Bio
Public Health, Quantitative Epidemiology, Population Ecology, Statistics, Computational and Mathematical Biology
Education
- Ph.D., Penn State, 2006
- M.S., Montana State University, 2002, 1999
- B.A., Colby College, 1996
Publication Tags
Vaccination Measles Infection Vaccines Statistics Disease Outbreaks Population Dynamics Uncertainty Health Pathogens Niger Immunization Rain Geography Immune Response Plant Viruses Surveillance Decision Making Sampling State Space Model Learning Public Health Demography Viruses Perturbation
Most Recent Papers
Mapping vaccination coverage to explore the effects of delivery mechanisms and inform vaccination strategies
C. Edson Utazi, Julia Thorley, Victor A. Alegana, Matthew J. Ferrari, Saki Takahashi, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Justin Lessler, Felicity T. Cutts, Andrew J. Tatem, 2019, Nature communications
External disturbances impact helminth–host interactions by affecting dynamics of infection, parasite traits, and host immune responses
Isabella M. Cattadori, Ashutosh K. Pathak, Matthew J. Ferrari, 2019, Ecology and Evolution on p. 13495-13505
A spatial regression model for the disaggregation of areal unit based data to high-resolution grids with application to vaccination coverage mapping
C. E. Utazi, J. Thorley, V. A. Alegana, M. J. Ferrari, K. Nilsen, S. Takahashi, C. J.E. Metcalf, J. Lessler, A. J. Tatem, 2019, Statistical Methods in Medical Research on p. 3226-3241
Concurrent assessment of epidemiological and operational uncertainties for optimal outbreak control
Shou Li Li, Matthew J. Ferrari, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Michael C. Runge, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Michael J. Tildesley, David Pannell, Katriona Shea, 2019, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The statistics of epidemic transitions
John M. Drake, Tobias S. Brett, Shiyang Chen, Bogdan I. Epureanu, Matthew J. Ferrari, Éric Marty, Paige B. Miller, Eamon B. O’dea, Suzanne M. O’regan, Andrew W. Park, Pejman Rohani, 2019, PLoS computational biology
Manipulation of aphid behavior by a persistent plant virus
Maliheh Safari, Matthew J. Ferrari, Marilyn J. Roossinck, 2019, Journal of virology
Estimates of case-fatality ratios of measles in low-income and middle-income countries
Allison Portnoy, Mark Jit, Matthew Ferrari, Matthew Hanson, Logan Brenzel, Stéphane Verguet, 2019, The Lancet Global Health on p. e472-e481
Characterizing the impact of spatial clustering of susceptibility for measles elimination
Shaun A. Truelove, Matthew Graham, William J. Moss, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Matthew J. Ferrari, Justin Lessler, 2019, Vaccine on p. 732-741
Measles and the canonical path to elimination
Matthew Graham, Amy K. Winter, Matthew Ferrari, Bryan Grenfell, William J. Moss, Andrew S. Azman, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Justin Lessler, 2019, Science on p. 584-587
Context matters
W. J.M. Probert, S. Lakkur, C. J. Fonnesbeck, Katriona Shea, M. C. Runge, M. J. Tildesley, Matthew Joseph Ferrari, 2019, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Recent Most-Cited Papers
Pollinator behavior mediates negative interactions between two congeneric invasive plant species
Suann Yang, Matthew J. Ferrari, Katriona Shea, 2011, American Naturalist on p. 110-118
Rural-urban gradient in seasonal forcing of measles transmission in Niger
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Ali Djibo, Rebecca F. Grais, Nita Bharti, Bryan T. Grenfell, Ottar N. Bjornstad, 2010, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 2775-2782
Impacto económico estimado de las vacunas en 73 países con ingresos bajos y medios, 2001-2020
Sachiko Ozawa, Samantha Clark, Allison Portnoy, Simrun Grewal, Meghan L. Stack, Anushua Sinha, Andrew Mirelman, Heather Franklin, Ingrid K. Friberg, Yvonne Tam, Neff Walker, Andrew Clark, Matthew Ferrari, Chutima Suraratdecha, Steven Sweet, Sue J. Goldie, Tini Garske, Michelle Li, Peter M. Hansen, Hope L. Johnson, Damian Walker, 2017, Bulletin of the World Health Organization on p. 629-638
The epidemiology of rubella in Mexico
C. J.E. Metcalf, O. N. Bjørnstad, M. J. Ferrari, P. Klepac, N. Bharti, H. Lopez-Gatell, B. T. Grenfell, 2011, Epidemiology and Infection on p. 1029-1038
Measles hotspots and epidemiological connectivity
N. Bharti, A. Djibo, M. J. Ferrari, R. F. Grais, A. J. Tatem, C. A. McCabe, O. N. Bjornstad, B. T. Grenfell, 2010, Epidemiology and Infection on p. 1308-1316
Protocols for sampling viral sequences to study epidemic dynamics
J. Conrad Stack, J. David Welch, Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Beth U. Shapiro, Bryan T. Grenfell, 2010, Journal of the Royal Society Interface on p. 1119-1127
Decision-making for foot-and-mouth disease control
William J.M. Probert, Katriona Shea, Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Michael C. Runge, Tim E. Carpenter, Salome Dürr, M. Graeme Garner, Neil Harvey, Mark A. Stevenson, Colleen T. Webb, Marleen Werkman, Michael J. Tildesley, Matthew J. Ferrari, 2016, Epidemics on p. 10-19
The geography of measles vaccination in the African Great Lakes region
Saki Takahashi, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Matthew J. Ferrari, Andrew J. Tatem, Justin Lessler, 2017, Nature communications
Tracking measles infection through non-linear state space models
Shi Chen, John Fricks, Matthew J. Ferrari, 2012, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics on p. 117-134
Demographic transition and the dynamics of measles in six provinces in China
Sheng Li, Chao Ma, Lixin Hao, Qiru Su, Zhijie An, Fubao Ma, Shuyun Xie, Aiqiang Xu, Yanyang Zhang, Zhengrong Ding, Hui Li, Lisa Cairns, Huaqing Wang, Huiming Luo, Ning Wang, Li Li, Matthew J. Ferrari, 2017, PLoS medicine