Gerardo Chowell
Professor Population Health Sciences- Education
Ph.D., 2005, Cornell University
B.S., 2001, Universidad de Colima
- Biography
Professor
Dr. Gerardo Chowell is professor of mathematical epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Public Health. He also holds an external affiliation as a Senior Research Fellow at the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies at the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health.
Before joining Georgia State, Dr. Chowell was an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
Dr. Chowell is a member of the editorial boards of BMC Medicine, BMC Infectious Diseases, Epidemics, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Infectious Disease Modeling, Scientific Reports, and PLOS One.
Current Projects
NSF CMMI #1610429
CDS&E/Collaborative Research: DataStorm: A Data Enabled System for End-to-End Disaster Planning and Response.RAPID/Supplemental project. NSF grant 1414374 as part of the joint NSF-NIH-USDA Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program, UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grant BB/M008894/1
In the Media
How historical disease detectives are solving mysteries of the 1918 flu
The ConversationThe Good News About Ebola in America
TIMESome good news about Ebola: It won’t spread nearly as fast as other epidemics
Washington PostEbola unlikely to cause major outbreak beyond Africa
WIREDThe ominous math of the Ebola epidemic
Washington PostA Primer on the Deadly Math of Ebola
Bloomberg BusinessweekExperts focus on keeping Ebola in check
Dallas Morning NewsWhat Will It Take to Contain Ebola in West Africa?
Scientific AmericanRapid interventions key to preventing Ebola outbreak
ASU NewsIs a 21-day quarantine for Ebola enough?
Yahoo NewsAmid Ebola Panic, Separating Fact From Fiction
National GeographicEbola Is No Measles. That’s a Good Thing.
SlateThe mathematics of Ebola
WIREDEl nacimiento de una pandemia
El PaisDiscovery article: Halting the spread of Ebola
Discovery video: Nigeria a model for quick action
National Science Foundation
- Publications
Transmission potential of modified measles during an outbreak, Japan, March‒May 2018.
Mizumoto K, Kobayashi T, Chowell G.
Euro Surveill. 2018 Jun;23(24).Differences in Transmission and Disease Severity between Two Successive Waves of Chikungunya
Gordon A, Gresh L, Ojeda S, Chowell G, Gonzalez K, Sanchez N, Saborio S, Mercado JC, Kuan G, Balmaseda A, Harris E.
Clin Infect Dis. 2018.Simple multi-scale modeling of the transmission dynamics of the 1905 plague epidemic in Bombay.
Pell B, Phan T, Rutter EM, Chowell G, Kuang Y.
Math Biosci. 2018 Jul;301:83-92.Urbanization prolongs hantavirus epidemics in cities.
Tian H, Hu S, Cazelles B, Chowell G, Gao L, Laine M, Li Y, Yang H, Li Y, Yang Q, Tong X, Huang R, Bjornstad ON, Xiao H, Stenseth NC.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 May 1;115(18):4707-4712.Introduction to symposium: a century after the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Chowell G, Sullivan P, Rothenberg R.
Ann Epidemiol. 2018 May;28(5):265-266.Fitting dynamic models to epidemic outbreaks with quantified uncertainty: A Primer for parameter uncertainty, identifiability, and forecasts.
Chowell G.
Infect Dis Model. 2017 Aug;2(3):379-398.Forecasting the 2001 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemic in the UK.
Shanafelt DW, Jones G, Lima M, Perrings C, Chowell G.
Ecohealth. 2017 Dec 13.Numerical solution of a spatio-temporal gender-structured model for hantavirus infection in rodents.
Bürger R, Chowell G, Gavilán E, Mulet P, Villada LM.
Math Biosci Eng. 2018 Feb 1;15(1):95-123.The RAPIDD Ebola forecasting challenge special issue: Preface.
Viboud C, Simonsen L, Chowell G, Vespignani A.
Epidemics. 2018 Mar;22:1-2.Infectious disease risks among refugees from North Korea.
Nishiura H, Lee H, Yuan B, Endo A, Akhmetzhanov AR, Chowell G.
Int J Infect Dis. 2018 Jan;66:22-25. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2017.10.021.epiDMS: Data Management and Analytics for Decision-Making From Epidemic Spread Simulation Ensembles.
Liu S, Poccia S, Candan KS, Chowell G, Sapino ML.
