Overview
- Presents the progress made in terms of both the conceptual and practical advances made in addressing key gaps in parasite transmission modelling, the new understanding these have yielded regarding the transmission and control of these parasites, and the future challenges they portend for population dynamics modelling
- Captures some of the advances made in recent years and provides indications of ways forward for addressing these questions by shedding light on developments in conceptual frameworks and modelling tools as well as the emergence of new data forms for aiding model construction, testing and analysis
- Parallel development of robust computationally-intensive statistical
- methods to allow model testing and parameterization by aiding the fitting of models to complex data
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 673)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Modelling Parasite Transmission
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Applicat ion of Models to Parasite Control
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
EDWIN MICHAEL is currently a Senior Lecturer in infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College London, UK, with a research focus on modelling the transmission and control of tropical parasitic and infectious diseases. His main interest lies in developing a system dynamics approach to gaining a better understanding of parasite transmission, immunology, genetics and economics, in order to develop integrated mathematical models of pathogen transmission as a tool for aiding the rational design, monitoring and evaluation of large-scale intervention programmes, ranging from vector control, chemotherapy to vaccinations. He has worked extensively in Africa (primarily East Africa), India, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea, particularly over the past decade (in partnership with international (WHO, World Bank) and national institutions), in translating research on disease population biology, spatial dynamics and public health decision-making for developing reliable model-based spatial decision support tools to aid the design, surveillance and evaluation of ecologically resilient and sustainable intervention programmes against parasitic diseases of major public health importance in developing countries. His current interest is in extending this work to developing integrated ecological, economic and social systems approaches for investigating interactions between climate change, ecosystem dynamics and the socio-ecology of disease transmission in vulnerable communities.
ROBERT C. SPEAR is an engineer by training, having received the BS and MS degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanical Engineering, respectively, from the University of California at Berkeley and the PhD degree in Control Engineering from Cambridge University in 1968. After several years in the aerospace industry his interests turned to environmental issues and he returned to Berkeley in 1970 to take up a post-doctoral position in this field in the School of Public Health. He was appointed to a faculty position in 1971 and is now Professor of the Graduate School at Berkeley. His research interests focus on the assessment and quantification of human exposures to toxic and hazardous agents in the environment. His early work concerned the exposure of agricultural workers to pesticides. In more recent years his work has concerned applications of mathematical and statistical techniques in the assessment and control of exposures to both chemical and biological agents. For the past 15 years his work has been increasingly focused on determinants of the prevalence and control of the parasitic disease schistosomiasis in the mountainous regions of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modelling Parasite Transmission and Control
Editors: Edwin Michael, Robert C. Spear
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6064-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6063-4Published: 16 April 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2587-8Published: 27 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6064-1Published: 31 December 2010
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 212
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedicine general