Epidemic Wave Dynamics Attributable to Urban Community Structure: A Theoretical Characterization of Disease Transmission in a Large Network

Anne G Hoen   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Thomas J Hladish   ^{4, 5 *} , PhD ;   Rosalind M Eggo   ⁵ , PhD ;   Michael Lenczner   ⁶ , BSc ;   John S Brownstein   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Lauren Ancel Meyers   ^{5, 7 *} , PhD

¹ Computational Epidemiology Group, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

³ Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States

⁴ Emerging Pathogens Institute, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

⁵ Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

⁶ Île Sans Fil, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁷ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States

*these authors contributed equally