Why model malaria?
The past 30 years have seen little tangible progress in alleviating the worldwide burden of malaria. Ellis McKenzie here discusses some of the history, problems and prospects of mathematical models of malaria, and the contributions that models might make towards progress. He argues that models can be powerful tools for integrating information from different disciplines, and that advances in computer modeling can complement and extend classic approaches.
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Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory, Harvard University, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. infdis@deas.harvard.edu
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