Christian Selinger

Disease modeler

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Disease incidence and contact networks

A mathematician by trade, I have been working in disease modeling for the past 12 years.

Infectious disease dynamics are multi-scale by definition. The combination of pathogen or immune dynamics within a host and changing patterns of interactions between hosts during transmission result in rich population-level phenomena. Ranging from stochastic emergence and extinction, to structured and well-mixed epidemic processes, I am interested in applying mathematical and statistical concepts to answer questions from the angle of population health:

I have been mainly interested in pathogens and diseases affecting humans such as HIV, Influenza, Polio, HPV, Coronaviruses and Malaria.

I am currently employed at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.

selected publications

  1. The source of individual heterogeneity shapes infectious disease outbreaks
    Baptiste Elie, Christian Selinger, and Samuel Alizon
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences May 2022
  2. Predicting COVID-19 incidence in French hospitals using human contact network analytics
    Christian Selinger, Marc Choisy, and Samuel Alizon
    International Journal of Infectious Diseases Oct 2021
  3. Targeting and vaccine durability are key for population-level impact and cost-effectiveness of a pox-protein HIV vaccine regimen in South Africa
    Christian Selinger, Anna Bershteyn, Dobromir T. Dimitrov, and 7 more authors
    Vaccine Apr 2019
  4. Assessing the stability of polio eradication after the withdrawal of oral polio vaccine
    Michael Famulare, Christian Selinger, Kevin A. McCarthy, and 2 more authors
    PLOS Biology Apr 2018
  5. Cytokine systems approach demonstrates differences in innate and pro-inflammatory host responses between genetically distinct MERS-CoV isolates
    Christian Selinger, Jennifer Tisoncik-Go, Vineet D Menachery, and 7 more authors
    BMC Genomics Dec 2014