COVIMOD
COVID Pandemic: Social Contacts and MODelling
- Tomori, D.V., Rübsamen, N., Berger, T., Scholz, S., Walde, J., Wittenberg, I., Lange, B., Mikolajczyk, R., Jaeger, V.K.#, Karch, A.# Individual social contact data reflected SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics during the first wave in Germany better than population mobility data – an analysis based on the COVIMOD study. BMC Medicine, 2021, 19(271). doi:10.1186/s12916-021-02139-6A
- Wong, K.L.M., Gimma, A., Paixao, E.S., CoMix Europe Working Group; Faes, C., Beutels, P., Hens, N., Jarvis, C.I., Edmunds, W.J. Pregnancy during COVID-19: social contact patterns and vaccine coverage of pregnant women from CoMix in 19 European countries. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth, 2022, 22(1):757. doi: 10.1186/s12884-022-05076-1
- Walde, J.*, Chaturvedi, M.*, Berger, T., Bartz, A., Killewald, R., Tomori, R., Rübsamen, N., Lange, B., Scholz, S., Treskova-Schwarzbach, M., Buksch, K., Jarvis, C.I., Mikolajczyk, R., Karch, A., Jaeger, V.K. Effect of risk status for severe COVID-19 on individual contact behaviour during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020/2021 - an analysis based on the German COVIMOD study. BMC Infect Dis, 2023, 23(1):205. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08175-2
- Wong, K.L.M., Gimma, A., Coletti, P., CoMix Europe Working Group, Faes, C., Beutels, P., Hens, N., Jaeger, V.K., Karch, A., Johnson, H., Edmunds, W.J., Jarvis, C.I. Social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 European countries – evidence from a two-year study. BMC Infect Dis, 2023, 23(1):268. doi:10.1186/s12879-023-08214-y.
- Dan, S., Chen, Y., Chen, Y., Monod, M., Jaeger, V.K., Bhatt, S., Karch, A., Ratmann, O. on behalf of the Machine Learning & Global Health network. Estimating fine age structure and time trends in human contact patterns from coarse contact data: the Bayesian rate consistency model. PLOS Comput Biol, 2023, 19(6):e1011191. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011191.
- Böff, L., Bartz, A., Harries, M., COVIMOD Consortium Group Berger Tom Chaturvedi Madhav Jarvis Christopher I. Rübsamen Nicole Scholz Stefan Walde Jasmin, Karch, A., Aigner, A., Jaeger, V.K., Lange, B. Dynamics of contact behaviour by self-reported COVID-19 vaccination and infection status during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: an analysis of two large population-based studies. BMC Med, 2025, 23(1):406. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04211-x
Project details
Responsible persons
Project period
Start: 2020
Cooperation partners
Robert Koch Institute
Institut für Medizinische Epidemiologie, Biometrie und Informatik, Universität Halle
IMISE, Universität Leipzig
LSTHM, London, UK
Imperial College, London, UK
University of Hasselt
RIVM, Netherlands
Funding
Intramural funds from Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, and of the Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Robert Koch Institute
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V. via the HZEpiAdHoc "The Helmholtz Epidemiologic Response against the COVID-19 Pandemic" project
Saxonian COVID-19 Research Consortium SaxoCOV
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the Network University Medicine (NUM) via the egePan Unimed project