Nishant Kishore

4,087 citations

15 h-index

17 i10-index

Selected work

Early COVID-19 clinical severity estimates from Wuhan transmission dynamics

Most cited 1,758 citations 2020

Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China

Wu JT, Leung K, Bushman M, Kishore N, et al.

Most-cited epidemiological analysis of early COVID-19 clinical severity

Excess mortality by municipality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Policy impact 988 citations 2018

Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Kishore N, Marqués D, Mahmud A, Kiang MV, et al.

Prompted federal review of U.S. disaster mortality accounting

Nature Communications

Methods foundation 520 citations 2020

The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of COVID-19 pandemic epidemiology

Grantz KH, Meredith HR, Cummings DA, Kishore N, et al.

Established the framework for mobility data in outbreak response

MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Global surveillance 28 citations 2024

Surveillance to track progress toward polio eradication

Kishore N, et al.

Reports on the surveillance infrastructure behind the international polio eradication effort

Nature Computational Science

Independent research 9 citations 2021

Mobility data as a proxy for epidemic measures

Kishore N

Sole-authored — his own argument for how mobility data should be used in outbreak response

From the Data

NYC borough choropleth maps showing COVID-19 prevalence vs. commuting decline, with inverse correlation

Reductions in commuting mobility correlate with geographic differences in SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in New York City

Nature Communications 2020 Paper ↗

Relative population change per municipality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, showing smaller municipalities lost the largest share of residents

Quantifying the dynamics of migration after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 Paper ↗

Percent change in urban population across US cities (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, LA, Miami, NYC, San Diego, Seattle) during March–May 2020 COVID lockdowns

Lockdowns result in changes in human mobility which may impact the epidemiologic dynamics of SARS-CoV-2

Scientific Reports 2021 Paper ↗

Scatter plots showing mobility metrics as predictors of Rt across 4 time windows — correlation degrades from weeks 8–11 to weeks 20–24 as behavioral adaptation sets in

Evaluating the reliability of mobility metrics from aggregated mobile phone data as proxies for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA

The Lancet Digital Health 2021 Paper ↗

Cell tower movement map of Iceland overlaid with 2009 H1N1 epidemic curve, linking mobility data to influenza spread

Cell-phone traces reveal infection-associated behavioral change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021 Paper ↗

All Publications

2026

Effectiveness of evacuation notices on household evacuation behavior during floods in Kerala, India

Research Square (preprint) Gera S, Bhatt M, Pathak V, MS A, Kishore N, Balsari S

2024

A systematic review of using population-level human mobility data to understand SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Nature Communications Kishore N, et al.

Evaluating geospatial sampling frames with a novel field census for a malaria household survey in Artibonite, Haiti

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Hamre KES, Dismer AM, Kishore N, Travers A, et al.

2023

A standardised differential privacy framework for epidemiological modeling with mobile phone data

PLOS Digital Health Savi MK, Yadav A, Zhang W, Vembar N, Schroeder A, Balsari S, Buckee CO, Kishore N, et al.

Effects of return-to-office, public schools reopening, and vaccination mandates on COVID-19 cases among municipal employee residents of New York City

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Greene SK, Tabaei BP, Culp GM, Levin-Rector A, Kishore N, Baumgartner J

Spatial clustering and risk factors for malaria infections from a household survey in Artibonite, Haiti

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Hamre KES, Dismer AM, Rogier E, van den Hoogen LL, Kishore N, et al.

2022

Reduced COVID-19 hospitalizations among New York City residents following age-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine eligibility: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Vaccine: X Greene SK, Levin-Rector A, McGibbon E, Baumgartner J, Kahn R, Kishore N, et al.

2021

Lockdowns result in changes in human mobility which may impact the epidemiologic dynamics of SARS-CoV-2

Scientific Reports Kishore N, Kahn R, Martinez PP, De Salazar PM, Mahmud AS, Buckee CO

Evaluating the reliability of mobility metrics from aggregated mobile phone data as proxies for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA

The Lancet Digital Health Kishore N, Taylor AR, Jacob PE, Vembar N, et al.

Cell-phone traces reveal infection-associated behavioral change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vigfusson Y, Karlsson TA, Onken D, Kishore N, et al.

2020

Reductions in commuting mobility correlate with geographic differences in SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in New York City

Nature Communications Kissler SM, Kishore N, Prabhu M, et al.

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Measuring mobility to monitor travel and physical distancing interventions: A common framework for mobile phone data analysis

The Lancet Digital Health Kishore N, Kiang MV, Engø-Monsen K, Vembar N, et al.

133

Quantifying the dynamics of migration after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Acosta RJ, Kishore N, Irizarry RA, Buckee CO

106

Food security and human mobility during the COVID-19 lockdown

Harvard Business School Working Paper Choudhury P, Koo WW, Li X, Kishore N, Balsari S, Khanna T

Using AI to help healthcare professionals stay up-to-date with medical research

AI for Social Good (AI4SG) Workshop, NeurIPS de Bie K, Kishore N, Rentsch A, Rosado P, Sipka A

2019

Flying, phones and flu: Anonymized call records suggest that Keflavik International Airport introduced pandemic H1N1 into Iceland in 2009

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Kishore N, Mitchell R, Lash TL, Reed C, Danon L, Sigmundsdóttir G, Vigfusson Y

2015

The roles of technology in primary HIV prevention for men who have sex with men

Current HIV/AIDS Reports Sullivan PS, Jones J, Kishore N, Stephenson R