Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute
Public Health Sciences Division
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2007

Mailing Address

Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Avenue N, LE-400, P.O. Box 19024
Seattle, Washington 98109
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (206) 667-5076
Fax: (206) 667-4812
laith@scharp.org

Qualifications

Ph.D., Florida State University, Computational Physics, 2000.
M.Sc., Miami University, Physics, 1994.
B.Sc., University of Jordan, Physics, 1992.

Expertise and Research Interests

Infectious disease epidemiology
Theoretical Epidemiology
Mathematical modeling

Keywords

COS Keywords:

HIV, Infectious Diseases Or Agents, Mathematical Modeling, Public Health.

Additional Terms:

HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases Or Agents, Mathematical Modeling (Medical).

Publications

  • Abu-Raddad LJ, Longini IM (May 2008) No HIV stage is dominant in driving the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa., AIDS (London, England), 22 (9), 1055-61 Abstract
  • Abu-Raddad LJ, van der Ventel BI, Ferguson NM (Apr 2008) Interactions of multiple strain pathogen diseases in the presence of coinfection, cross immunity, and arbitrary strain diversity., Physical review letters, 100 (16), 168102 Abstract
  • Boily MC, Abu-Raddad L, Desai K, Masse B, Self S, Anderson R (Mar 2008) Measuring the public-health impact of candidate HIV vaccines as part of the licensing process., The Lancet infectious diseases, 8 (3), 200-7 Abstract
  • Hallett TB, Singh K, Smith JA, White RG, Abu-Raddad LJ, Garnett GP (2008) Understanding the impact of male circumcision interventions on the spread of HIV in southern Africa., PLoS ONE, 3 (5), e2212 Abstract
  • Abu-Raddad LJ, Magaret AS, Celum C, Wald A, Longini IM, Self SG, Corey L (2008) Genital herpes has played a more important role than any other sexually transmitted infection in driving HIV prevalence in Africa., PLoS ONE, 3 (5), e2230 Abstract
  • Weiss HA, Wasserheit JN, Barnabas RV, Hayes RJ, Abu-Raddad LJ (2008) Persisting with prevention: The importance of adherence for HIV prevention., Emerging themes in epidemiology, 5, 8 Abstract
  • Abu-Raddad LJ, Boily MC, Self S, Longini IM (Aug 2007) Analytic insights into the population level impact of imperfect prophylactic HIV vaccines., Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 45 (4), 454-67 Abstract
  • Abu-Raddad LJ, Patnaik P, Kublin JG (Dec 2006) Dual infection with HIV and malaria fuels the spread of both diseases in sub-Saharan Africa., Science (New York, N.Y.), 314 (5805), 1603-6 Abstract
  • Abu-Raddad LJ, Ferguson NM (May 2005) Characterizing the symmetric equilibrium of multi-strain host-pathogen systems in the presence of cross immunity., Journal of mathematical biology, 50 (5), 531-58 Abstract
  • Abu-Raddad LJ, Ferguson NM (Dec 2004) The impact of cross-immunity, mutation and stochastic extinction on pathogen diversity., Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 271 (1556), 2431-8 Abstract
  • Riley S, Fraser C, Donnelly CA, Ghani AC, Abu-Raddad LJ, Hedley AJ, Leung GM, Ho LM, Lam TH, Thach TQ, Chau P, Chan KP, Lo SV, Leung PY, Tsang T, Ho W, Lee KH, Lau EM, Ferguson NM, Anderson RM (Jun 2003) Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions., Science (New York, N.Y.), 300 (5627), 1961-6 Abstract
  • Donnelly CA, Ghani AC, Leung GM, Hedley AJ, Fraser C, Riley S, Abu-Raddad LJ, Ho LM, Thach TQ, Chau P, Chan KP, Lam TH, Tse LY, Tsang T, Liu SH, Kong JH, Lau EM, Ferguson NM, Anderson RM (May 2003) Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong., Lancet, 361 (9371), 1761-6 Abstract

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