TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges in Modelling Infectious Disease Dynamics
T2 - Preface
AU - Lloyd-Smith, James O.
AU - Mollison, Denis
AU - Metcalf, C. Jessica E.
AU - Klepac, Petra
AU - Heesterbeek, J. A.P.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge financial and infrastructural sponsoring from the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, fundamental to the success of this program. We are also grateful for the financial support the program received from the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) program of the Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Fogarty International Center, NIH. This programme marked the 20-year anniversary of a 1993 programme on ‘Epidemic Models’ at the Newton Institute, which played a major role in consolidating progress and charting a path forward for the field. Many readers of Epidemics will be familiar with the three ‘blue books’ that gathered the insights from this seminal gathering ( Mollison, 1995 ; Grenfell and Dobson, 1995 ; Isham and Medley, 1996 ). The 2013 programme began with a week-long symposium, at which an international roster of speakers described progress from the last 20 years and presented their vision of progress to come. This was followed by three weeks of close interactions and intensive discussions among a smaller group, focused on identifying the major challenges currently faced by the field. This volume presents the outcome of these and subsequent discussions.
PY - 2015/3/1
Y1 - 2015/3/1
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939936900&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84939936900&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.001
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 25843395
AN - SCOPUS:84939936900
VL - 10
SP - iii-iv
JO - Epidemics
JF - Epidemics
SN - 1755-4365
ER -