Thread by @AdamJKucharski

Strange to think that two years ago, I was at TED2018 as a new @TEDFellow talking about pandemic planning, social contacts and privacy-focused apps to track people's interactions... 1/

Here are the two main studies I talked about:
- Our work on how social contacts shaped 2009 flu pandemic, with @SRileyIDD et al: journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…
- The large-scale BBC Pandemic citizen science project, with @petrakle @FryRsquared Julia Gog et al: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 2/

Of course, I wasn't particularly unique or prescient - pretty much everyone working on flu at the time was considering the possibility of a pandemic respiratory infection, and most modellers of such infections were thinking about social interactions in one form or another. 3/

For more on COVID-related insights from the BBC Pandemic project, see this piece by @petrakle: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 4/

As ever, we've built on work of many others, including:
-Analysis of contacts by @joel_mossong et al journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…
-UK interactions by @leondanon et al royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…
-Comparison of proximity sensors & surveys by @RossMastr et al journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… 5/5