Center for Global Health Faculty

Assistant Professor

Academic Degrees

• PhD
• MPHm MSc

Departmental Affiliation

• Name:

  Epidemiology

  Affiliation Type:

  Primary

  Division:

  Infectious Diseases

• Name:

  International Health

  Affiliation Type:

  Joint

Departmental Address

Contact Information

Email:

dcumming+jhsph.edu

Phone:

410-502-9319

Fax:

202-318-2492

Link:

SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

The goal of my research is to understand the temporal and spatial dynamics of the spread of infectious diseases in order to inform interventions to control their spread. My research includes analyses of spatial-temporal patterns of infectious disease spread and theoretical approaches to simulate the spread of pathogens in populations. I am specifically interested in the dynamics of dengue hemorrhagic fever, influenza, measles and chikungunya.

Keywords

infectious disease dynamics, international health, emerging infectious diseases, dengue, influenza, measles, chikungunya

Honors and Awards

Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface

Selected Publications

Fried JR, Gibbons RV, Kalayanarooj S, Thomas SJ, Srikiatkhachorn A, Yoon IK, Jarman RG, Green S, Rothman AL, Cummings DAT.  Serotype-specific differences in the risk of dengue hemorrhagic fever: an analysis of data collected in Bangkok, Thailand from 1994-2006. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2010 Mar 2;4(3):e617.

Lessler J, Reich NG, Cummings DAT; New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Swine Influenza Investigation Team. Outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) at a New York City school. N Engl J Med. 2009 Dec 31;361(27):2628-36.

Johansson MA, Cummings DAT, Glass GE. Multiyear climate variability and dengue--El Nino Southern Oscillation, weather, and dengue incidence in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Thailand: a longitudinal data analysis. PLoS Med. 2009 Nov;6(11):e1000168. Epub 2009 Nov 17.

Cummings DAT, Iamsirithaworn S, Lessler JT, McDermott A, Prasanthong R, Nisalak A, Jarman RG, Burke DS, Gibbons RV.  The impact of demographic transition on dengue in Thailand: insights from a statistical analysis and mathematical modeling. PLoS Med. 2009 Sep;6(9):e1000139. Epub 2009 Sep 1.

Reich NG, Lessler J, Cummings DAT, Brookmeyer R.  Estimating incubation period distributions with coarse data. Stat Med. 2009 Sep 30;28(22):2769-84.

Lessler, J., Reich, N.G., Brookmeyer, R., Perl, T.M., Nelson, K.E., Cummings, D.A.T. A Systematic Review of the Incubation Periods of Acute Respiratory Viral Infections. Lancet Infectious Diseases.  2009 May;9(5):291-300.

Halloran, M.E., Ferguson N.M., Eubank, S., Longini, I.M., Cummings, D.A.T., Lewis, B., Xu, S., Fraser, C., Vullikanti, A., Germann, T.C., Wagener, D., Beckman, R., Kadau, K., Barrett, C., Macken, C., Burke, D.S., Cooley, P. Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2008. 105(12):4639-4644.

Vora A, Burke DS, Cummings DAT. The impact of a physical geographic barrier on the dynamics of measles. Epidemiology and Infection. 2008. 136(5):713-720.

Lessler J, Cummings DAT, Fishman S, Vora A, Burke DS. Transmissibility of Swine Flu at Fort Dix, 1976. Journal of the Royal Society Interfaces. 2007. 4(15): 755-762.

Billings L, Schwartz IB, Shaw LB, McCrary M, Burke DS, Cummings DAT. Instabilities in multiserotype disease models with antibody dependent enhancement. J Theor Biol. 2007. May 7. 246(1):18-27.

Ferguson NM, Cummings DAT, Fraser C, Cajka JC, Cooley PC, Burke DS. Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic. Nature. 2006 Jul 27;442(7101):448-52

Burke DS, Epstein JM, Cummings DAT, Parker JI, Cline KC, Singa RM, Chakravarty S. Individual-based computational modeling of smallpox epidemic control strategies. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Nov;13(11):1142-9.

Longini IM, Halloran EM, Nizam A, Yang Y, Xu S, Burke DS, Cummings DAT, Epstein JM. Containing a large bioterrorist smallpox attack: a computer simulation approach. Int. J. Infect. Dis. 2006. Epub Aug. 8.

Cummings DAT, Moss WJ, Long K, Muluh T, Wiysonge CS, Muluh TJ, Kollo B, Nomo E, Wolfe ND and Burke DS. Improved measles surveillance in Cameroon reveals two major dynamic patterns of incidence. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2006. 10(2) 148-155.

Schwartz IB, Shaw LB, Cummings DAT, Billings L, McCrary M, and Burke DS. Chaotic desynchronization of multistrain diseases. Physical Review E. 72, 066201. (2005)

Cummings DAT, Schwartz IB, Billings L, Shaw LB, Burke DS. Dynamic effects of antibody-dependent enhancement on the fitness of viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2005. 102(42):15259-64.

Ferguson NM, Cummings DAT, Cauchemez S, Fraser C, Riley S, Meeyai A, Iamsirithaworn S, Burke DS. Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia. Nature. 2005. 437(7056):209-214.

Longini IM, Jr., Nizam A, Xu S, Ungchusak K, Hanshaoworakul W, Cummings DAT, Halloran ME. Containing pandemic influenza at the source. Science. 2005. 309; (5737):1083-7.

Cummings DAT, Irizarry RA, Huang NE, Endy TP, Nisalak A, Ungchusak K, Burke DS (2004) Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand. Nature 427 (6972): 344-347.

Epstein JM, Cummings DAT, Chakravarthy S, Singa RM, Burke DS (2004) Toward a containment strategy for smallpox bioterror: An individual based computational approach. Brookings Monographs.