Ira M Longini

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Affiliation: University of Florida
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A theoretic framework to consider the effect of immunizing schoolchildren against influenza: implications for research
    Ira M Longini
    Program of Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred HutchinsonCancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Pediatrics 129:S63-7. 2012
  2. ncbi The transmissibility and control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus
    Yang Yang
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Science 326:729-33. 2009
  3. ncbi Strategies for pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccination of schoolchildren in the United States
    Nicole E Basta
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 170:679-86. 2009
  4. ncbi Epidemiological benefits of more-effective tuberculosis vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics
    Laith J Abu-Raddad
    Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:13980-5. 2009
  5. ncbi Planning for the control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in Los Angeles County and the United States
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 173:1121-30. 2011
  6. ncbi Estimating influenza vaccine efficacy from challenge and community-based study data
    Nicole E Basta
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 168:1343-52. 2008
  7. ncbi Population level impact of an imperfect prophylactic vaccine for herpes simplex virus-2
    Ramzi A Alsallaq
    Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    Sex Transm Dis 37:290-7. 2010
  8. ncbi Vaccination strategies for epidemic cholera in Haiti with implications for the developing world
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:7081-5. 2011
  9. ncbi FluTE, a publicly available stochastic influenza epidemic simulation model
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS Comput Biol 6:e1000656. 2010
  10. ncbi Critical immune and vaccination thresholds for determining multiple influenza epidemic waves
    Laura Matrajt
    Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Epidemics 4:22-32. 2012

