Kyra H. Grantz

Lessons in Implementing Complex Interventions in a Public Health Emergency: A Process Evaluation of the California Contact Tracing Support Initiative

Abstract Background Emerging in January 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic quickly exposed the limitations of traditional contact tracing and overwhelmed the contact tracing efforts of US health departments. In response, Kaiser Permanente partnered with the Public Health Institute to...

Characterizing the impact of incorporating spatially aggregated human mobility data into infectious disease models

Abstract Models of infectious disease dynamics should align the spatial scale of mobility data to the scale of travel relevant to infer disease introduction events and subsequent local transmission. Despite this, the biases of spatially aggregating mobility data, which are more c...