Laboratory

Migration and Mobility

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Impact of Human Mobility on Spatial Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

Daniela Perrotta, Egor Kotov; in Collaboration with John Palmer (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), Frederic Bartumeus (Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies, Spain)

This project aims to leverage various sources of human mobility at different scales, both from digital traces and mobile phone activities, to understand better their impact on modeling the spatial spread of infectious diseases.  Detailed Description

Publications

Perrotta, D.; Frias-Martinez, E.; Pastore y Piontti, A.; Zhang, Q.; Luengo-Oroz, M.; Paolotti, D.; Tizzoni, M.; Vespignani, A.:
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16:7, e0010565–e0010565. (2022)    
Perrotta, D.; Frias-Martinez, E.; Pastore y Piontti, A.; Zhang, Q.; Luengo-Oroz, M.; Paolotti, D.; Tizzoni, M.; Vespignani, A.:
medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2021)    
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