Our Publications

Our publications encompass a diverse range of disciplines, including data science, epidemiology, physics, mathematics, software engineering, as well as specialties in disaster and emergency management, clinical public health, citizen science, ecology, climate, and community engagement.

  1. Nia, Z. M., Bragazzi, N. L., Wu, J., & Kong, J. D. (2023). A Twitter dataset for Monkeypox, May 2022. Data in Brief, 48, 109118.
  2. Avusuglo, W. S., Han, Q., Woldegerima, W. A., Bragazzi, N., Asgary, A., Ahmadi, A., … & Kong, J. D. (2023). Impact assessment of self-medication on COVID-19 prevalence in Gauteng, South Africa, using an age-structured disease transmission modelling framework.
  3. Movahedi Nia, Z., Bragazzi, N., Asgary, A., Orbinski, J., Wu, J., & Kong, J. (2023). Mpox Panic, Infodemic, and Stigmatization of the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual Community: Geospatial Analysis, Topic Modeling, and Sentiment Analysis of a Large, Multilingual Social Media Database. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e45108.
  4. Bragazzi, N. L., Han, Q., Iyaniwura, S. A., Omame, A., Shausan, A., Wang, X., … & Kong, J. D. (2023). Adaptive changes in sexual behavior in the high‐risk population in response to human monkeypox transmission in Canada can help control the outbreak: insights from a two‐group, two‐route epidemic model. Journal of Medical Virology.
  5. Puce, L., Okwen, P., Yuh, M. N., Akah, G., Pambe Miong, R. H., Kong, J., & Bragazzi, N. L. (2023). Well-being and quality of life in people with disabilities practicing sports, athletes with disabilities, and para-athletes: Insights from a critical review of the literature. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 242.
  6. Kong, J. D., Akpudo, U. E., Effoduh, J. O., & Bragazzi, N. L. (2023, February). Leveraging Responsible, Explainable, and Local Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Clinical Public Health in the Global South. In Healthcare (Vol. 11, No. 4, p. 457). MDPI.
  7. Wu, T., Imrit, M. A., Movahedinia, Z., Kong, J., Woolway, R. I., & Sharma, S. (2023). Climate tracking by freshwater fishes suggests that fish diversity in temperate lakes may be increasingly threatened by climate warming. Diversity and Distributions, 29(2), 300-315.
  8. Lieberman, B., Kong, J. D., Gusinow, R., Asgary, A., Bragazzi, N. L., Choma, J., … & Mellado, B. (2023). Big data-and artificial intelligence-based hot-spot analysis of COVID-19: Gauteng, South Africa, as a case study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 23(1), 19.
  9. Ogbuokiri, B., Ahmadi, A., Nia, Z. M., Mellado, B., Wu, J., Orbinski, J., … & Kong, J. (2023). Vaccine hesitancy hotspots in africa: An insight from geotagged twitter posts. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
  10. Ogbuokiri, B., Ahmadi, A., Tripathi, N., Movahedi, Z., Melado, B., Wu, J., … & Kong, J. (2023). The Impact of Omicron Variant in Vaccine Uptake in South Africa.
  11. Kong, J. D., Fevrier, K., Effoduh, J. O., & Bragazzi, N. L. (2023). Artificial Intelligence, Law, and Vulnerabilities. In AI and Society (pp. 179-196). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
  12. Bragazzi, N. L., Han, Q., Iyaniwura, S. A., Omame, A., Shausan, A., Wang, X., … & Kong, J. D. (2023). Adaptive changes in sexual behavior in the high‐risk population in response to human monkeypox transmission in Canada can help control the outbreak: insights from a two‐group, two‐route epidemic model. Journal of Medical Virology.
  13. Iyaniwura, S. A., Musa, R., & Kong, J. D. (2023). A generalized distributed delay model of COVID-19: An endemic model with immunity waning. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 20(3), 5379-5412.
  14. Bragazzi, N. L., Kong, J. D., & Wu, J. (2023). Is monkeypox a new, emerging sexually transmitted disease? A rapid review of the literature. Journal of Medical Virology, 95(1), e28145.
  15. Bragazzi, N. L., Kong, J. D., Mahroum, N., Tsigalou, C., Khamisy‐Farah, R., Converti, M., & Wu, J. (2023). Epidemiological trends and clinical features of the ongoing monkeypox epidemic: A preliminary pooled data analysis and literature review. Journal of medical virology, 95(1), e27931.
  16. Kong, J. D., Akpudo, U. E., Effoduh, J. O., & Bragazzi, N. L. (2023, February). Leveraging Responsible, Explainable, and Local Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Clinical Public Health in the Global South. In Healthcare (Vol. 11, No. 4, p. 457). MDPI.