Amy Wesolowski

Datos Biográficos

ID1752820
NOMBREAmy Wesolowski
NOMBRESAmy
APELLIDOWesolowski
FIRMAWESOLOWSKI A
AFILIACIONESJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0001-6320-3575
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS22
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR22
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Characterizing the Geography of Drug Use Networks and Behaviors Among People Who Inject Drugs in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region

    Open AccessAmy Wesolowski, Catherine Schluth et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    The geography of injection drug use in the United States continues to evolve and expand outside of urban areas, yet there is little understanding of the extent to which urban and non-urban networks of people who inject drugs (PWID) interact, which has implications for HIV and hepatitis C transmission (HCV). Here, we characterize individuals with mixed geography PWID networks in the Baltimore, Maryland region, as well as prospective associations w…

  • Target product profiles of laboratory and data analytical frameworks for genotyping to monitor antimalarial efficacy

    Open AccessMateusz M Pluciński, Amy Wesolowski et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Therapeutic efficacy studies (TESs) are the standard to evaluate antimalarial drug efficacy and guide malaria treatment policy. TESs are particularly relevant now, with resistance to first-line regimens emerging in sub-Saharan Africa. For TESs, a range of parasite genotyping and data analyses are available for genotype correction, a process to distinguish whether recurrent parasitemia after therapy is due to recrudescence of initially infecting p…

  • Comparing and integrating human mobility data sources for measles transmission modeling in Zambia

    Open AccessNatalya Kostandova, Christine Prosperi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Quantifying population mobility is crucial in developing accurate models of infectious disease dynamics. Increasingly, multiple data sources are available to describe individual and population mobility in a single location; however, there are no methods to systematically integrate these data. Combining information from these data sets may be valuable and help mitigate inherent biases in each data set due to sampling, censoring, and recall. We exa…

  • Comparing lagged impacts of mobility changes and environmental factors on Covid-19 waves in rural and urban India

    Open AccessEimear Cleary, Fatumah Atuhaire et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Previous research in India has identified urbanisation, human mobility and population demographics as key variables associated with higher district level COVID-19 incidence. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of mobility patterns in rural and urban areas in India, in conjunction with other drivers of COVID-19 transmission, have not been fully investigated. We explored travel networks within India during two pandemic waves using aggregated and a…

  • Improving mobility data for infectious disease research

    Open AccessNatalya Kostandova, Ronan Corgel et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Referencias: 10

  • Characterizing mobility patterns and malaria risk factors in semi-nomadic populations of Northern Kenya

    Open AccessHannah R Meredith, Amy Wesolowski et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    While many studies have characterized mobility patterns and disease dynamics of settled populations, few have focused on more mobile populations. Highly mobile groups are often at higher disease risk due to their regular movement that may increase the variability of their environments, reduce their access to health care, and limit the number of intervention strategies suitable for their lifestyles. Quantifying the movements and their associated d…

  • Who is missed in a community-based survey

    Open AccessNatalya Kostandova, Simon Mutembo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Community-based serological studies are increasingly relied upon to measure disease burden, identify population immunity gaps, and guide control and elimination strategies; however, there is little understanding of the potential for and impact of sampling biases on outcomes of interest. As part of efforts to quantify measles immunity gaps in Zambia, a community-based serological survey using stratified multi-stage cluster sampling approach was co…

  • Combined and delayed impacts of epidemics and extreme weather on urban mobility recovery

    Open AccessHaiyan Liu, Jianghao Wang et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2023

    The ever-increasing pandemic and natural disasters might spatial-temporal overlap to trigger compound disasters that disrupt urban life, including human movements. In this study, we proposed a framework for data-driven analyses on mobility resilience to uncover the compound effects of COVID-19 and extreme weather events on mobility recovery across cities with varied socioeconomic contexts. The concept of suppression risk (SR) is introduced to qua…

  • Changes in mobility patterns during the Covid-19 pandemic in Zambia

    Open AccessStacie Loisate, Simon Mutembo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many facets of human behavior, including human mobility partially driven by the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as stay at home orders, travel restrictions, and workplace and school closures. Given the importance of human mobility in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, there have been an increase in analyses of mobility data to understand the COVID-19 pandemic to date. However, despite…

  • Fine scale human mobility changes within 26 US cities in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic were associated with distance and income

    Open AccessRohan Arambepola, Kathryn L Schaber et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Human mobility patterns changed greatly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite many analyses investigating general mobility trends, there has been less work characterising changes in mobility on a fine spatial scale and developing frameworks to model these changes. We analyse zip code-level within-city mobility data from 26 US cities between February 2 –August 31, 2020. We use Bayesian models to characterise the initial decrease in mobility and mo…

