Infectious disease pandemic planning and response: Incorporating decision analysis

PLoS Med. 2020 Jan 9;17(1):e1003018. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003018. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Freya M Shearer¹, Robert Moss¹, Jodie McVernon^{1

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3}, Joshua V Ross⁴, James M McCaw^{1

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5}

¹ Modelling and Simulation Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
² Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The University of Melbourne, Australia.
³ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
⁵ School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

Freya Shearer and co-authors discuss the use of decision analysis in planning for infectious disease pandemics.