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Studies needed to address public health challenges of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: insights from modeling.

Van Kerkhove MD, Asikainen T, Becker NG, Bjorge S, Desenclos JC, dos Santos T, Fraser C, Leung GM, Lipsitch M, Longini IM, McBryde ES, Roth CE, Shay DK, Smith DJ, Wallinga J, White PJ, Ferguson NM, Riley S, WHO Informal Network for Mathematical Modelling for Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 (Working Group on Data Needs)

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  • Journal PLoS medicine

  • Published 01 Jun 2010

  • Volume 7

  • ISSUE 6

  • Pagination e1000275

  • DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000275

Abstract

In light of the 2009 influenza pandemic and potential future pandemics, Maria Van Kerkhove and colleagues anticipate six public health challenges and the data needed to support sound public health decision making.