Modeling Emerging Infectious Diseases for Public Health Decision Support
| dc.contributor.author | Rivers, Caitlin | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Eubank, Stephen G. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeechair | Lewis, Bryan L. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Chretien, Jean-Paul | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Alexander, Kathleen A. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Animal and Poultry Sciences | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-06T08:00:10Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-06T08:00:10Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05-05 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Emerging infectious diseases (EID) pose a serious threat to global public health. Computational epidemiology is a nascent subfield of public health that can provide insight into an outbreak in advance of traditional methodologies. Research in this dissertation will use fuse nontraditional, publicly available data sources with more traditional epidemiological data to build and parameterize models of emerging infectious diseases. These methods will be applied to avian influenza A (H7N9), Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks. This effort will provide quantitative, evidenced-based guidance for policymakers and public health responders to augment public health operations. | en |
| dc.description.degree | Ph. D. | en |
| dc.format.medium | ETD | en |
| dc.identifier.other | vt_gsexam:4714 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52023 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | epidemiology | en |
| dc.subject | zoonoses | en |
| dc.subject | emerging infectious diseases | en |
| dc.subject | infectious disease modeling | en |
| dc.title | Modeling Emerging Infectious Diseases for Public Health Decision Support | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | en |