2020
Social Media Survey and Web Posting Assessment of the COVID-19 Response in China: Health Worker Attitudes Toward Preparedness and Personal Protective Equipment Shortages
Huang D, Shu W, Li M, Ma J, Li Z, Gong J, Khattab NM, Vermund SH, Hu Y. Social Media Survey and Web Posting Assessment of the COVID-19 Response in China: Health Worker Attitudes Toward Preparedness and Personal Protective Equipment Shortages. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2020, 7: ofaa400. PMID: 33088845, PMCID: PMC7499695, DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa400.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPersonal protective equipmentHealth workersSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreakAirborne infection isolation roomsPersonal protective equipment shortagesCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemicHealth workers' awarenessInfectious disease preparednessDisease 2019 pandemicCOVID-19 preparednessCross-sectional surveyPPE availabilityPPE useEffective careIsolation roomsPPE inventoryInfectious threatsOutbreak preparednessSocial media surveyProtective equipmentOutbreak managementSARS outbreakCOVID-19 responseEquipment shortagesCOVID-19
2014
Global HIV Epidemiology: A Guide for Strategies in Prevention and Care
Vermund SH. Global HIV Epidemiology: A Guide for Strategies in Prevention and Care. Current HIV/AIDS Reports 2014, 11: 93-98. PMID: 24691698, PMCID: PMC4042676, DOI: 10.1007/s11904-014-0208-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk populationsFemale sex worker cohortSex worker cohortPrevention of motherOpiate substitution therapyHIV prevention strategiesConsiderable clinical benefitPublic health approachRepresentative population sampleLow infectiousnessAntiretroviral therapyChild transmissionHIV incidenceClinical benefitSubstitution therapyConcentrated epidemicsHIV epidemicSentinel populationYoung MSMPrevalence surveyGeneralized epidemicsIncidence estimatesNeedle useEffective carePrevention services