Isabel Crooker
A5052106872- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Malaria Research and Control
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2020-2023
Cornell University
2023
Mosquitoes in the genus Culex are primary vectors US for West Nile virus (WNV) and other arboviruses. Climatic drivers such as temperature have differential effects on species-specific changes mosquito range, distribution, abundance, posing challenges population modeling, disease forecasting, subsequent public health decisions. Understanding these differences underlying biological dynamics is crucial face of climate change.We collected empirical data thermal response immature development...
Policymakers must make management decisions despite incomplete knowledge and conflicting model projections. Little guidance exists for the rapid, representative, unbiased collection of policy-relevant scientific input from independent modeling teams. Integrating approaches decision analysis, expert judgment, aggregation, we convened multiple teams to evaluate COVID-19 reopening strategies a mid-sized United States county early in pandemic. Projections seventeen distinct models were...
Abstract Policymakers make decisions about COVID-19 management in the face of considerable uncertainty. We convened multiple modeling teams to evaluate reopening strategies for a mid-sized county United States, novel process designed fully express scientific uncertainty while reducing linguistic and cognitive biases. For scenarios considered, consensus from 17 distinct models was that second outbreak will occur within 6 months reopening, unless schools non-essential workplaces remain closed....
As temperatures change worldwide, the pattern and competency of disease vectors will change, altering global distribution both burden infectious risk emergence those diseases into new regions. To evaluate potential summer dengue outbreaks triggered by infected travelers under various climate scenarios, we develop an SEIR-type model, run numerical simulations, conduct sensitivity analyses a range temperature profiles. Our model extends existing theoretical frameworks for studying dynamics...
Background Health authorities can minimize the impact of an emergent infectious disease outbreak through effective and timely risk communication, which build trust adherence to subsequent behavioral messaging. Monitoring psychological impacts outbreak, as well public such messaging, is also important for minimizing long-term effects outbreak. Objective We used social media data from Twitter identify human behaviors relevant COVID-19 transmission, perceived on individuals, a first step toward...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Health authorities can minimize the impact of an emergent infectious disease outbreak through effective and timely risk communication, which build trust adherence to subsequent behavioral messaging. Monitoring psychological impacts outbreak, as well public such messaging, is also important for minimizing long-term effects outbreak. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> We used social media data from Twitter identify human behaviors relevant COVID-19 transmission,...