Brenda Latka, (Program Chair), DIMACS, latka@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Wayne Getz, UC Berkeley, getz@nature.berkeley.edu

Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca

Fritz Hahne, AIMS, fjwh@aims.ac.za

John Hargrove, SACEMA, jhargrove@sun.ac.za

Simon Levin, Princeton University, slevin@eno.princeton.edu

Edward Lungu, University of Botswana, lunguem@mopipi.ub.bw

Fred Roberts, DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Alex Welte, Wits University, awelte@cam.wits.ac.za

This Advanced Study Institute is jointly organized with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), and
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA).

This Advanced Study Institute is jointly sponsored by:

• African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
• DIMACS
• US National Science Foundation
• South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA)

The instructors of the advanced study institute have provided the following background material and lecture notes so that you may prepare yourself for the institute. If you have any problems downloading this material, please contact Linda Casals and we will email the documents needed.

• An Introduction to Optimal Control Applied to Immunology Problems
  Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, and John T. Workman, Cornell University

• Basic Methods for Modeling the Invasion and Spread of Contagious Diseases
  Wayne M. Getz, University of California, Berkeley, and James O. Lloyd-Smith

• Lecture Notes: Mathematical Epidemiology
  E. M. Lungu,University of Botswana, M. Kgosimore, Botswana College of Agriculture, and F. Nyabadza, University of Botswana

• The Mathematics of Infectious Diseases
  Herbert Hethcote

• Modeling the Invasion and Spread of Contagious Diseases in Heterogeneous Populations
  Wayne M. Getz, University of California, Berkeley, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Paul C. Cross,
  Shirli Bar-David, Philip L. Johnson, Travis C. Porco, and Maria S. Sanchez

• Optimal Control Applied to Disease Models
  Hem Raj Joshi, Xavier University, Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Michael Li, University of Alberta,
  and Liancheng Wang, Kennesaw State University

• Theoretical Assessment of Public Health Impact of Imperfect Prophylactic HIV-1 Vaccines with Therapeutic Benefits
  Elamin H. Elbasha, Merck, and Abba B. Gumel, University of Manitoba

• Readings from Jonathan Dushoff:
  Discussion Papers:
  • Dual Infection with HIV and Malaria Fuels the Spread of Both Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa by Laith J. Abu-Raddad, et. al.
    
    

    Correspondence:

    Population Increases in Serengeti National Park edited by Etta Kavanagh

    
    
  • Beneficial and perverse effects of isoniazid preventive therapy for latent tuberculosis infection in HIV-tuberculosis coinfected populations by Ted Cohen, Marc Lipsitch, Rochelle P. Walensky, and Megan Murray
  • The Role of Mathematical Modeling in Evidence-Based Malaria Control by F. Ellis McKenzie and Ebrahim M. Samba
  
  References:
  • On the time to Extinction in Recurrent Epidemics by Ingemar Nasell
  
  Lectures and Slides:
  • Demographic stochasticity
  • Demographic stochasticity Notes
  • Population heterogeneity
  • Population heterogeneity Notes

• Readings from Martin Meltzer:
  • Cost-effectiveness of hepatitis B vaccination of prison inmates by Maria Pisu, Martin Isaac Meltzer, Rob Lyerla
  • The Economic Impact of Pandemic Influenza in the United States: Priorities for Intervention by Martin I. Meltzer, Nancy J. Cox, and Keiji Fukuda
  • Risks and Benefits of Preexposure and Postexposure Smallpox Vaccination1 by Martin I. Meltzer
  • Modeling Potential Responses to Smallpox as a Bioterrorist Weapon by Martin I. Meltzer, Inger Damon, James W. LeDuc, and J. Donald Millar
  • The Cost Effectiveness of Vaccinating against Lyme Disease by Martin I. Meltzer, David T. Dennis, and Kathleen A. Orloski
  • Mathematical Modeling Guidelines

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