Informing Optimal Environmental Interventions for Influenza

Principal Investigator

Joseph Eisenberg

Co-Principal Investigator

James Koopman

Co-Investigator

Mark Nicas

Additional Personnel

Sheng Li, Ian Spicknall, Josep Pujol

Funding Sources

Michigan State University - Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA)

Associated URL

http://www.camra.msu.edu/

About this Project

Little is known about the relative contributions of the different influenza transmission modes and how these might vary due to heterogeneity in strain, host, and environment. In this study, we explore the potential effects of these unknown factors by presenting: 1) a transmission model structure that explicitly describes the environmental processes through which viruses pass from one person to another, thereby distinguishing the different modes of transmission; and 2) an analytical approach that explores which factors increase or decrease different modes of transmission under the given model structure.