MAPPS: Social Networks, Spatial Networks, and Pathogen Spread

How do we avoid total societal shutdown during a pandemic? Professor Mark Lurie believes the key lies in understanding how social mixing and human mobility impact pathogen spread.

Using Brown's School of Public Health building as a sandbox, his newest NSF-funded project, MAPPS (Mobility Analysis for Pandemic Prevention Strategies) uses the bluetooth beacons to better understand mobility and person-to-person proximity to predict disease exposure. In this episode, Lurie joins host Megan Hall to discuss the aims and the parameters of his study—happening November 6 - November 17, 2023.

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