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Laura F. White
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 168
Citations - 5302
Laura F. White is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 140 publications receiving 3649 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura F. White include Harvard University & Tufts University.
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Practical considerations for measuring the effective reproductive number, Rt.
Katelyn M. Gostic,Lauren McGough,Edward B. Baskerville,Sam Abbott,Keya Joshi,Christine Tedijanto,Rebecca Kahn,Rene Niehus,James A. Hay,Pablo Martinez de Salazar,Joel Hellewell,Sophie Meakin,James D Munday,Nikos I Bosse,Katharine Sherrat,Robin N Thompson,Robin N Thompson,Laura F. White,Jana S. Huisman,Jérémie Scire,Jérémie Scire,Sebastian Bonhoeffer,Tanja Stadler,Tanja Stadler,Jacco Wallinga,Sebastian Funk,Marc Lipsitch,Sarah Cobey +27 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this document is to summarize challenges of estimation of the effective reproductive number Rt, illustrate them with examples from synthetic data, and, where possible, make recommendations.
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Air pollution and incidence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in black women living in Los Angeles.
Patricia F. Coogan,Laura F. White,Michael Jerrett,Robert D. Brook,Jason Su,Edmund Seto,Richard T. Burnett,Julie R. Palmer,Lynn Rosenberg +8 more
TL;DR: Exposure to air pollutants, especially traffic-related pollutants, may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus and possibly of hypertension.
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Effect of parents' wartime deployment on the behavior of young children in military families.
TL;DR: For example, this article found that children aged 3 years or older with a deployed parent exhibit increased behavioral symptoms compared with peers without a deployed parents after controlling for caregiver's stress and depressive symptoms.
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Effect of Parents' Wartime Deployment on the Behavior of Young Children in Military Families. Commentary
Molinda M. Chartrand,Deborah A. Frank,Laura F. White,Timothy R. Shape,David J. Schonfeld,Robin H. Gurwitch +5 more
TL;DR: This study is the first to show that children aged 3 years or older with a deployed parent exhibit increased behavioral symptoms compared with peers without a deployedparent after controlling for caregiver's stress and depressive symptoms.
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Estimation of the reproductive number and the serial interval in early phase of the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in the USA
Laura F. White,Jacco Wallinga,Lyn Finelli,Carrie Reed,Steven Riley,Marc Lipsitch,Marcello Pagano +6 more
TL;DR: The United States was the second country to have a major outbreak of novel influenza A/H1N1 in what has become a new pandemic and appropriate public health responses to this pandemic depend in part on early estimates of key epidemiological parameters of the virus in defined populations.