First Author Publication

Authors: Hamish Gibbs, Yang Liu, Sam Abbott, Isaac Baffoe-Nyarko, Dennis O. Laryea, Ernest Akyereko, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Ivy Asantewaa Asante, Oriol Mitjà, LSHTM CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, William Ampofo, Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Michael Marks, Rosalind M. Eggo Published: September, 2022 in PLOS Global Public Health Full text link Abstract Governments around the world have implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions to limit the transmission of COVID-19. Here we assess if increasing NPI stringency was associated with a reduction in COVID-19 cases in Ghana....

Authors: Hamish Gibbs, Anwar Musah, Omar Seidu, William Ampofo, Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, Jonathan Gray, Wole A. Adewole, James Cheshire, Michael Marks, Rosalind M. Eggo Published: August, 2023 in PLOS Computational Biology Full text link Abstract This paper demonstrates how two different methods used to calculate population-level mobility from Call Detail Records (CDR) produce varying predictions of the spread of epidemics informed by these data. Our findings are based on one CDR dataset describing inter-district movement in Ghana in 2021, produced using two different aggregation methodologies....

Authors: Hamish Gibbs, Yang Liu, Carl AB Pearson, Christopher I Jarvis, Chris Grundy, Billy J Quilty, Charlie Diamond, Rosalind M Eggo Published: May, 2020 in Nature Communications Full text link Abstract Understanding changes in human mobility in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial for assessing the impacts of travel restrictions designed to reduce disease spread. Here, relying on data from mainland China, we investigated the spatio-temporal characteristics of human mobility between 1st January and 1st March 2020 and discussed their public health implications....

Authors: Hamish Gibbs, Emily Nightingale, Yang Liu, James Cheshire, Leon Danon, Liam Smeeth, Carl A. B. Pearson, Chris Grundy, LSHTM CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, Adam J. Kucharski, Rosalind M. Eggo Published: July, 2021 in PLOS Computational Biology Full text link Abstract On March 23 2020, the UK enacted an intensive, nationwide lockdown to mitigate transmission of COVID-19. As restrictions began to ease, more localized interventions were used to target resurgences in transmission....

Authors: Hamish Gibbs, Patrick Ballantyne, James Cheshire, Alex Singleton, Mark A. Green Published: October, 2023 in the Geographic Journal Full text link Abstract This paper provides an analysis of working from home patterns in England using data from the 2021 Census to understand (1) how patterns of working from home (WFH) in England have shifted since the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) whether human mobility indicators, specifically Google Community Mobility Reports, provide a reliable proxy for WFH patterns recorded by the 2021 Census, providing a formal evaluation of the reliability of such datasets, whose applications have grown exponentially over the COVID-19 pandemic....

Authors: Hamish Gibbs, Naomi R. Waterlow, James Cheshire, Leon Danon, Yang Liu, Chris Grundy, Adam J. Kucharski, LSHTM CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, Rosalind M. Eggo Published: October, 2022 in Wellcome Open Research Full text link Abstract Background: Mobility data have demonstrated major changes in human movement patterns in response to COVID-19 and associated interventions in many countries. This involves sub-national redistribution, short-term relocations, and international migration. Aggregated mobile phone location data combined with small-area census population data allow changes in the population distribution of the UK to be quantified with high spatial and temporal granularity....