Despite continued efforts to improve health systems worldwide, emerging pathogen
epidemics remain a major public health concern. Effective response to such outbreaks relies …

The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has, as of 29 April 2015,
resulted in more than 10,884 deaths among 26,277 cases. Prior to the ongoing outbreak …

Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …

Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs)
provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform …

Background Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations
requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of …

Background Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging
infectious disease with an increasing case number and extensive geographical expansion …

Ebola virus disease causes widespread and highly fatal epidemics in human populations.
Today, there is still great need for point-of-care tests for diagnosis, patient management and …

Background After experiencing a sharp growth in COVID-19 cases early in the pandemic,
South Korea rapidly controlled transmission while implementing less stringent national …

The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa (2014–2015) has
prompted an explosion of efforts to understand the transmission dynamics of the virus and to …

The time-varying reproduction number (Rt) is an important measure of transmissibility during
outbreaks. Estimating whether and how rapidly an outbreak is growing (Rt> 1) or declining …