Optimised prophylactic vaccination in metapopulations

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dc.contributor.authorTeo, M.
dc.contributor.authorBean, N.
dc.contributor.authorRoss, J.V.
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractA highly effective method for controlling the spread of an infectious disease is vaccination. However, there are many situations where vaccines are in limited supply. The ability to determine, under this constraint, a vaccination strategy which minimises the number of people that become infected over the course of a potential epidemic is essential. Two questions naturally arise: when is it best to allocate vaccines, and to whom should they be allocated? We address these questions in the context of metapopulation models of disease spread. We discover that in practice it is generally optimal to distribute all vaccines prophylactically, rather than withholding until infection is introduced. For small metapopulations, we provide a method for determining the optimal prophylactic allocation. As the optimal strategy becomes computationally intensive to obtain when the population size increases, we detail an approximation method to determine an approximately optimal vaccination scheme. We find that our approximate strategy is consistently at least as good as three strategies reported in the literature across a wide range of parameter values.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityMingmei Teo, Nigel Bean, Joshua V. Ross
dc.identifier.citationEpidemics, 2021; 34:100420-1-100420-18
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.epidem.2020.100420
dc.identifier.issn1755-4365
dc.identifier.issn1878-0067
dc.identifier.orcidBean, N. [0000-0002-5351-3104]
dc.identifier.orcidRoss, J.V. [0000-0002-9918-8167]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/133726
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.rights© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2020.100420
dc.subjectFinal epidemic size; importation; stochastic model
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshVaccines
dc.subject.meshVaccination
dc.subject.meshEpidemics
dc.titleOptimised prophylactic vaccination in metapopulations
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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