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View article: TRACE‐Omicron: Policy Counterfactuals to Inform Mitigation of COVID‐19 Spread in the United States
TRACE‐Omicron: Policy Counterfactuals to Inform Mitigation of COVID‐19 Spread in the United States Open
The Omicron wave is the largest wave of COVID‐19 pandemic to date, more than doubling any other in terms of cases and hospitalizations in the United States. In this paper, a large‐scale agent‐based model of policy interventions that could …
View article: TRACE-Omicron: Policy Counterfactuals to Inform Mitigation of COVID-19 Spread in the United States
TRACE-Omicron: Policy Counterfactuals to Inform Mitigation of COVID-19 Spread in the United States Open
The Omicron wave was the largest wave of COVID-19 pandemic to date, more than doubling any other in terms of cases and hospitalizations in the United States. In this paper, we present a large-scale agent-based model of policy interventions…
View article: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Extrapolate Community-Wide Impact from a Stakeholder-Driven Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention: Shape Up Under 5
Using Agent-Based Modeling to Extrapolate Community-Wide Impact from a Stakeholder-Driven Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention: Shape Up Under 5 Open
Objective: Whole-of-community interventions are a promising systems-based approach to childhood obesity prevention. A theorized driver of success is "Stakeholder-Driven Community Diffusion" (SDCD): the spread of knowledge about and engagem…
View article: Modeling Robustness of COVID-19 Containment Policies
Modeling Robustness of COVID-19 Containment Policies Open
We report on results from the application of a new computational model designed to address challenges faced by policymakers in designing and implementing COVID-19 containment measures in the face of substantial uncertainty and heterogeneit…
View article: Using a Microsimulation of Energy Balance to Explore the Influence of Prenatal Sugar‐Sweetened Beverage Intake on Child BMI
Using a Microsimulation of Energy Balance to Explore the Influence of Prenatal Sugar‐Sweetened Beverage Intake on Child BMI Open
Objective Experiments with animals suggest that high sugar consumption during pregnancy may predispose offspring to obesity, but few human studies have examined this relationship. This study explored the association between the consumption…
View article: Activating a Community: An Agent‐Based Model of Romp & Chomp, a Whole‐of‐Community Childhood Obesity Intervention
Activating a Community: An Agent‐Based Model of Romp & Chomp, a Whole‐of‐Community Childhood Obesity Intervention Open
Objective Successful whole‐of‐community childhood obesity prevention interventions tend to involve community stakeholders in spreading knowledge about and engagement with obesity prevention efforts through the community. This process is re…