Contact networks are playing an increasingly important role in epidemiology. A contact
network represents individuals in a host population as nodes and the interactions among …

Background Studies measuring contact networks have helped to improve our understanding
of infectious disease transmission. However, several methodological issues are still …

In early 2020 many countries closed schools to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Since
then, governments have sought to relax the closures, engendering a need to understand …

School holidays are recognised to be of great epidemiological importance for a wide range
of infectious diseases; this is postulated to be because the social mixing patterns of school …

Rapid testing strategies that replace the isolation of close contacts through the use of lateral
flow device tests (LFTs) have been suggested as a way of controlling SARS-CoV-2 …

Since the early 1990s, there has been a considerable increase in the number of scientific
studies on science communication, and this increase has been accompanied by a …

Background Contact surveys and diaries have conventionally been used to measure contact
networks in different settings for elucidating infectious disease transmission dynamics of …

Data describing human interactions often suffer from incomplete sampling of the underlying
population. As a consequence, the study of contagion processes using data-driven models …

Supplementary material: Efficient estimation of age-specific social contact rates between
men and women. In the Supplementary Material we describe the data pre-procession steps …

The degree of homogeneity and heterogeneity among schools affects the
comprehensiveness and inclusiveness of the school system and the type and scope of …