Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health

Despite some notable successes in the control of infectious diseases, transmissible pathogens still pose an enormous threat to human and animal health. The ecological and evolutionary dynamics of infections play out on a wide range of interconnected temporal, organizational, and spatial scales, which span hours to months, cells to ecosystems, and local to global spread. Moreover, some pathogens are directly transmitted between individuals of a single species, whereas others circulate among multiple hosts, need arthropod vectors, or can survive in environmental reservoirs. Many factors, including increasing antimicrobial resistance, increased human connectivity and changeable human behavior, elevate prevention…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• G
  GlaxoSmithKline
• WT
  Wellcome Trust
• IN
  Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• NI
  National Institutes of Health
• SA
  Science and Technology Directorate
• MR
  Medical Research Council

  Award: MR/K021680/1
• EA
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Awards: EP/L001950/1, EP/J002437/2, EP/K026550/2
• FI
  Fogarty International Center
• DO
  Division of Mathematical Sciences