I am the director of the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation (CORI) at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our mission at CORI is to improve the speed, accuracy, and use of data and analytics during public health emergencies.
Watson, C., Toner, E. S., Shearer, M. P., Rivers, C. M., Meyer, D., Hurtado, C., … & Inglesby, T. (2019). Clade X: A Pandemic Exercise. Health Security, 17 (5), 410-417. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2019.0097
George, D. B., Taylor, W., Shaman, J., Rivers, C. M., Paul, B., O’Toole, T., Johansson, M., Hirschman, L., Biggerstaff, M., Asher, J. & Reich, N. G. (2019). Technology to advance infectious disease forecasting for outbreak management. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11901-7
Rivers, C. M., Chretien, J. P., Riley, S., Pavlin, J. A., Woodward, A., Brett-Major, D., Berry, I. M., Morton, L., Jarman, R. G., Biggerstaff, M., Johansson, M. A., Reich, N.G., Meyer, D., Snyder, M. R., Pollett, S. (2019). Using “outbreak science” to strengthen the use of models during epidemics. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11067-2. Impact: This paper has been cited over 100 times. It served as one of the precursors for the establishment of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.
Inglesby, T., Cicero, A., Rivers, C. M., & Zhang, W. (2019). Biosafety and biosecurity in the era of synthetic biology: Meeting the challenges in China and the US. Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 1(2), 73-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobb.2019.09.003
Ravi, S., Snyder, M., Rivers, C. M. (2018). Review of International Efforts to Strengthen the Global Outbreak Response System Since the 2014-16 West Africa Ebola Epidemic. Health Policy and Planning, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 47–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy102
Ball, J. D., Prosperi, M. A., Brown, A., Chen, X., Kenah, E., Yang, Y., Cummings, D. & Rivers, C. M. (2018). The role of benzathine penicillin G in predicting and preventing all-cause acute respiratory disease in military recruits: 1991–2017. Epidemiology & Infection, 146(14), 1854-1860. doi:10.1017/S0950268818001838
Rivers, C., Trotochaud, M., Martin, E., Sauer, L. Evaluation of the UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data. (2019). Commissioned report for UN stakeholders; not publicly available.
Rivers, C., Cicero, A., Connell, N., Trotochaud, M., Warmbrod, L., Song, J., Inglesby, T., Zhang, W. (2019). Biosafety and Biosecurity in the Era of Synthetic Biology: Perspectives from the United States and China. Meeting report. https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs\_archive/pubs-pdfs/2019/190916-ChinaUSmtgReport.pdf.
Watson, C., Kirk Sell, T., Watson, M., Rivers, C., Hurtado, C., Shearer, M., Gelata, A., Inglesby, T. (2018). Technologies to address Global Catastrophic Biological Risks. Monograph.