Em Prestige
emprestige.bsky.social
Em Prestige
@emprestige.bsky.social
(they/them) | PhD student at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to investigate health inequalities. Currently on a 6-month part-time secondment with the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science.
If you'd like to see the poster in detail then you can take a look on my github pages: emprestige.github.io/files/ISCB_P...
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- A measure created using this supplementation can then be used to inform estimates of social contact rates during epidemics in countries without any contact survey data available.
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- Formal surveys, which measured the number of setting-specific contacts, were conducted in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

- Supplementing mobility data with contact data collected during pandemic times can improve transmission prediction capabilities
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See some of the highlights below!

- Mobility data is a measure of human interaction and is often considered a good approximation of contact rates

- Google mobility data was regularly used as a tool to estimate the potential spread of COVID-19 in the absence of formal contact surveys
April 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM