Modeling the interplay between mosquito behavioral adaptation, human behavior, social economic factors and Malaria control We present a study of the interplay between mosquito behavioral adaptation, bed-nets efficacy decay and coverage, human behavior, and malaria to control strategies. The development of insecticide resistance to the common insecticides in increasing in intensity threatening the gains made …

Land use change, disease, and population growth in subsistence agriculture: escaping the curse of poverty trap The extremely poor generally rely on their immediate natural environment for subsistence and suffer high rates of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases. We present a framework for modeling the ecology of poverty, focusing on the exemplar drivers: …

Modeling the Seasonal Transmission Dynamics of Measles Measles, a highly contagious infection caused by the measles virus, is a major public-health problem worldwide. Since the monthly data of measles cases exhibit a seasonally fluctuating pattern, based on the measles model in Earn et al. (Science 287(2000), 667-670) we propose a susceptible, exposed, infectious, and recovered (SEIR) model with periodic …