Graphic illustrating the potential impact of social, mobility and contact networks on infectious disease transmission.

How Our Social Connections Shape the Spread of Disease: What New Research Reveals

In today’s interconnected world, a local outbreak can become a global crisis with remarkable speed. Planes link distant cities in hours, social media connects millions in seconds, and our daily routines weave together countless invisible threads of contact. A recent scoping review led by WorldPop PhD researcher Zhifeng Cheng and published in Infectious Diseases of […]

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