title: Mathematical modeling of infectious disease dynamics.
abstract: Over the last years, an intensive worldwide effort is speeding up the developments in the establishment of a global surveillance network for combating pandemics of emergent and re-emergent infectious diseases. Scientists from different fields extending from medicine and molecular biology to computer science and applied mathematics have teamed up for rapid assessment of potentially urgent situations. Toward this aim mathematical modeling plays an important role in efforts that focus on predicting, assessing, and controlling potential outbreaks. To better understand and model the contagious dynamics the impact of numerous variables ranging from the micro host-pathogen level to host-to-host interactions, as well as prevailing ecological, social, economic, and demographic factors across the globe have to be analyzed and thoroughly studied. Here, we present and discuss the main approaches that are used for the surveillance and modeling of infectious disease dynamics. We present the basic concepts underpinning their implementation and practice and for each category we give an annotated list of representative works.
authors.affiliation: School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. ksiet@mail.ntua.gr
authors.forename: Constantinos I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Siettos
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Russo
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical
keywords: agent-based models; dynamical models; machine learning models; mathematical epidemiology; statistical models
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