Peer Reviewed Publications – Covid-19

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• Yiqing Xia, Jorge Luis Flores Anato, Caroline Colijn, Naveed Janjua, Mike Irvine, Tyler Williamson, Marie B Varughese, Michael Li, Nathaniel Osgood, David J D Earn, Beate Sander, Lauren E Cipriano, Kumar Murty, Fanyu Xiu, Arnaud Godin, David Buckeridge, Amy Hurford, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (2024) Canada’s provincial COVID-19 pandemic modelling efforts: A review of mathematical models and their impacts on the responses. Can J Public Health 115: 541–557.

• Souradet Y Shaw, Jeffery C S Biegun, Stella Leung, Shajy Isac, Helgar K Musyoki, Mary Mugambi, Japheth Kioko, Janet Musimbi, Kennedy Olango, Samuel Kuria, Martin K Ongaro, Jeffrey Walimbwa, Faran Emmanuel, James Blanchard, Michael Pickles, Sharmistha Mishra, Marissa L Becker, Lisa Lazarus, Robert Lorway, Parinita Bhattacharjee (2024) Describing the effect of COVID-19 on sexual and healthcare-seeking behaviours of men who have sex with men in three counties in Kenya: a cross-sectional study. Sex Transm Infect.

• L Wang, S Swayze, K Bodner, A Calzavara, SP Harrigan, A Siddiqi, SD Baral, PC Austin, J Smylie, M Koh, H Sbihi, B Sander, JC Kwong, S Mishra (2024) Social inequalities in COVID-19 deaths by area-level income: patterns over time and the mediating role of vaccination in a population of 11.2 million people in Ontario, Canada. medRxiv.

• S Wu, Y Li, SD Baral, S Mishra, M Koh, H Golding, JC Kwong, X Wei (2024) Protection of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 boosters, and hybrid immunity against Omicron severe illness: a population-based cohort study of five million residents in Canada. PLoS One 19(2): e0299304.

• Y Xia, JF Flores Anat, C Colijin, N Janjua, M Irvine, T Williamson, MB Varughese, M Li, N Osgood, DJD Earn, B Sander, LE Cipriano, K Murty, F Xiu, A Godin, D Buckeridge, A Hurford, S Mishra, M Maheu-Giroux (2024) Canada’s provincial COVID-19 pandemic modelling efforts: a review of mathematical models and their impacts on the responses. Can J Public Health 115(4): 541-557.

• L Richard, R Nisenbaum, K Colwill, S Mishra, RM Dayam, M Liu, C Pedersen, A Gingras, SW Hwang (2024) Enhancing detection of SARS-CoV-2 re-infections using longitudinal sero-monitoring: demonstration of a methodology in a cohort of people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada. BMC Infect Dis 24(1): 125.

• SP Harrigan, HA Velásquez García, Y Abdia, J Wilton, N Prystajecky, J Tyson, C Fjell, L Hoang, JC Kwong, S Mishra, L Wang, B Sander, NZ Janjua, H Sbihi (2024) The clinical severity of COVID-19 variants of concern: retrospective population-based analysis. JMIR Public Health Surveill 10: e45513.

• Sean P Harrigan, Chad D Fibke, Héctor A Velásquez García, Sunny Mak, James Wilton, Natalie Prystajecky, John Tyson, Linwei Wang, Beate Sander, Stefan Baral, Sharmistha Mishra, Naveed Z Janjua, Hind Sbihi (2024) The mediating role of SARS-CoV-2 variants between income and hospitalisation due to COVID-19: A period-based mediation analysis. Am J Epi.

• Mackenzie A Hamilton, Jesse Knight, Sharmistha Mishra (2024) Examining the influence of imbalanced social contact matrices in epidemic models. American Journal of Epidemiology 193(2): 339-347.

• Jorge Luis Flores Anato, Huiting Ma, Mackenzie A Hamilton, Yiqing Xia, Sam Harper, David Buckeridge, Marc Brisson, Michael P Hillmer, Kamil Malikov, Aidin Kerem, Reed Beall, Caroline E Wagner, Étienne Racine, Stefan Baral, Ève Dubé, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (2023) Impact of a vaccine passport on first-dose SARS-CoV-2 vaccine coverage by age and area-level social determinants of health in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario: an interrupted time series analysis. CMAJ Open 11(5): E995-E1005.

