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  1. Picinini Freitas L, Carabali M, Schmidt AM, Salazar-Flórez JE, Ávila-Monsalve B, García-Balaguera C, Restrepo BN, Jaramillo-Ramirez GI, Zinszer K. “A nationwide joint spatial modelling of simultaneous epidemics of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika in Colombia, 2014-2016”. BMC Infectious Diseases, 25:406 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-10782-0
  2. Michal V, Schmidt AM, Freitas LP, Cruz OG. “A Bayesian hierarchical model for disease mapping that accounts for scaling and heavy-tailed latent effects”. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 34(2):307-321 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802241293776
  3. Freitas LP, Codeço CT, Bastos LS, Villela DAM, Cruz OG, Pacheco AG, Coelho FC, Lana RM, Carvalho LMF, Niquini RP, Almeida WAF, Silva DA, Carvalho FC, Gomes MFC. “Evaluation of the design of the influenza-like illness sentinel surveillance system in Brazil”. Reports in Public Health [Cadernos de SaĂșde PĂșblica], 40(6):e00028823 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311XEN028823
  4. Moreira RC, Bastos LS, Carvalho LM, Freitas LP, Pacheco AG. “Persistent high mortality rates for Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension after excluding deaths associated with COVID-19 in Brazil, 2020–2022”. PLOS Global Public Health 4(5): e0002576 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002576
  5. Picinini Freitas L, Douwes-Schultz D, Schmidt A, Monsalve BA, Salazar-Flórez JE, García-Balaguera C, Restrepo BN, Jaramillo-Ramirez GI, Carabali M, Zinszer K. “Zika emergence, persistence, and transmission rate in Colombia: a nationwide application of a space-time Markov switching model”. Scientific Reports, 14:10003 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59976-7
  6. Santos CVB, Valiati NCM, Noronha TG, Porto VBG, Pacheco AG, Freitas LP, Coelho FC, Gomes MFC, Bastos LS, Cruz OG, Lana RM, Luz PM, Carvalho LMF, Werneck GL, Struchiner CJ, Villela DAM. “The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against severe cases and deaths in Brazil from 2021 to 2022: a registry-based study”. The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, 20:100465 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2023.100465
  7. Freitas LP, Lowe R, Koepp AE, Valongueiro SA, Dondero M, Marteleto LJ. “Identifying hidden Zika hotspots in Pernambuco, Brazil: A spatial analysis”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 117(3):189–196 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trac099
  8. Freitas LP, Carabali M, Yuan M, Jaramillo-Ramirez GI, García-Balanguera C, Restrepo BN, Zinszer K. “Spatio-temporal clusters and patterns of spread of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika in Colombia”. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(8):e0010334 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010334
  9. Schmidt A, Freitas LP, Cruz OG, Carvalho MS. “A Poisson-multinomial spatial model for simultaneous outbreaks with application to arboviral diseases”. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 31(8):1590-1602 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802221102628
  10. Romeo-Aznar V, Freitas LP, Cruz OG, King AA, Pascual M. “Fine-scale heterogeneity in population density predicts wave dynamics in dengue epidemics”. Nature Communications, 13:996 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28231-w
  11. Lana RM, Freitas LP, Codeço CT, Pacheco AG, Carvalho LMF, Villela DAM, Coelho FC, Cruz OG, Niquini RP, Porto VBG, Gava C, Gomes MFC, Bastos LS. “Identification of priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil”. Reports in Public Health [Cadernos de SaĂșde PĂșblica], 37(10):e00049821 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00049821
  12. Freitas LP, Schmidt AM, Cossich W, Cruz OG, Carvalho MS. “Spatio-temporal modelling of the first Chikungunya epidemic in an intra-urban setting: The role of socioeconomic status, environment and temperature”. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(6):e0009537 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009537
  13. Carvalho MS, Freitas LP, Cruz OG, Brasil P, Bastos LS. “Association of past dengue fever epidemics with the risk of Zika microcephaly at the population level in Brazil”. Scientific Reports, 10:1752 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58407-7
  14. Freitas LP, Cruz OG, Lowe R, Carvalho MS. “Space-time dynamics of a triple epidemic: dengue, chikungunya and Zika clusters in the city of Rio de Janeiro”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286:20191867 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1867