Social and behavioural factors are critical to the emergence, spread and containment of
human disease, and are key determinants of the course, duration and outcomes of disease …

COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared a
pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020. By mid-August 2020 …

Biomathematics has become one of the most significant areas of research as a result of
interdisciplinary study. Chronic diseases sometimes referred to as non-communicable and …

Zoonotic spillover, which is the transmission of a pathogen from a vertebrate animal to a
human, presents a global public health burden but is a poorly understood phenomenon …

The basic reproduction number, R nought (R 0), is defined as the average number of
secondary cases of an infectious disease arising from a typical case in a totally susceptible …

Social and cultural forces shape almost every aspect of infectious disease transmission in
human populations, as well as our ability to measure, understand, and respond to …

The coronavirus disease outbreak of 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading rapidly to all
corners of the word, in a very complex manner. A key research focus is in predicting the …

Ecosystems are self-regulating systems that provide societies with food, water, timber, and
other resources. As demands for resources increase, management decisions are replacing …

Over the past decade, the use of networks has led to a new modelling paradigm combining
several branches of science, including physics, mathematics, biology and social sciences …

Traditional economic theory could not explain, much less predict, the near collapse of the
financial system and its long-lasting effects on the global economy. Since the 2008 crisis …