pejman Rohani;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • The role of environmental transmission in recurrent avian influenza epidemics.

    Romulus Breban;John M. Drake;David E. Stallknecht;Pejman Rohani;Pejman Rohani

  • Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of rabies exposure in vampire bats: implications for transmission and control

    Daniel G. Streicker;Daniel G. Streicker;Sergio Recuenco;William Valderrama;Jorge Gomez Benavides

  • Poverty trap formed by the ecology of infectious diseases

    Matthew H. Bonds;Donald C. Keenan;Donald C. Keenan;Pejman Rohani;Jeffrey D. Sachs

  • Contact Network Structure Explains the Changing Epidemiology of Pertussis

    Pejman Rohani;Pejman Rohani;Xue Zhong;Aaron A. King;Aaron A. King

  • Estimating spatial coupling in epidemiological systems: a mechanistic approach

    Matt J. Keeling;Pejman Rohani;Pejman Rohani

  • Avoidable errors in the modelling of outbreaks of emerging pathogens, with special reference to Ebola.

    Aaron A. King;Aaron A. King;Matthieu Domenech de Cellès;Felicia M. G. Magpantay;Pejman Rohani;Pejman Rohani

  • The interplay between determinism and stochasticity in childhood diseases.

    Pejman Rohani;Matthew J. Keeling;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • Ecological interference between fatal diseases

    P. Rohani;C. J. Green;N. B. Mantilla-Beniers;Bryan T. Grenfell

  • Avoidable errors in the modeling of outbreaks of emerging pathogens, with special reference to Ebola

    Aaron A. King;Matthieu Domenech de Cellès;Felicia M. G. Magpantay;Pejman Rohani

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Drake
John M. Drake University of Georgia
Bryan T. Grenfell
Bryan T. Grenfell Princeton University
Jean-François Guégan
Jean-François Guégan University of Montpellier
Steven M. Sait
Steven M. Sait University of Leeds
Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Derek A. T. Cummings
Derek A. T. Cummings University of Florida
Andrew P. Dobson
Andrew P. Dobson Princeton University
Betsy Foxman
Betsy Foxman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sonia Altizer
Sonia Altizer University of Georgia
Cécile Viboud
Cécile Viboud National Institutes of Health

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