Post-pandemic infectious disease landscapes: interactions across time and space

The PID-scapes project aims to study how infectious diseases affect another on a population level and how the pandemics of the late 19th and early 20th century affected the normal patterns in disease circulation. Overall the aim is to gain a better understanding of what happens with the landscape of infectious diseases during and after a pandemic.

The project focusses on Denmark where high quality data is available from this time period. During the project we will collect and digitize data on the number of people who got sick each month and week in different parts of Denmark, as well as individual patient journals. Advanced statistical models will be used to study how diseases interact over time and space, including their seasonality, timing, duration, and age patterns.

By using historical data and innovative data science methods, the project contributes to historical epidemiology and informs strategies for preventing and controlling infectious diseases. The project's findings can improve our understanding of disease spread and prepare us for the next pandemic.
Funded by: Sapere Aude: DFF-Forskningsleder/Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant