Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

This is an introduction to the special issue titled “Vaccination and epidemics in networked
populations” that is in the making at Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. While vaccination is …

This volume summarizes the state-of-the-art in the fast growing research area of modeling
the influence of information-driven human behavior on the spread and control of infectious …

It is increasingly recognized that a key component of successful infection control efforts is
understanding the complex, two-way interaction between disease dynamics and human …

Certain theories suggest that it should be difficult or impossible to eradicate a vaccine-
preventable disease under voluntary vaccination: Herd immunity implies that the individual …

BACKGROUND Despite many notable successes in prevention and control, infectious
diseases remain an enormous threat to human and animal health. The ecological and …

Previous game-theoretic studies of vaccination behavior typically have often assumed that
populations are homogeneously mixed and that individuals are fully rational. In reality, there …

We use a lattice-based epidemic model to study the spatial and temporal rates of disease
spread in a spatially distributed host population. The prevalence of the disease in the …

The move toward precision medicine has highlighted the importance of understanding
biological variability within and across individuals in the human population. In particular …

Mathematics has long been an important tool for understanding and controlling the spread
of infectious diseases. Here, we begin with an overview of compartmental models, the …