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NTD Modeling Consortium: Insights on data needs

Published March 12, 2020 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

As Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) programs move towards the 2020 goals, there is a need to strengthen data collection and evaluation for decision making. Mathematical modeling has an important role in evaluating current monitoring and evaluation data and discussing alternatives, as well as in evaluating whether additional data is needed to understand key epidemiological uncertainties. This Collection will be regularly updated with new content, so check back soon for more featured research!

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Informing data collection

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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Strengthening data collection for neglected tropical diseases: What data are needed for models to better inform tailored intervention programmes?
May 13, 2021 Jaspreet Toor, Jonathan I. D. Hamley, Claudio Fronterre, María Soledad Castaño, Lloyd A. C. Chapman, Luc E. Coffeng, Federica Giardina, Thomas M. Lietman, Edwin Michael, Amy Pinsent, Epke A. Le Rutte, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth

Locally tailored interventions for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are becoming increasingly important for ensuring that the World…

Monitoring and evaluation

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10.1371/journal.pntd.0007514

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Sampling strategies for monitoring and evaluation of morbidity targets for soil-transmitted helminths
June 26, 2019 Federica Giardina, Luc E. Coffeng, Sam H. Farrell, Carolin Vegvari, Marleen Werkman, James E. Truscott, Roy M. Anderson, Sake J. de Vlas
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Jaspreet Toor and colleagues

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The design of schistosomiasis monitoring and evaluation programmes: The importance of collecting adult data to inform treatment strategies for Schistosoma mansoni
October 8, 2018 Jaspreet Toor, Hugo Turner, James Truscott, Marleen Werkman, Anna Phillips, Ramzi Alsallaq, Graham Medley, Charles King, Roy Anderson
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0006531

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Optimising sampling regimes and data collection to inform surveillance for trachoma control
October 11, 2018 Amy Pinsent, T. Dèirdre Hollingsworth
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Edwin Michael and colleagues

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Quantifying the value of surveillance data for improving model predictions of lymphatic filariasis elimination
October 8, 2018 Edwin Michael, Swarnali Sharma, Morgan Smith, Panayiota Touloupou, Federica Giardina, Joaquin Prada, Wilma Stolk, Deirdre Hollingsworth, Sake de VLas
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0006803

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Age trends in asymptomatic and symptomatic Leishmania donovani infection in the Indian subcontinent: A review and analysis of data from diagnostic and epidemiological studies
December 6, 2018 Lloyd Chapman, Alex Morgan, Emily Adams, Caryn Bern, Graham Medley, T. Hollingsworth

Epidemiological data for understanding key dynamics

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10.1371/journal.pntd.0007557

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Modelling exposure heterogeneity and density dependence in onchocerciasis using a novel individual-based transmission model, EPIONCHO-IBM: Implications for elimination and data needs
December 5, 2019 Jonathan I. D. Hamley, Philip Milton, Martin Walker, Maria-Gloria Basáñez
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Thomas M. Lietman and colleagues

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Identifying a sufficient core group for trachoma transmission
October 8, 2018 Thomas Lietman, Michael Deiner, Catherine Oldenburg, Scott Nash, Jeremy Keenan, Travis Porco
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Lloyd A. C. Chapman and colleagues

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The role of case proximity in transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in a highly endemic village in Bangladesh
October 8, 2018 Lloyd A. C. Chapman, Chris P. Jewell, Simon E. F. Spencer, Lorenzo Pellis, Samik Datta, Rajib Chowdhury, Caryn Bern, Graham F. Medley, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0006888

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Visceral leishmaniasis: Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and drivers underlying the hotspots in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India
December 6, 2018 Caroline Bulstra, Epke Le Rutte, Paritosh Malaviya, Epco Hasker, Luc Coffeng, Albert Picado, Om Prakash Singh, Marleen Boelaert, Sake de Vlas, Shyam Sundar
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0006758

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Predicted short and long-term impact of deworming and water, hygiene, and sanitation on transmission of soil-transmitted helminths
December 6, 2018 Luc Coffeng, Susana Vaz Nery, Darren Gray, Roel Bakker, Sake de Vlas, Archie Clements
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Luc E. Coffeng and colleagues

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The effect of assortative mixing on stability of low helminth transmission levels and on the impact of mass drug administration: Model explorations for onchocerciasis
October 8, 2018 Anneke de Vos, Wilma Stolk, Sake de Vlas, Luc Coffeng

NTD Modelling Consortium

The consortium united together to support the global drive to reduce the burden of NTDs by providing modelling estimates of the epidemiological impact of control strategies.

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