  • Novel bioinformatic methods and machine learning approaches reveal candidate biomarkers of the intensity and timing of past exposure to Plasmodium falciparum

    Open AccessSophie Bérubé, Tamaki Kobayashi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Accurately quantifying the burden of malaria over time is an important goal of malaria surveillance efforts and can enable effective targeting and evaluation of interventions. Malaria surveillance methods capture active or recent infections which poses several challenges to achieving malaria surveillance goals. In high transmission settings, asymptomatic infections are common and therefore accurate measurement of malaria burden demands active sur…

  • Infectious disease in an era of global change

    Open AccessRachel E Baker, Ayesha S Mahmud et al.ARTICLENature Reviews Microbiology2022

  • Long-term effects of increased adoption of artemisinin combination therapies in Burkina Faso

    Open AccessRobert Zupko, Tran Dang Nguyen et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are the WHO-recommended first-line therapies for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The emergence and spread of artemisinin-resistant genotypes is a major global public health concern due to the increased rate of treatment failures that result. This is particularly germane for WHO designated ‘high burden to high impact’ (HBHI) countries, such as Burkina Faso, where there is increased emphasis on …

  • Plasmodium falciparum importation does not sustain malaria transmission in a semi-arid region of Kenya

    Open AccessChristine F Markwalter, Diana Menya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Human movement impacts the spread and transmission of infectious diseases. Recently, a large reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum malaria was identified in a semi-arid region of northwestern Kenya historically considered unsuitable for malaria transmission. Understanding the sources and patterns of transmission attributable to human movement would aid in designing and targeting interventions to decrease the unexpectedly high malaria burden in the r…

  • Prioritizing Covid-19 vaccination efforts and dose allocation within Madagascar

    Open AccessFidisoa T Rasambainarivo, Fidisoa Rasambainarivo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    At a subnational scale, our results support the strategy adopted by the COVAX initiative at a global scale

  • Using geospatial models to map zero-dose children

    Open AccessRohan Arambepola, Yangyupei Yang et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Despite gains in global coverage of childhood vaccines, many children remain undervaccinated. Although mass vaccination campaigns are commonly conducted to reach these children their effectiveness is unclear. We evaluated the effectiveness of a mass vaccination campaign in reaching zero-dose children. METHODS: We conducted a prospective study in 10 health centre catchment areas in Southern province, Zambia in November 2020. About 2 …

  • The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of Covid-19 pandemic epidemiology

    Open AccessKyra H Grantz, Hannah R Meredith et al.ARTICLENature Communications2020

    The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened discussion of the use of mobile phone data in outbreak response. Mobile phone data have been proposed to monitor effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, to assess potential drivers of spatiotemporal spread, and to support contact tracing efforts. While these data may be an important part of COVID-19 response, their use must be considered alongside a careful underst…

  • Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain Covid-19 in China

    Open AccessShengjie Lai, Nick Ruktanonchai et al.ARTICLENature2020

  • Aggregated mobility data could help fight Covid-19

    Open AccessCaroline O Buckee, Satchit Balsari et al.ARTICLEScience2020

    Introduction to the article: As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic worsens, understanding the effectiveness of public messaging and large-scale social distancing interventions is critical. The research and public health response communities can and should use population mobility data collected by private companies, with appropriate legal, organizational, and computational safeguards in place. When aggregated, these data can help ref…

  • Study Protocol

    Open AccessChristopher D Golden, Benjamin L Rice et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    Madagascar has experienced significant environmental change since 1960, particularly through forest clearing for agricultural expansion. Climatic patterns are undergoing change in Madagascar as well, with increasing temperatures, droughts, and cyclonic activity. The impact of these environmental and climatic changes will pose threats to food availability, income generation, and local ecosystems, with significant potential effects on the spatial a…

  • Towards better targeting

    Open AccessAntso Raherindrasana, C Jessica E Metcalf et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    International audience

  • Quantifying the Impact of Human Mobility on Malaria

    Open AccessAmy Wesolowski, Nathan Eagle et al.ARTICLEScience2012

    Mobile Phone “Hot Spots” An obstacle to developing effective national malaria control programs is a lack of understanding of human movements, which are an important component of disease transmission. As mobile phones have become increasingly ubiquitous, it is now possible to collect individual-level, longitudinal data on human movements on a massive scale. Wesolowski et al. (p. 267 ) analyzed mobile phone call data records representing the travel…