Our Publications

  1. Avusuglo WS, Bragazzi N, Asgary A, Orbinski J, Wu J, Kong JD (2023). Leveraging an epidemic–economic mathematical model to assess human responses to COVID-19 policies and disease progression. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 12842
  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. Avusuglo, W., Bragazzi, N. L., Asgary, A., Orbinski, J., Wu, J., & Kong, J. D. (2021). The Role of Behavioral Compliance to Non-Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Interventions in the Fight Against COVID-19: Insights From a Behavior-Disease Economic Epidemic Model Coupled With Optimal Control Theory. Available at SSRN 3922118.
  4. Avusuglo, W., Han, Q., Woldegerima, W. A., Asgary, A., Wu, J., Orbinski, J., … & Kong, J. D. COVID-19 and Malaria Co-Infection: Do Stigmatization and Self-Medication Matter? A Case for Nigeria.
  5. Ayana G, Dese K, Daba H, Mellado B, Badu K, Yamba EI, Faye SL, etal. (2023). Decolonizing global AI governance: Assessment of the state of decolonized AI governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Available at SSRN 4652444
  6. Ayana G, Dese K, Daba H, Wakjira E, Demlew G, Yohannes D, Lemma K, etal. (2024). Deep Learning for Improved Community-based Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance in Ethiopia. Available at SSRN 4750946
  7. Bain LE, Yankam BM, Kong JD, Nkfusai NC, Badru OA, Ebuenyi ID, etal (2023). Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership. BMJ global health 8 (11), e013751
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Effoduh JO, Akpudo UE, Kong JD (2023). Towards an Inclusive Data Governance Policy for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Africa. Available at SSRN
  14. Fatima N, Shuaib SE, Kong JD (2023). Predicting Adaptations of Fish and Fishing Communities to Rapid Climate Velocities in Canadian Waters: A Systematic Review. Environmental Advances, 100452
  15. Fonkou MDM, Kong JD (2024). Phage Therapy: Leveraging Machine Learning and Big Data techniques to Unveil the Evolution, Innovations, and Global Landscape in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
  16. Han Q, Bragazzi N, Asgary A, Orbinski J, Wu J, Kong JD (2023). Estimation of epidemiological parameters and ascertainment rate from early transmission of COVID-19 across Africa. Royal Society Open Science 10 (9), 230316
  17. 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.
  18. Ji J, Wang H, Wang L, Ramazi P, Kong JD, Watmough J (2023). Climate-dependent effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 mitigation. Mathematical Biosciences 366, 109087
  19. Kaur M, Cargill T, Hui K, Vu M, Bragazzi NL, Kong JD (2024). A Novel Approach for the Early Detection of Medical Resource Demand Surges During Health Care Emergencies: Infodemiology Study of Tweets. JMIR Formative Research 8, e46087
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Kong, J. D., Tchuendom, R. F., Adeleye, S. A., David, J. F., Admasu, F. S., Bakare, E. A., & Siewe, N. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 and self-medication in Cameroon: a mathematical model. Journal of biological dynamics, 15(1), 137-150.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Movahedi Nia Z, Bragazzi NL, Ahamadi A, Asgary A, Mellado B, etal. (2023). Off-label drug use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: topic modelling and sentiment analysis of ivermectin in South Africa and Nigeria as a case study. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20 (206), 20230200
  27. 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.
  28. Nia ZM, Prescod C, Westin M, Perkins P, Goitom M, Fevrier K, Bawa S, etal. (2024). Cross-sectional study to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare services and clinical admissions using statistical analysis and discovering hotspots in three … BMJ open 14 (3), e082114
  29. Nia, Z. M., Bragazzi, N. L., Wu, J., & Kong, J. D. (2023). A Twitter dataset for Monkeypox, May 2022. Data in Brief, 48, 109118.
  30. Nilgiriwala K, Mahajan U, Ahmad R, de Castro R, Lazo L, Kong JD, Lee A, etal. (2024). Navigating the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Asian Nations: A Focus on India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines (February 22, 2024)
  31. Nunes MC, Thommes E, Fröhlich H, Flahault A, Arino J, Baguelin M, etal. (2024). Redefining pandemic preparedness: Multidisciplinary insights from the CERP modelling workshop in infectious diseases, workshop report. Infectious Disease Modelling
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. Omame A, Han Q, Iyaniwura SA, Adeniyi E, Bragazzi NL, Wang X, etal. (2024). Understanding the impact of HIV on mpox transmission in an MSM population: a mathematical modeling study. Available at SSRN 4762707
  35. Perikli N, Bhattacharya S, Ogbuokiri B, Nia ZM, Lieberman B, Tripathi N, etal (2023). COVID-19 South African Vaccine Hesitancy Models Show Boost in Performance Upon Fine-Tuning on M-pox Tweets. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04453
  36. Perikli N, Bhattacharya S, Ogbuokiri B, Nia ZM, Lieberman B, Tripathi N, etal. (2023). Detecting the Presence of COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy from South African Twitter Data Using Machine Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15072
  37. 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.
  38. Qin H, Kong J, Ding W, Ahluwalia R, Morr CE, Engin Z, Effoduh JO, etal. (2023). Towards Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Equitable Global Health. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05088
  39. Sekkak I, Nasri BR, Rémillard BN, Kong JD, Fatini M El (2023). A stochastic analysis of a SIQR epidemic model with short and long-term prophylaxis. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 127, 107523
  40. Sharma Y, EKE Laison, Philippsen T, Ma J, Kong J, Ghaemi S, Liu J, Hu F, etal. (2024). Models and data used to predict the abundance and distribution of Ixodes scapularis (blacklegged tick) in North America: a scoping review. The Lancet Regional Health–Americas 32
  41. Vasconcelos VV, Marquitti F, Ong T, McManus LC, Aguiar M, Campos AB, etal. (2023). Rate-Induced Transitions in Networked Complex Adaptive Systems: Exploring Dynamics and Management Implications Across Ecological, Social, and Socioecological Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07449
  42. Wu T, Nguyen TN, Imrit MA, Kong J, Sharma S (2024). Increasing fish biodiversity in high elevation Albertan lakes in response to global environmental change over the past 50 years. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1129356
  43. 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.
  44. Yuh MN, Ndum, Okwen, Miong RHP, Bragazzi NL, Kong JD, etal (2024). Using an innovative family-centered evidence toolkit to improve the livelihood of people with disabilities in Bamenda (Cameroon): a mixed-method study. Frontiers in Public Health 11, 1190722