helios

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios is the god who personifies the Sun.

helios is a stochastic individual-based infectious disease transmission model that simulates the effect of far ultra-violet light emitters as a method for curtailing disease transmission. helios is built using the individual package developed at the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.

Installation

You can install the development version of helios from GitHub using:

devtools::install_github("mrc-ide/helios")

Currently, we depend on a particular branch of the individual package, which you can install using:

devtools::install_github("mrc-ide/individual@feat/logi_size")

Vignettes

• Get started gives an introduction to use of the package
• Technical model description gives a more detailed description of the model

Working reports

• May 2024: Assessing far UVC interventions with an individual based infectious disease model introduces the helios package and demonstrates its application in simulating installation of far UVC interventions and their impact on disease dynamics
• July 2024: Update to “assessing far UVC interventions with an individual based infectious disease model” describes two updates to our initial model
• September 2025: The Impact of Far UVC Interventions on the Burden of a Respiratory Virus