Publications

• E. Shim, G. Chapman & A. Galvani. Antiviral intervention during an influenza pandemic driven by individual versus population interest. (Submitted)
• E. Shim, K. Hampson, S. Cleaveland & A. Galvani. Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a case study in Tanzania. Vaccine (In press)
• E. Shim, B. Kochin & A. Galvani. Insights from epidemiological game theory into gender-specific vaccination against rubella. Journal of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. 6(4):839-854, 2009.
• E. Shim & A. Galvani. Impact of transmission dynamics on the cost-effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination. Vaccine. 27(30):4025-30, 2009.
• E. Shim,& A. Galvani. Evolutionary repercussions of avian culling on host resistance and influenza virulence. PLoS ONE. 4(5):e5503, 2009.
• E. Shim & C. Castillo-Chavez. The epidemiological impact of rotavirus vaccination in the United States and Mexico. Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology. G. Chowell, J.M. Hyman, L.M.A. Bettencourt, and C. Castillo-Chavez (Eds). Springer. 2009.
• E. Shim, Z. Feng, M. Martcheva, & C. Castillo-Chavez. Age-structured model of rotavirus infection with vaccination. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 53(4):719-46, 2006.
• E. Shim, H.T. Banks, & C. Castillo-Chavez. Seasonal pattern of rotavirus infection with its vaccination. Modeling The Dynamics of Human Diseases: Emerging Paradigms and Challenges. AMS Cotemporary Mathematics Series. Vol. 410. Gumel A. (Chief Editor), Castillo-Chavez, C., Clemence, D.P. and R.E. Mickens . Gumel A. (Chief Editor), Castillo-Chavez, C., Clemence, D.P. and R.E. Mickens.
• E. Shim. A note on epidemic models with infective immigrants and vaccination. Journal of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. 3(3):557-566, 2006.
• G. Chowell, E. Shim, F. Brauer, P. Diaz-Duenas, J. M. Hyman, & C. Castillo-Chavez. Modeling the transmission dynamics of Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis: Application to the 2003 Outbreak in Mexico. Statistics in Medicine. 25(11):1840-1857, 2006.

Selected Talks

• MIDAS (Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study) Network Meeting, Chicago, IL, Oct 29, 2009: "Behavioral models applied to influenza A (H1N1)"
• Invited talk at the International Conference on Mathematical Biology and Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, Vancouver, BC, Canada July 27, 2009
• Invited talk at the SIAM annual meeting, Denver, CO July 10, 2009
• Invited talk at the Mitigating the Spread of A/H1N1 Flu: Lessons Learned from Past Outbreaks, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ June 26, 2009
• New England Biosciences Society 17th Annual Meeting, Harvard University May 2, 2009.
• Invited talk at the Mathbio Seminar, Purdue University Jan 30, 2009.
• Invited talk at the SIAM annual meeting, Montreal, QB, Canada Aug 5, 2008.
• Invited talk at the BIRS workshop on modeling the impact of policy options during public health crisis, Banff, AB, Canada July 31, 2008.
• Biomath Days, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. (Voted as the best talk contributed by students and postdocs) Mar 29, 2008.
• Invited talk at the Using Modeling to Inform Public Health (UMPH) Seminar, School of Medicine, Yale University Nov 7, 2007.
• Invited talk at DIMACS Workshop on Game Theoretic Approaches to Epidemiology and Ecology, Rutgers University, Oct 15, 2007: "Antiviral intervention during pandemic influenza: the prophylaxis and treatment coverage levels driven by individual and societal interest".
• Invited talk at Merck, Philadelphia, PA, Sep 21, 2006 : "Potential impact of rotavirus vaccine under various scenarios: with consideration of seasonality of infection rates, maternal antibodies and different types of vaccine schedules":
• "Age-structured model of rotavirus with three-dose vaccine schedule: can we predict the potential impact of new vaccine?": Math biology seminar, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Sep 1, 2006.
• "A model for high gain in signal transduction in bacterial chemotaxis: mixed receptor type": at Center for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Aug 9, 2006.
• Invited talk at the Workshop on Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine, at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Feb 2006: "A model for rotavirus infection and its seasonality"
• "Mathematical model of rotavirus infection and its new vaccine: optimal vaccine strategy and policy decision": JSRC-Snowbird Conference on Modeling Dynamics of Human Diseases: Emerging Paradigms and Challenges, in Snowbird, Utah, Jul 2005.
• "Control strategies in cholera outbreak in South Africa, 2000-2001 with model selections": Institute for Advanced Study. Park City Mathematics Institute Summer School on Mathematical Biology, in Park City, Utah, Jul 2005.
• "An epidemic model with infective immigrants and vaccination": University of British Columbia in Canada, Sep 2003.
  

Theses

• Ph.D. thesis entitled "Mathematical Models of Rotavirus Transmission in the Presence of Maternal Antibodies and Vaccination" .
• Master's thesis entitled "An Epidemic Model with Immigration of Infectives and Vaccination".

Eunha Shim <eunha.shim@yale.edu>

Last modified: 17 November 2009