Detail Information

Publications29

  1. ncbi A theoretic framework to consider the effect of immunizing schoolchildren against influenza: implications for research
    Ira M Longini
    Program of Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred HutchinsonCancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Pediatrics 129:S63-7. 2012
    ....
  2. ncbi The transmissibility and control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus
    Yang Yang
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Science 326:729-33. 2009
    ..If a vaccine were available soon enough, vaccination of children, followed by adults, reaching 70% overall coverage, in addition to high-risk and essential workforce groups, could mitigate a severe epidemic...
  3. ncbi Strategies for pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccination of schoolchildren in the United States
    Nicole E Basta
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 170:679-86. 2009
    ..Given the current worldwide threat of novel influenza A (H1N1), with an estimated R of 1.4-1.6, health officials should consider strategies for vaccinating children against novel influenza A (H1N1) as well as seasonal influenza...
  4. ncbi Epidemiological benefits of more-effective tuberculosis vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics
    Laith J Abu-Raddad
    Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:13980-5. 2009
    ..Elimination will require new delivery strategies, such as mass vaccination campaigns, and new products targeted at latently infected people...
  5. ncbi Planning for the control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in Los Angeles County and the United States
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 173:1121-30. 2011
    ....
  6. ncbi Estimating influenza vaccine efficacy from challenge and community-based study data
    Nicole E Basta
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 168:1343-52. 2008
    ..VE(I) estimates were particularly low for these influenza vaccines. VE(SP) and VE(C) can remain high for both vaccines, even when VE(I) is relatively low, as long as the other 2 measures of vaccine efficacy are relatively high...
  7. ncbi Population level impact of an imperfect prophylactic vaccine for herpes simplex virus-2
    Ramzi A Alsallaq
    Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    Sex Transm Dis 37:290-7. 2010
    ..The continuation of developing Herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) prophylactic vaccines requires parallel mathematical modeling to quantify the effect on the population of these vaccines...
  8. ncbi Vaccination strategies for epidemic cholera in Haiti with implications for the developing world
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:7081-5. 2011
    ..For epidemic cholera, we recommend a large mobile stockpile of enough vaccine to cover 30% of a country's population to be reactively targeted to populations at high risk of exposure...
  9. ncbi FluTE, a publicly available stochastic influenza epidemic simulation model
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS Comput Biol 6:e1000656. 2010
    ..Computer simulation models play an essential role in informing public policy and evaluating pandemic preparedness plans. We have made the source code of this model publicly available to encourage its use and further development...
  10. ncbi Critical immune and vaccination thresholds for determining multiple influenza epidemic waves
    Laura Matrajt
    Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    Epidemics 4:22-32. 2012
    ..We also used this scheme to accurately predict the second wave of pandemic influenza in London and the West Midlands, UK during the fall of 2009...
  11. ncbi The global transmission and control of influenza
    Eben Kenah
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e19515. 2011
    ..Our open-source, computationally simple model can help public health officials plan for the next pandemic as well as deal with interpandemic influenza...
  12. ncbi Controlling dengue with vaccines in Thailand
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS Negl Trop Dis 6:e1876. 2012
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  13. ncbi The global spread of drug-resistant influenza
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    J R Soc Interface 9:648-56. 2012
    ....
  14. ncbi The effect of age on transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in a camp and associated households
    Jonathan D Sugimoto
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Disease, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    Epidemiology 22:180-7. 2011
    ..A major portion of influenza disease burden during the 2009 pandemic was observed among young people...
  15. ncbi A Bayesian model for evaluating influenza antiviral efficacy in household studies with asymptomatic infections
    Yang Yang
    Program of Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Biostatistics 10:390-403. 2009
    ..We also found significant therapeutic efficacies in reducing pathogenicity and the risk of infection with disease but no therapeutic efficacy in reducing the risk of viral infection in the contacts...
  16. ncbi No HIV stage is dominant in driving the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa
    Laith J Abu-Raddad
    Statistical Center for HIV AIDS Research and Prevention SCHARP, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue N, LE 400, P O Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    AIDS 22:1055-61. 2008
    ..To estimate the role of each of the HIV progression stages in fueling HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa by using the recent measurements of HIV transmission probability per coital per HIV stage in the Rakai study...
  17. ncbi Quantitative assessment of the role of male circumcision in HIV epidemiology at the population level
    Ramzi A Alsallaq
    Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Epidemics 1:139-52. 2009
    ....
  18. ncbi School opening dates predict pandemic influenza A(H1N1) outbreaks in the United States
    Dennis L Chao
    Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
    J Infect Dis 202:877-80. 2010
    ..School opening dates can be useful for future pandemic planning, and influenza mitigation strategies should be targeted at school populations before the influenza season...
  19. ncbi Optimizing vaccine allocation at different points in time during an epidemic
    Laura Matrajt
    Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e13767. 2010
    ..To answer this question, we develop a deterministic epidemic model with two age-groups (children and adults) and further subdivide each age group in low and high risk...
  20. ncbi Detecting human-to-human transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1)
    Yang Yang
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
    Emerg Infect Dis 13:1348-53. 2007
    ..The estimated lower limit on the local R0 was 1.14 (95% CI 0.61-2.14). Effective HPAI (H5N1) surveillance, containment response, and field evaluation are essential to monitor and contain potential pandemic strains...
  21. ncbi Optimal vaccine allocation for the early mitigation of pandemic influenza
    Laura Matrajt
    Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS Comput Biol 9:e1002964. 2013
    ..We show that it is possible to significantly mitigate a more global epidemic with limited quantities of vaccine, provided that the vaccination campaign is extremely fast and it occurs within the first weeks of transmission...
  22. ncbi A hybrid EM and Monte Carlo EM algorithm and its application to analysis of transmission of infectious diseases
    Yang Yang
    Department of Biostatistics and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
    Biometrics 68:1238-49. 2012
    ..We use the hybrid EM-MCEM algorithm to analyze two influenza epidemics in the late 1970s to assess the effects of age and preseason antibody levels on the transmissibility and pathogenicity of the viruses...
  23. ncbi Genital herpes has played a more important role than any other sexually transmitted infection in driving HIV prevalence in Africa
    Laith J Abu-Raddad
    Statistical Center for HIV Aids Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 3:e2230. 2008
    ..The potential impact of these interventions requires a quantitative assessment of the magnitude of the synergy between HIV and HSV-2 at the population level...
  24. ncbi Controlling endemic cholera with oral vaccines
    Ira M Longini
    Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
    PLoS Med 4:e336. 2007
    ..We used a large-scale stochastic simulation model to investigate the possibility of controlling endemic cholera with OCVs...
  25. ncbi Analytic insights into the population level impact of imperfect prophylactic HIV vaccines
    Laith J Abu-Raddad
    Statistical Center for HIV Aids Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North LE 400, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 45:454-67. 2007
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  26. ncbi Efficacy of trivalent, cold-adapted, influenza virus vaccine against influenza A (Fujian), a drift variant, during 2003-2004
    M Elizabeth Halloran
    Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
    Vaccine 25:4038-45. 2007
    ..LAIV-T was cross-protective with a drift variant strain in 2003-2004, evidence that such vaccines could be important for preparing for a pandemic and for annual influenza...
  27. ncbi Antiviral effects on influenza viral transmission and pathogenicity: observations from household-based trials
    M Elizabeth Halloran
    Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 165:212-21. 2007
    ..Studies of influenza antivirals in transmission units would be improved if randomization schemes were used that allow estimation of the antiviral effect on infectiousness from individual studies...
  28. ncbi Containing a large bioterrorist smallpox attack: a computer simulation approach
    Ira M Longini
    Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, LE 400, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
    Int J Infect Dis 11:98-108. 2007
    ..A bioterrorist release of smallpox is a constant threat to the population of the USA and other countries...
  29. ncbi Public health. Community studies for vaccinating schoolchildren against influenza
    M Elizabeth Halloran
    Program of Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Science 311:615-6. 2006