HMEI Faculty Seminar: “What the Population Dynamics of Endemic Infections Can Tell Us About the Future of COVID-19 — and Vice Versa”

 

Bryan Grenfell, the Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, presented “What the Population Dynamics of Endemic Infections Can Tell Us About the Future of COVID-19 — and Vice Versa.”

Grenfell, who is affiliated with the HMEI Climate Change and Infectious Disease initiative, discussed what the historical dynamics of endemic infections such as measles and influenza can — and cannot — tell us about COVID-19 epidemiology and control. He then explored how huge global efforts in non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 have impacted other infections and what new light this sheds on their population dynamics.

C. Jessica Metcalf, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, led a discussion and Q&A after the main presentation.

HMEI Faculty Seminar: “What the Population Dynamics of Endemic Infections Can Tell Us About the Future of COVID-19 — and Vice Versa”

Publish Date

February 2, 2021

Presenter(s)

Bryan Grenfell

Link to Video

https://youtu.be/3aI2a4Pb8vQ

Video Length

58:12

 

Bryan Grenfell, the Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, presented “What the Population Dynamics of Endemic Infections Can Tell Us About the Future of COVID-19 — and Vice Versa.”

Grenfell, who is affiliated with the HMEI Climate Change and Infectious Disease initiative, discussed what the historical dynamics of endemic infections such as measles and influenza can — and cannot — tell us about COVID-19 epidemiology and control. He then explored how huge global efforts in non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 have impacted other infections and what new light this sheds on their population dynamics.

C. Jessica Metcalf, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs, led a discussion and Q&A after the main presentation.