• Linwei Wang, Andrew Calzavara, Stefan Baral, Janet Smylie, Adrienne K Chan, Beate Sander, Peter C Austin, Jeffrey C Kwong, Sharmistha Mishra (2023) Differential Patterns by Area-Level Social Determinants of Health in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-Related Mortality and Non-COVID-19 Mortality: A Population-Based Study of 11.8 Million People in Ontario, Canada. Clinical Infectious Diseases 76(6): 1110-1120.

• Jorge Luis Flores Anato, Huiting Ma, Mackenzie A Hamilton, Yiqing Xia, Sam Harper, David Buckeridge, Marc Brisson, Michael P Hillmer, Kamil Malikov, Aidin Kerem, Reed Beall, Caroline E Wagner, Etienne Racine, Stefan Baral, Eve Dube, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (2023) Impact of a vaccine passport on first-dose COVID-19 vaccine coverage by age and area-level social determinants in the Canadian provinces of Québec and Ontario: an interrupted time-series analysis. CMAJ Open 11(5): e995-e1005.

• Mackenzie A Hamilton, Jesse Knight, Sharmistha Mishra (in-press) Examining the influence of imbalanced social contact matrices in epidemic models. American Journal of Epidemiology.

• Korryn Bodner, Jesse Knight, Mackenzie A Hamilton, Sharmistha Mishra (2023) Testing whether higher contact among the vaccinated can be a mechanism for observed negative vaccine effectiveness. American Journal of Epidemiology 192(8): 1335-1340.

• Derek R MacFadden, Colleen Maxwell, Dawn Bowdish, Susan Bronskill, James Brooks, Kevin Brown, Lori L Burrows, Anna Clarke, Bradley Langford, Elizabeth Leung, Valerie Leung, Doug Manuel, Allison McGeer, Sharmistha Mishra, Andrew M Morris, Caroline Nott, Sumit Raybardhan, Mia Sapin, Kevin L Schwartz, Miranda So, Jean-Paul R Soucy, Nick Daneman (2023) Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Is Associated With Reduced Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing in Older Adults With Confirmed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2: A Population-wide Cohort Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases 77(3): 362-370.

• Lilia Antonova, Chandy Somayaji, Jillian Cameron, Monica Sirski, Maria E Sundaram, James Ted McDonald, Sharmistha Mishra, Jeffrey C Kwong, Alan Katz, Stefan Baral, Lisa Caulley, Andrew Calzavara, Martin Corsten, Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki (2023) Comparison of socio-economic determinants of COVID-19 testing and positivity in Canada: A multi-provincial analysis. PLOS ONE 18(8): e0289292.

• Tania Bubela, Colleen M Flood, Kimberlyn McGrail, Sharon E Straus, Sharmistha Mishra (2023) How Canada’s decentralised covid-19 response affected public health data and decision making. BMJ 382: e075665.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Jennifer D Walker, Linda Wilhelm, Vincent Lariviere, Tania Bubela, Sharon E Straus (2023) Use and misuse of research: Canada’s response to COVID-19 and its health inequalities. BMJ 382: e075666.

• Korryn Bodner, Michael A Irvine, Jeffrey C Kwong, Sharmistha Mishra (2023) Observed negative vaccine effectiveness could be the canary in the coal mine for biases in observational COVID-19 studies. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 131: 111-114.

• Linwei Wang, Andrew Calzavara, Stefan Baral, Janet Smylie, Adrienne K Chan, Beate Sander, Peter C Austin, Jeffrey C Kwong, Sharmistha Mishra (2023) Differential Patterns by Area-Level Social Determinants of Health in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-Related Mortality and Non-COVID-19 Mortality: A Population-Based Study of 11.8 Million People in Ontario, Canada. Clinical Infectious Diseases 76(6): 1110-1120.

• Lucie Richard, Rosane Nisenbaum, Michael Brown, Michael Liu, Cheryl Pedersen, Jesse IR Jenkinson, Sharmistha Mishra, Stefan Baral, Karen Colwill, Anne-Claude Gingras, Allison McGeer, Stephen W Hwang (2023) Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada. JAMA Network Open 6(3): e232774.

