Why model malaria? Disease dynamics in a changing world

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Presentation Date

10-25-2007

Abstract

Malaria is a complex vector-borne disease and a major public health burden in endemic regions of the tropics. Non-endemic regions have shown pronounced patterns of increase in incidence and re-emergence in the past three decades. Despite extensive knowledge accumulated for almost a a century on the biology of both the parasite and the mosquito vector, the reasons for these patterns of exacerbation are not well understood. Climate change, human migrations, and drug resistance are different hypotheses but evaluating these mechanisms from time series data remains elusive. In this talk, by using data from East African highlands, I present ongoing work on a mosquito-human coupled model to start answering some of these questions.

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Department of Computer Sciences & Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series

Thursday, 25 October 2007
3:30 p.m. Refreshments in Math Lounge 109

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