J Infect Dis. 2016 Dec 1;214(suppl_4):S427-S432. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiw305.Perspectives on model forecasts of the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa: lessons and the way forward.
Chowell G, Viboud C, Simonsen L, Merler S, Vespignani A.
BMC Med. 2017 Mar 1;15(1):42.Characterizing the reproduction number of epidemics with early subexponential growth dynamics.
Chowell G, Viboud C, Simonsen L, Moghadas SM.
J R Soc Interface. 2016 Oct;13(123). pii: 20160659.Using Phenomenological Models to Characterize Transmissibility and Forecast Patterns and Final Burden of Zika Epidemics.
Chowell G, Hincapie-Palacio D, Ospina J, Pell B, Tariq A, Dahal S, Moghadas S, Smirnova A, Simonsen L, Viboud C.
PLoS Curr. 2016 May 31;8. pii: ecurrents.outbreaks.f14b2217c902f453d9320a43a35b9583. doi: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.f14b2217c902f453d9320a43a35b9583.Prevention and Control of Zika as a Mosquito-Borne and Sexually Transmitted Disease: A Mathematical Modeling Analysis.
Gao D, Lou Y, He D, Porco TC, Kuang Y, Chowell G, Ruan S.
Sci Rep. 2016 Jun 17;6:28070.A generalized-growth model to characterize the early ascending phase of infectious disease outbreaks.
Viboud C, Simonsen L, Chowell G.
Epidemics. 2016 Jun;15:27-37.Global Mortality Impact of the 1957-1959 Influenza Pandemic.
Viboud C, Simonsen L, Fuentes R, Flores J, Miller MA, Chowell G.
J Infect Dis. 2016 Mar 1;213(5):738-45.Transmission characteristics of MERS and SARS in the healthcare setting: a comparative study.
Chowell G, Abdirizak F, Lee S, Lee J, Jung E, Nishiura H, Viboud C.
BMC Med. 2015 Sep 3;13:210.Modelling the spatial-temporal progression of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic in Chile.
Bürger R, Chowell G, Mulet P, Villada LM.
Math Biosci Eng. 2016 Feb;13(1):43-65.Synthesizing data and models for the spread of MERS-CoV, 2013: Key role of index cases and hospital transmission.
Chowell G, Blumberg S, Simonsen L, Miller MA, Viboud C.
Epidemics. 2014 Dec;9:40-51.Transmission dynamics and control of Ebola virus disease (EVD): a review.
Chowell G, Nishiura H.
BMC Med. 2014 Oct 10;12(1):196.Heat-related deaths in hot cities: estimates of human tolerance to high temperature thresholds.
Harlan SL, Chowell G, Yang S, Petitti DB, Morales Butler EJ, Ruddell BL, Ruddell DM.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 Mar 20;11(3):3304-26.Transmission potential of influenza A/H7N9, February to May 2013, China.
Chowell G, Simonsen L, Towers S, Miller MA, Viboud C.
BMC Med. 2013 Oct 2;11:214.Characterizing the epidemiology of the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in Mexico.
Chowell G, Echevarría-Zuno S, Viboud C, Simonsen L, Tamerius J, Miller MA, Borja-Aburto VH.
PLoS Med. 2011 May;8(5):e1000436.Severe respiratory disease concurrent with the circulation of H1N1 influenza.
Chowell G, Bertozzi SM, Colchero MA, Lopez-Gatell H, Alpuche-Aranda C, Hernandez M, Miller MA.
N Engl J Med. 2009 Aug 13;361(7):674-9.Seasonal influenza in the United States, France, and Australia: transmission and prospects for control.
Chowell G, Miller MA, Viboud C.
Epidemiol Infect. 2008 Jun;136(6):852-64.The basic reproductive number of Ebola and the effects of public health measures: the cases of Congo and Uganda.
Chowell G, Hengartner NW, Castillo-Chavez C, Fenimore PW, Hyman JM.
J Theor Biol. 2004 Jul 7;229(1):119-26.Scaling laws for the movement of people between locations in a large city.
Chowell G, Hyman JM, Eubank S, Castillo-Chavez C.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 Dec;68(6 Pt 2):066102.SARS outbreaks in Ontario, Hong Kong and Singapore: the role of diagnosis and isolation as a control mechanism.
Chowell G, Fenimore PW, Castillo-Garsow MA, Castillo-Chavez C.
J Theor Biol. 2003 Sep 7;224(1):1-8.