GEO Meningitis Environmental Risk Consultative Meeting, 26-27 sept 2007, WHO, Geneva Project : Long-term epidemiology of Meningococcal Meningitis in the African belt: dynamics and impact of vaccination Spatio-temporal dynamics (spread, persistence, periodicity), Comparative approach, impact of vaccination Hélène Broutin, PhD Post-doctoral researcher (Supervisor: Dr Mark A. Miller) Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
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GEO Meningitis Environmental Risk Consultative Meeting, 26-27 sept 2007, WHO, Geneva Project : Long-term epidemiology of Meningococcal Meningitis in the.
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- For which population size does the disease persist in time ?
- Can we identify sources of infection (does a same locality or district constantly suffer first cases of an epidemic ?)
- Do we observe similar routes of transmission of the disease in all countries ?
- Do we observe synchrony of epidemics between countries ? Do we observe regular waves of cases ?
Idea = studying the past (long time series) and comparing dynamics in order to:
- detect global patterns vs specialty
- understand the impact of vaccination
- be able to suggest adapted vaccination strategies
Better mechanistic understanding of the epidemiology of MM during recent decades (emergence, diffusion, persistence)
Questions and goals …
Metapopulation
=POPULATION of POPULATIONS
CONNECTED BY MIGRATIONS
Concepts when Ecology meets Epidemiology…
concept cities /villages
IMPACT of VACCINATION ?
Ecology
=> POPULATION SIZEPERSISTENCE
SPREAD
=> POPULATION FLUX
Epidemiology
Critical Community Size (CCS)
- DIFFUSION : concept cities / villages = diseases spread from big cities to villages[Anderson R.M. & May R.M, 1991; Grenfell B.T. & Bolker B.M., 1998]
- PERSISTANCE : Critical Community Size (CCS) =the minimal population size below which a disease cannot persist in a susceptible population without external input(s)
[Bartlett M.S., 1957; Black F.L., 1966; Anderson R.M. & May R.M., 1991; Grenfell B.T. & Harwood J., 1997]
Concepts when Ecology meets Epidemiology…
analyses of time-period of disease extinction (period with no new cases in a locality) in relation with the population size
Cases time series analyses between localities
Population dynamics(Extinction-recolonization concept)
extinction risk for the species
Species maintain
Concepts when Ecology meets Epidemiology…
Best control
Disease persistence
Population dynamics and Epidemiology (Periodicities - synchronism)
Concepts when Ecology meets Epidemiology…
These questions are also highly relevant in a global control perspective
Figure extracted from Broutin H, Mantilla-Breniers N. and P. Rohani , Ecology of infectious disease:an example with two vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. Chapt 12 In ‘Encyclopediae of infectious diseases”, in press