Justin Lessler

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi H1N1pdm in the Americas
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Epidemics 2:132-8. 2010
  2. ncbi Transmissibility of swine flu at Fort Dix, 1976
    Justin Lessler
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    J R Soc Interface 4:755-62. 2007
  3. ncbi Identifying the probable timing and setting of respiratory virus infections
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:809-15. 2010
  4. ncbi Outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) at a New York City school
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    N Engl J Med 361:2628-36. 2009
  5. ncbi An evaluation of classification rules based on date of symptom onset to identify health-care associated infections
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 166:1220-9. 2007
  6. ncbi Measuring the performance of vaccination programs using cross-sectional surveys: a likelihood framework and retrospective analysis
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
    PLoS Med 8:e1001110. 2011
  7. ncbi Incubation periods of acute respiratory viral infections: a systematic review
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Lancet Infect Dis 9:291-300. 2009
  8. ncbi Visualizing clinical evidence: citation networks for the incubation periods of respiratory viral infections
    Nicholas G Reich
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e19496. 2011
  9. ncbi Location-specific patterns of exposure to recent pre-pandemic strains of influenza A in southern China
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public, Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Nat Commun 2:423. 2011
  10. ncbi Estimating incubation period distributions with coarse data
    Nicholas G Reich
    Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Stat Med 28:2769-84. 2009

Detail Information

Publications11

  1. ncbi H1N1pdm in the Americas
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Epidemics 2:132-8. 2010
    ..To the extent that latitude is a proxy for seasonal changes in climate and behavior, this association suggests a strong seasonal component to H1N1pdm transmission. However, the reasons for this seasonality remain unclear...
  2. ncbi Transmissibility of swine flu at Fort Dix, 1976
    Justin Lessler
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    J R Soc Interface 4:755-62. 2007
    ..6-3.8 days), and that the virus had at least six serial human to human transmissions. This places the transmissibility of A/New Jersey/76 virus at the lower end of circulating flu strains, well below the threshold for control...
  3. ncbi Identifying the probable timing and setting of respiratory virus infections
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:809-15. 2010
    ..Show how detailed incubation period estimates can be used to identify and investigate potential healthcare-associated infections and dangerous diseases...
  4. ncbi Outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) at a New York City school
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    N Engl J Med 361:2628-36. 2009
    ..In April 2009, an outbreak of novel swine-origin influenza A (2009 H1N1 influenza) occurred at a high school in Queens, New York. We describe the outbreak and characterize the clinical and epidemiologic aspects of this novel virus...
  5. ncbi An evaluation of classification rules based on date of symptom onset to identify health-care associated infections
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 166:1220-9. 2007
    ..These results increase the utility of classifying infections by use of the date of onset by providing theoretically sound measures of performance, and they are applicable beyond the hospital setting...
  6. ncbi Measuring the performance of vaccination programs using cross-sectional surveys: a likelihood framework and retrospective analysis
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
    PLoS Med 8:e1001110. 2011
    ..We describe a method that estimates the fraction of the population accessible to vaccination activities, as well as within-campaign inefficiencies, thus providing a consistent estimate of vaccination coverage...
  7. ncbi Incubation periods of acute respiratory viral infections: a systematic review
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Lancet Infect Dis 9:291-300. 2009
    ..Our estimates combine published data to give the detail necessary for these and other applications...
  8. ncbi Visualizing clinical evidence: citation networks for the incubation periods of respiratory viral infections
    Nicholas G Reich
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e19496. 2011
    ..More standardized and widely available methods for visualizing these histories of medical evidence are needed to ensure that conventional wisdom cannot stray too far from empirically supported knowledge...
  9. ncbi Location-specific patterns of exposure to recent pre-pandemic strains of influenza A in southern China
    Justin Lessler
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public, Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Nat Commun 2:423. 2011
    ..These results suggest there are characteristics of communities that drive influenza transmission dynamics apart from individual and household level risk factors, and that such factors have effects independent of strain...
  10. ncbi Estimating incubation period distributions with coarse data
    Nicholas G Reich
    Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Stat Med 28:2769-84. 2009
    ..However for estimation of the tails of the distribution, the doubly interval-censored analysis is the recommended procedure...
  11. ncbi Propensity score estimation: neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees (CART), and meta-classifiers as alternatives to logistic regression
    Daniel Westreich
    Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7435, USA
    J Clin Epidemiol 63:826-33. 2010
    ..Our objective in this review was to assess machine learning alternatives to logistic regression, which may accomplish the same goals but with fewer assumptions or greater accuracy...