The emergence and reemergence of coronavirus epidemics sparked renewed concerns
from global epidemiology researchers and public health administrators. Mathematical …

Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent and/or control the outbreak of
infectious diseases. This medical intervention also brings about many logistical questions. In …

A recent manuscript (Ferguson et al. in Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to
reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand, Imperial College COVID-19 Response …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

Psychological interventions to treat mental health issues have developed remarkably in the
past few decades. Yet this progress often neglects a central goal—namely, to reduce the …

Most mathematical models for the spread of disease use differential equations based on
uniform mixing assumptions or ad hoc models for the contact process,,. Here we explore the …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a recently described illness of humans that
has spread widely over the past 6 months. With the use of detailed epidemiologic data from …

The aim of this study is to identify general properties of emerging infectious agents that
determine the likely success of two simple public health measures in controlling outbreaks …

The basic reproductive ratio, R 0, is defined as the expected number of secondary infections
arising from a single individual during his or her entire infectious period, in a population of …

The systems modeling methodology of system dynamics is well suited to address the
dynamic complexity that characterizes many public health issues. The system dynamics …