Comprehensive Profiling of Social Mixing Patterns in Pakistan
Principal Investigator: Dr. Abdul Momin Kazi
Co-PI: Dr. Saad B. Omer, Dr. Benjamin Lopman
Funded by: National Institute of Health (NIH)
Project duration: Approximately 20 months
Project sites: Two: Ali Akbar Shah Goth in Karachi (Urban Site) and Matiari (rural site) in Pakistan
Primary objectives:
- Comprehensively profile the social contacts of young infants with their household members using wearable proximity sensing devices.
- Validate the contact-diary based data using the proximity sensor.
- Investigate whether demographic (e.g., age, sex, family composition, occupation etc.), social (e.g., school attendance etc.) economic (e.g., rural vs urban residence) and biologic characteristics are predictors for the frequency and nature of both physical and non-physical contacts among study participants
- Determine the predictors of infectious disease spread among study population using specific infectious disease scales
- Build age-specific contact matrices using social contact diary and sensor-based data collected from participants
- Create an aggregated contact network database using the social contact diary and sensor-based data collected from participants
- To assess adherence to government recommendations regarding social and physical distancing, mask wearing, and hand hygiene measures in place against SARS-COV-2 transmission