• Wu Shishi, Li Yanhong, Mishra Sharmistha, Bodner Korryn, Baral Stefan, Kwong Jeffrey C, Wei Xiaolin (2023) Effect of the incremental protection of previous infection against Omicron infection among individuals with a hybrid of infection- and vaccine-induced immunity: a population-based cohort study in Canada. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 127: 69-76.

• Huiting Ma, Adrienne K Chan, Stefan D Baral, Christine Fahim, Sharon Straus, Beate Sander, Sharmistha Mishra (2023) Which curve are we flattening? The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among economically marginalized communities in Ontario, Canada, was unchanged from wild-type to omicron. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 10(1): ofac690.

• Mawuena Binka, Braeden Klaver, Georgine Cua, Alyson W Wong, Chad Fibke, Hector A Velasquez Garcia, Prince Adu, Adeera Levin, Sharmistha Mishra, Beate Sander, Hind Sbihi, Naveed Z Janjua (2022) An elastic net regression model for identifying long COVID patients using health administrative data: A population-based study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 9(12): ofac640.

• Shannon L Russell, Braeden RA Klaver, Sean P Harrigan, Kimia Kamelian, John Tyson, Linda Hoang, Marsha Taylor, Beate Sander, Sharmistha Mishra, Natalie Prystajecky, Naveed Z Janjua, James EA Zlosnik, Hind Sbihi (2022) Clinical severity of Omicron subvariants BA.1, BA.2, and BA.5 in a population-based cohort study in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Medical Virology 95(1): e28423.

• Huiting Ma, Kristy CY Yiu, Stefan D Baral, Christine Fahim, Gary Moloney, Dariya Darvin, David Landsman, Adrienne K Chan, Sharon Straus, Sharmistha Mishra (2022) COVID-19 Cases Among Congregate Care Facility Staff by Neighborhood of Residence and Social and Structural Determinants: Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 8(10): e34927.

• Isha Berry, Kevin A Brown, Sarah A Buchan, Karin Hohenadel, Jeffrey C Kwong, Samir Patel, Laura C Rosella, Sharmistha Mishra, Beate Sander (2022) A better normal in Canada will need a better detection system for emerging and re-emerging respiratory pathogens . Canadian Medical Association Journal 194(36): e1250-e1254.

• Yiqing Xia, Huiting Ma, David L Buckeridge, Marc Brisson, Beate Sander, Adrienne Chan, Aman Verma, Iris Ganser, Nadine Kronfli, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (2022) Mortality trends and length of stays among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Ontario and Québec (Canada): a population-based cohort study of the first three epidemic waves. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 121: 1-10.

• Stefan Baral, Amrita Rao, Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema, Carrie Lyons, Muge Cevik, Anna E Kagesten, Daouda Diouf, Annette H Sohn, Refilwe Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Gregorio Millett, Julia L Marcus, Sharmistha Mishra (2022) Competing health risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and early response: A scoping review. PLOS ONE 17(8): e0273389.

• Sean P Harrigan, James Wilton, Mei Chong, Younathan Abdia, Hector Velasquez Garcia, Caren Rose, Marsha Taylor, Sharmistha Mishra, Beate Sander, Linda Hoang, John Tyson, Mel Krajden, Natalie Prystajecky, Naveed Z Janjua, Hind Sbihi (2022) Clinical Severity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Omicron Variant Relative to Delta in British Columbia, Canada: A Retrospective Analysis of Whole-Genome Sequenced Cases. Clinical Infectious Diseases 76(3): e18-e25.

• Lucie Richard, Rosane Nisenbaum, Michael Liu, Allison McGeer, Sharmistha Mishra, Anne-Claude Gingras, Jennifer L Gommerman, Ruby Sniderman, Cheryl Pedersen, Olivia Spandier, Jesse IR Jenkinson, Stefan Baral, Cilia Mejia-Lancheros, Arnav Agarwal, Alainna J Jamal, Mario Ostrowski, Irfan Dhalla, Suzanne Stewart, Mikaela Gabriel, Michael Brown, Joe Hester, Stephen W Hwang (2022) Ku-gaa-gii pimitizi-win, the COVID-19 cohort study of people experiencing homelessness in Toronto, Canada: a study protocol. BMJ Open 12: e063234.

