Wei Hu
St. Michael's Hospital
12 Papers
21 Citations
Wei Hu is an academic researcher from St. Michael's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Outbreak. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 12 publications. Previous affiliations of Wei Hu include Centre for Research on Inner City Health & University of Toronto.
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Papers
Assessment of the potential for international dissemination of Ebola virus via commercial air travel during the 2014 west African outbreak
Isaac I. Bogoch,Isaac I. Bogoch,Maria I. Creatore,Martin S. Cetron,John S. Brownstein,John S. Brownstein,Nicki Pesik,Jennifer Miniota,Theresa Tam,Wei Hu,Adriano Nicolucci,Saad Ahmed,James W Yoon,Isha Berry,Simon I. Hay,Simon I. Hay,Aranka Anema,Aranka Anema,Andrew J. Tatem,Andrew J. Tatem,Derek R. MacFadden,Matthew German,Kamran Khan,Kamran Khan +23 more
TL;DR: Assessment of the potential for Ebola virus to spread across international borders via commercial air travel and the relative efficiency of exit versus entry screening of travellers at commercial airports finds exit screening at airports in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone would be the most efficient frontier at which to assess the health status of traveller at risk of Ebola virus exposure.
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Global Public Health Implications of a Mass Gathering in Mecca, Saudi Arabia During the Midst of an Influenza Pandemic
Kamran Khan,Ziad A. Memish,Aneesh Chabbra,Jessica Liauw,Wei Hu,David A. Janes,Jennifer Sears,Julien Arino,Julien Arino,Michael Macdonald,Felipe Calderon,Paulo Raposo,Christine Heidebrecht,Jun Wang,Angie Chan,John S. Brownstein,Michael Gardam +16 more
TL;DR: After the Hajj, resource-limited countries with large numbers of traveling pilgrims could be vulnerable, given their limited ability to purchase H1N1 vaccine and capacity to respond to a possible wave of H1n1 introduced via returning pilgrims.
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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