Ronan Arthur, PhD
@RonanArthur
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Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Joined March 2019
Thanks for reading and stimulating discussion @DFisman
A really nice paper: adaptation to changing risk, and its impact on contact patterns, as a driver of recurrent epidemic waves. h/t @ToSurkhab Goes a long way towards explaining why competent public health action is needed for covid-19 elimination. https://t.co/rLxUyB9huX
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Substantial improvements in ventilation that can prevent disease transmission can be made with low-cost interventions in Liberian hospitals. Check out our recently published paper in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. https://t.co/zn98fEuc36
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New publication out in PLoS Computational Biology on how age-differentiated incentives to avoid infectious diseases affect epidemic outcomes and emergent dynamics: https://t.co/LFJI3mOeWg
journals.plos.org
Author summary Behavior during epidemics is driven by incentives, which may vary among different age classes. Here we include age-differentiated incentives in an adaptive behavioral epidemic model...
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New publication out on the lasting influence of Ebola in Liberian communities in BMC Public Health: https://t.co/GyG4iUwQRg
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
The majority of disease transmission during the 2014-16 West Africa Ebola epidemic was driven by community-based behaviors that proved difficult to change in a social paradigm of misinformation,...
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Happy to start using the CO2 measuring devices that we will deploy in the field in a few weeks. We recruited a future fellow too. @Krithi_S @RonanArthur @styczynski_a @Stanford_ID
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Interesting article on our 2021 paper. Modeling Human Behavior Is The Hardest Of All
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Our new paper on hand hygiene intervention opportunities for rural hospitals in Liberia:
mdpi.com
Hand hygiene is central to hospital infection control. During the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic in Liberia, gaps in hand hygiene infrastructure and health worker training...
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Hey, @emilygrubert, hypothetically, how might one get a very large boat unstuck from a very narrow waterway? asking for a friend...
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Another wonderful overview article by Brian Arthur on complexity economics: https://t.co/9Oe90FvrmI "Complexity economics sees the economy not as mechanistic, static, timeless and perfect but as organic, always creating itself, alive and full of messy vitality."
Stumbled upon two wonderful articles this morning, one naming the field of "Complexity Economics" and one describing how it all started at the Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience. "Do what you want, providing it deals with the foundations of economics and is not conventional."
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I often get questions at complexity economics, rightly associated with @sfiscience. Brian Arthur has a paper in Nature Review Physics that provides the logic for complexity economics and for the use of agent-based computational models. https://t.co/yVXRT3kyEN
nature.com
Nature Reviews Physics - Complexity economics relaxes the assumptions of neoclassical economics to assume that agents differ, that they have imperfect information about other agents and they must,...
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2021 SLAS Innovation Award Winner @sisichen discusses her award-winning research on this week's episode of New Matter. Listen to "Fascinated by Life:" https://t.co/6QZYkStUrF.
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Study of 364 people who died from any cause in Zambia. 19% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, suggesting COVID-19 mortality is vastly underestimated (probably throughout Africa) due to lack of testing. There was also an unusual number of deaths in children. https://t.co/5Ny63gCVqt
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