• David M Vickers, Stefan Baral, Sharmistha Mishra, Jeffrey C Kwong, Maria Sundaram, Alan Katz, Andrew Calzavara, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, David L Buckeridge, Tyler Williamson (2022) Stringency of containment and closures on the growth of SARS-CoV-2 in Canada prior to accelerated vaccine roll-out. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 118: 73-82.

• Mackenzie A Hamilton, Ying Liu, Andrew Calzavara, Maria E Sundaram, Mohamed Djebli, Dariya Darvin, Stefan Baral, Rafal Kustra, Jeffrey C Kwong, Sharmistha Mishra (2022) Predictors of all-cause mortality among patients hospitalized with influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, or SARS-CoV-2. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 16(6): 1072-1081.

• Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, Prasad Kasibhatla, Arnab Mukherjee, William Pan, Glenn Morrison, Sharmistha Mishra, Vijaya Kumar Murty (2022) Analysis of overdispersion in airborne transmission of COVID-19. Physics of Fluids 34: 51914.

• Yiqing Xia, Huiting Ma, Gary Moloney, Hector A Velasquez Garcia, Monica Sirski, Naveed Z Janjua, David Vickers, Tyler Williamson, Alan Katz, Kristy Yiu, Rafal Kustra, David L Buckeridge, Marc Brisson, Stefan D Baral, Sharmistha Mishra, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (2022) Geographic concentration of SARS-CoV-2 cases by social determinants of health in metropolitan areas in Canada: a cross-sectional study. Canadian Medical Association Journal 194(6): 195-204.

• Jesse Knight, Huiting Ma, Amir Ghasemi, Mackenzie Hamilton, Kevin Brown, Sharmistha Mishra (2022) Adaptive data-driven age and patch mixing in contact networks with recurrent mobility. MethodsX 9: 101614.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Huiting Ma, Gary Moloney, Kristy CY Yiu, Dariya Darvin, David Landsman, Jeffrey C Kwong, Andrew Calzavara, Sharon Straus, Adrienne K Chan, Effie Gournis, Heather Rilkoff, Yiqing Xia, Alan Katz, Tyler Williamson, Kamil Malikov, Rafal Kustra, Mathieu MaheuGiroux, Beate Sander, Stefan D Baral, COVID-19 Heterogeneity Research Group (2022) Increasing concentration of COVID-19 by socioeconomic determinants and geography in Toronto, Canada: an observational study . Annals of Epidemiology 65: 84-92.

• Holly O Witteman, Gabrielle Peters, Cassandra Vujovich-Dunn, Amine Ouertani, Sharmistha Mishra (preprint) Nothing about us without us: Canadian vaccine decision making must involve disabled people. OSF.

• Amrita Rao, Huiting Ma, Gary Moloney, Jeffrey C Kwong, Peter Juni, Beate Sander, Rafal Kustra, Stefan D Baral, Sharmistha Mishra (2021) A disproportionate epidemic: COVID-19 cases and deaths among essential workers in Toronto, Canada. Annals of Epidemiology 63: 63-67.

• Muge Cevik, Sharmistha Mishra (2021) SARS-CoV-2 variants and considerations of inferring causality on disease severity. Lancet Infectious Diseases 21(11): 1472-1474.

• Zain Chagla, Huiting Ma, Beate Sander, Stefan D Baral, Gary Moloney, Sharmistha Mishra (2021) Assessment of the Burden of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Among Essential Workers in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. JAMA Network Open 4(10): e2130284.

• Romain Silhol, Lily Geidelberg, Kate M Mitchell, Sharmistha Mishra, Dobromir Dimitrov, Anna Bowring, Luc Behanzin, Fernand Guedou, Souleymane Diabate, Sheree Schwartz, Serge C Billong, Iliassou Mfochive Njindam, Daniel Levitt, Christinah Mukandavire, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, Minttu M Ronn, Shona Dalal, Peter Vickerman, Stefan Baral, Michel Alary, Marie-Claude Boily (2021) Assessing the potential impact of disruptions due to COVID-19 on HIV among key and lower-risk populations in the largest cities of Cameroon and Benin. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 87(3): 899-911.

• Kevin A Brown, Eugene Joh, Sarah A Buchan, Nick Daneman, Sharmistha Mishra, Samir Patel, Troy Day (preprint) Inflection in prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections missing the N501Y mutation as a marker of rapid Delta (B.1.617.2) lineage expansion in Ontario, Canada. medRxiv.

