Donald Ainslie Henderson, MD, MPH ’60, a leader of the international effort to eradicate smallpox – considered one of public health’s greatest successes – and a former dean of what is now the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, died in 2016
https://www.jhsph.edu/about/history/in-memoriam/donald-a-henderson/
https://www.jhsph.edu/about/history/in-memoriam/donald-a-henderson/
In 2006 Henderson co-authored a seminal public health paper called: "Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza" Let's take a look at it now:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.552.1109&rep=rep1&type=pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.552.1109&rep=rep1&type=pdf
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS:
"Recently, a number of mathematical models have ex-
amined various combinations of disease mitigation mea-
sures for pandemic influenza. Such models consist of
computer simulations of disease outbreaks that are devel-
oped from very limited data >>
"Recently, a number of mathematical models have ex-
amined various combinations of disease mitigation mea-
sures for pandemic influenza. Such models consist of
computer simulations of disease outbreaks that are devel-
oped from very limited data >>
..regarding the epidemiologi-
cal and biological characteristics of influenza and a series
of assumptions about the likely compliance of the popu-
lation, the feasibility of applying various interventions,
and so on. >>
cal and biological characteristics of influenza and a series
of assumptions about the likely compliance of the popu-
lation, the feasibility of applying various interventions,
and so on. >>
"The predictions provided by such models can
vary widely depending on the assumptions that are made
in their construction."
vary widely depending on the assumptions that are made
in their construction."