Bhramar Mukherjee

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Crowded Villages Show Why Virus Cases Are Surging in Rural India

Bhramar Mukherjee featured in Bloomberg

As India passes the grim milestone of two million virus cases and new hotspots emerge in villages, experts are worried infections will now rise exponentially in the world’s second-most populous country, overwhelming its under-prepared hinterland.

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IN THE NEWS: Sprawling Countries Find Coronavirus Hard to Contain

Bhramar Mukherjee quoted in the Wall Street Journal

Most-populous nations including the US, Brazil, and India face challenges such as multiple outbreaks and the need for millions of tests, with only China making major strides to dial back the pandemic. Bhramar Mukherjee explains the unique factors that India is facing during the coronavirus pandemic.

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India's Coronavirus Cases Increase as National Government Relaxes Rules

Q&A with Bhramar Mukherjee

Despite India's drastic nine-week shutdown and amid relaxing restrictions, the country now has the fourth-largest number of coronavirus cases in the world. Professor and chair of Biostatistics Bhramar Mukherjee offers an update on the trend and how a group of researchers are developing models to visualize the data.

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Coronavirus Modeling, Impact on India's Pandemic Response

Q&A with Bhramar Mukherjee

Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor and chair of biostatistics at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, leads a team of researchers that, as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded around the world, used standard epidemiologic models to do a situational assessment of the crisis in India—providing real-time data for authorities to assist leadership in addressing this global pandemic.