Studies needed to address public health challenges of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: insights from modeling.
In light of the 2009 influenza pandemic and potential future pandemics, Maria Van Kerkhove and colleagues anticipate six public health challenges and the data needed to support sound public health decision making.
MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. m.vankerkhove@imperial.ac.uk
Maria D
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Van Kerkhove
Tommi
T
Asikainen
Niels G
NG
Becker
Steven
S
Bjorge
Jean-Claude
JC
Desenclos
Thais
T
dos Santos
Christophe
C
Fraser
Gabriel M
GM
Leung
Marc
M
Lipsitch
Ira M
IM
Longini
Emma S
ES
McBryde
Cathy E
CE
Roth
David K
DK
Shay
Derek J
DJ
Smith
Jacco
J
Wallinga
Peter J
PJ
White
Neil M
NM
Ferguson
Steven
S
Riley
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