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Babak Pourbohloul

University of British Columbia - BC Centre for Disease Control
Verified email at exchange.ubc.ca
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The dynamic nature of contact networks in infectious disease epidemiology

S Bansal, J Read, B Pourbohloul… - Journal of biological …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… Extrinsic changes: (a) Births add new nodes and edges to a network and deaths remove
them, while migration events can add and remove nodes and edges; (b) changes in social …

Network theory and SARS: predicting outbreak diversity

LA Meyers, B Pourbohloul, MEJ Newman… - Journal of theoretical …, 2005 - Elsevier
Many infectious diseases spread through populations via the networks formed by physical
contacts among individuals. The patterns of these contacts tend to be highly heterogeneous. …

Estimated epidemiologic parameters and morbidity associated with pandemic H1N1 influenza

…, J Wu, S Moghadas, D Buckeridge, B Pourbohloul… - Cmaj, 2010 - Can Med Assoc
Background: In the face of an influenza pandemic, accurate estimates of epidemiologic
parameters are required to help guide decision-making. We sought to estimate epidemiologic …

Predicting epidemics on directed contact networks

LA Meyers, MEJ Newman, B Pourbohloul - Journal of theoretical biology, 2006 - Elsevier
… open overlay panel Lauren Ancel Meyers a b , MEJ Newman b c , Babak Pourbohloul d e …
(B) The epidemic threshold for a Poisson semi-directed network with Poisson parameters z d …

The Unexpected Impact of a Chlamydia trachomatis Infection Control Program on Susceptibility to Reinfection

RC Brunham, B Pourbohloul, S Mak… - The Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
… trachomatis in humans, although incompletely defined, appears to depend on Th1 cells
that secrete interferon-γ and on B cells that secrete neutralizing and opsonizing antibodies [9]. …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative analysis of influenza vaccination programs

S Bansal, B Pourbohloul, LA Meyers - PLoS medicine, 2006 - journals.plos.org
… (B) We model vaccination in a population by removing nodes from the population network, …
This range straddles the critical cross-points in Figure 3B, leaving some ambiguity as to which …

Initial human transmission dynamics of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus in North America

B Pourbohloul, A Ahued, B Davoudi… - Influenza and other …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background Between 5 and 25 April 2009, pandemic (H1N1) 2009 caused a substantial,
severe outbreak in Mexico, and subsequently developed into the first global pandemic in 41 …

Human mobility patterns predict divergent epidemic dynamics among cities

BD Dalziel, B Pourbohloul… - … of the Royal Society B …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The epidemic dynamics of infectious diseases vary among cities, but it is unclear how this is
caused by patterns of infectious contact among individuals. Here, we ask whether …

Heterogeneous bond percolation on multitype networks with an application to epidemic dynamics

A Allard, PA Noël, LJ Dubé, B Pourbohloul - Physical Review E, 2009 - APS
Considerable attention has been paid, in recent years, to the use of networks in modeling
complex real-world systems. Among the many dynamical processes involving networks, …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling control strategies of respiratory pathogens

B Pourbohloul, LA Meyers, DM Skowronski… - Emerging infectious …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Effectively controlling infectious diseases requires quantitative comparisons of quarantine,
infection control precautions, case identification and isolation, and immunization interventions…