• Maria E Sundaram, Andrew Calzavara, Sharmistha Mishra, Rafal Kustra, Adrienne K Chan, Mackenzie A Hamilton, Mohamed Djebli, Laura C Rosella, Tristan Watson, Hong Chen, Branson Chen, Stefan D Baral, Jeffrey C Kwong (2021) Individual and social determinants of SARS-CoV-2 testing and positivity in Ontario, Canada: a population-wide study. Canadian Medical Association Journal 193(20): e723-e734.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Stephen Mac, Raphael Ximenes, Kali Barrett, Yasin A Khan, David MJ Naimark, Beate Sander (2021) Modeling the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A comprehensive guide of infectious disease and decision-analytic models. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 132: 133-141.

• Austin Nam, Raphael Ximenes, Man Wah Yeung, Sharmistha Mishra, Jianhong Wu, Matthew Tunis, Beate Sander (preprint) Modelling the impact of extending dose intervals for COVID-19 vaccines in Canada. medRxiv.

• David Naimark, Sharmistha Mishra, Kali Barrett, Yasin A Khan, Stephen Mac, Raphael Ximenes, Beate Sander (2021) Simulation-Based Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Infections Associated With School Closures and Community-Based Nonpharmaceutical Interventions in Ontario, Canada. JAMA Network Open 4(3): e213793.

• Stefan David Baral, Katherine Blair Rucinski, Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema, Amrita Rao, Neia Prata Menezes, Daouda Diouf, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya, Sharmistha Mishra (2021) The relationship between the global burden of influenza from 2017 to 2019 and COVID-19: descriptive epidemiological assessment. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 7(3): e24696.

• Stefan Baral, Rebecca Chandler, Ruth Gil Prieto, Sunetra Gupta, Sharmistha Mishra, Martin Kulldorff (2021) Leveraging epidemiological principles to evaluate Sweden’s COVID-19 response. Annals of Epidemiology 54: 21-26.

• Arnaud Godin, Yiqing Xia, David L Buckeridge, Sharmistha Mishra, Dirk Douwes-Schultz, Yannan Shen, Maxime Lavigne, Melanie Drolet, Alexandra M Schmidt, Marc Brisson, Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (2021) The role of case importation in explaining differences in early SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in Canada – A mathematical modeling study of surveillance data. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 102: 254-259.

• Mackenzie A Hamilton, Andrew Calzavara, Scott D Emerson, Mohamed Djebli, Maria E Sundaram, Adrienne K Chan, Rafal Kustra, Stefan D Baral, Sharmistha Mishra, Jeffrey C Kwong (2021) Validating International Classification of Disease 10th Revision algorithms for identifying influenza and respiratory syncytial virus hospitalizations. PLOS ONE 16(1): e0244746.

• Jesse Knight, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Estimating effective reproduction number using generation time versus serial interval, with application to Covid-19 in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. Infectious Disease Modelling 5: 889-896.

• Linwei Wang, Huiting Ma, Kristy CY Yiu, Andrew Calzavara, David Landsman, Linh Luong, Adrienne K Chan, Rafal Kustra, Jeffrey C Kwong, Marie-Claude Boily, Stephen Hwang, Sharon Straus, Stefan D Baral, Sharmistha Mishra (2020) Heterogeneity in testing, diagnosis and outcome in SARS-CoV-2 infection across outbreak settings in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: an observational study. CMAJ Open 8(4): e627-e636.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Linwei Wang, Huiting Ma, Kristy CY Yiu, J Michael Paterson, Eliane Kim, Michael J Schull, Victoria Pequegnat, Anthea Lee, Lisa Ishiguro, Eric Coomes, Adrienne Chan, Mark Downing, David Landsman, Sharon Straus, Matthew Muller (2020) Estimated surge in hospital and intensive care admission because of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: a mathematical modelling study. CMAJ Open 8(3): e593-e604.

• Stefan D Baral, Sharmistha Mishra, Daouda Diouf, Nittaya Phanuphak, David Dowdy (2020) The public health response to COVID-19: balancing precaution and unintended consequences. Annals of Epidemiology 46: 12-13.

• Sharmistha Mishra, Jeffrey C Kwong, Adrienne K Chan, Stefan D Baral (2020) Understanding heterogeneity to inform the public health response to COVID-19 in Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal 192(25): e684-e685.