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William P. Hanage

William P. Hanage

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Microbiology

D-Index
86
Citations
34474
World Ranking
821
National Ranking
380

Overview

William P. Hanage is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on infectious diseases, modeling and simulation, epidemiology, molecular biology, and genetics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, covering over a hundred works on related topics. Their main topics of work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 clinical research studies, viral infections and outbreaks research, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

William P. Hanage has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Microbe
  • Cell
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include Bradford P. Taylor, Marc Lipsitch, Karel Břinda, Mary Bushman, and Nancy Krieger.

Recent notable publications by William P. Hanage include:

  • The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China, 2020, Science
  • Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications, 2020, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases, 2020, mSystems
  • An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes, 2021, Nature Communications

Hanage's work covers aspects of epidemiology and infectious diseases, with modeling and simulation playing significant roles in their research approach. Their studies often address public health implications, virology, and the spread and control of viral outbreaks.

Their body of work contributes to the understanding of virus transmission dynamics, infection fatality rates, persistence and evolution of viral pathogens in hosts, and detection methodologies for infectious agents.

Best Publications

  • The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China.

    Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Chia-Hung Yang;Bernardo Gutierrez;Bernardo Gutierrez;Chieh-Hsi Wu

  • Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1) : Early Findings

    Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Simon Cauchemez;William P. Hanage

  • eBURST: Inferring Patterns of Evolutionary Descent among Clusters of Related Bacterial Genotypes from Multilocus Sequence Typing Data

    Edward J. Feil;Bao C. Li;David M. Aanensen;William P. Hanage

  • Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host.

    Bina Choi;Manish C. Choudhary;James Regan;Jeffrey A. Sparks

  • Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

    Nicholas J. Croucher;Simon R. Harris;Christophe Fraser;Michael A. Quail

  • Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications.

    Andrew T. Levin;Andrew T. Levin;William P. Hanage;Nana Owusu-Boaitey;Kensington B. Cochran

  • SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases

    Fuqing Wu;Jianbo Zhang;Amy Xiao;Xiaoqiong Gu

  • An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes

    An-Ni Zhang;An-Ni Zhang;Jeffry M. Gaston;Chengzhen L. Dai;Shijie Zhao

  • Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria

    Brian J Arnold;I-Ting Huang;William P Hanage

  • Antibiotics in agriculture and the risk to human health: how worried should we be?

    Qiuzhi Chang;Weike Wang;Gili Regev-Yochay;Gili Regev-Yochay;Marc Lipsitch

  • Recombination and the Nature of Bacterial Speciation

    Christophe Fraser;William P. Hanage;Brian G. Spratt

  • Variation in HIV-1 set-point viral load: Epidemiological analysis and an evolutionary hypothesis

    Christophe Fraser;T. Déirdre Hollingsworth;Ruth Chapman;Frank de Wolf

  • The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity

    Christophe Fraser;Eric J. Alm;Eric J. Alm;Martin F. Polz;Brian G. Spratt

  • Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of bacterial and archaeal population structure

    Martin F. Polz;Eric J. Alm;Eric J. Alm;William P. Hanage

  • Emergence of 19A as virulent and multidrug resistant pneumococcus in Massachusetts following universal immunization of infants with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

    Stephen I. Pelton;Heather Huot;Jonathan A. Finkelstein;C J. Bishop

  • Population genomics of post-vaccine changes in pneumococcal epidemiology

    Nicholas J Croucher;Jonathan A Finkelstein;Jonathan A Finkelstein;Stephen I Pelton;Patrick K Mitchell

  • Fuzzy species among recombinogenic bacteria

    William P Hanage;Christophe Fraser;Brian G Spratt

  • Making Sense of Mutation: What D614G Means for the COVID-19 Pandemic Remains Unclear.

    Nathan D. Grubaugh;William P. Hanage;Angela L. Rasmussen

  • Genomic epidemiology of the Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreaks in Europe, 2011

    Yonatan H. Grad;Marc Lipsitch;Marc Lipsitch;Michael Feldgarden;Harindra M. Arachchi

  • Continued impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on carriage in young children.

    Susan S Huang;Virginia L Hinrichsen;Abbie E Stevenson;Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch Harvard University
Stephen D. Bentley
Stephen D. Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute
Nicholas J. Croucher
Nicholas J. Croucher Imperial College London
Jukka Corander
Jukka Corander University of Oslo
Christophe Fraser
Christophe Fraser University of Oxford
Yonatan H. Grad
Yonatan H. Grad Harvard University
Jonathan A. Finkelstein
Jonathan A. Finkelstein Boston Children's Hospital
Brian G. Spratt
Brian G. Spratt Imperial College London
Stephen I. Pelton
Stephen I. Pelton Boston University
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge

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