David Kossowsky
St. Michael's Hospital
7 Papers
8 Citations
David Kossowsky is an academic researcher from St. Michael's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Public health. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Infectious disease surveillance and modelling across geographic frontiers and scientific specialties.
Kamran Khan,Kamran Khan,Scott J. N. McNabb,Ziad A. Memish,Rose Eckhardt,Wei Hu,David Kossowsky,Jennifer Sears,Julien Arino,Anders Johansson,Anders Johansson,Maurizio Barbeschi,Brian McCloskey,Bonnie Henry,Martin S. Cetron,John S. Brownstein +15 more
TL;DR: Integration of surveillance across geographic frontiers and modelling across scientific specialties could produce the first real-time risk monitoring and assessment platform that could strengthen awareness of global infectious disease threats before, during, and immediately after MGs.
Entry and exit screening of airline travellers during the A(H1N1) 2009 pandemic: a retrospective evaluation
Kamran Khan,Rose Eckhardt,John S. Brownstein,Raza Naqvi,Wei Hu,David Kossowsky,David Scales,Julien Arino,Michael Macdonald,Jun Wang,Jennifer Sears,Martin S. Cetron +11 more
TL;DR: During the earliest stages of the A(H1N1) pandemic, most public health benefits potentially attainable through the screening of air travellers could have been achieved by screening travellers at only eight airports.
Preparing for infectious disease threats at mass gatherings: the case of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
Kamran Khan,Clark C. Freifeld,Jun Wang,Sumiko R. Mekaru,David Kossowsky,Amy L. Sonricker,Wei Hu,Jennifer Sears,Angie Chan,John S. Brownstein +9 more
TL;DR: With the global population approaching seven billion and international access to commercial air travel expanding, the number, frequency and scale of human congregations has increased dramatically during the past half century.
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Some methodological aspects involved in the study by the Bio.Diaspora Project of the spread of infectious diseases along the global air transportation network
Julien Arino,Wei Hu,Kamran Khan,David Kossowsky,L. Sanz +4 more
- 01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The Bio-Diaspora Project as mentioned in this paper studies infectious disease threats involving the rapid translocation of an infectious agent across vast distances induced by the travel of infected individuals using the global air transportation network.
Potential for the international spread of middle East respiratory syndrome in association with mass gatherings in saudi arabia.
Kamran Khan,Jennifer Sears,Vivian Wei Hu,John S. Brownstein,Simon I. Hay,David Kossowsky,Rose Eckhardt,Tina Chim,Isha Berry,Isaac I. Bogoch,Martin S. Cetron +10 more
TL;DR: Understanding global population movements out of the Middle East through the end of this year's Hajj could help direct anticipatory MERS-CoV surveillance and public health preparedness to mitigate its potential global health and economic impacts.