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Are we too focused on R0?
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Controlling Infectious Diseases »
Controlling Infectious Diseases
Controlling Infectious Diseases☜Mapping the issues around endemic diseases—such as malaria, measles, influenza, HIV, Dengue and West Nile Virus—with the aims of identifying improved control strategies and of providing insights into to the work of mathematical biologists, epidemiologists and public health officials in this field.☜F1CEB7
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Research Questions »
Research Questions
Research Questions☜What are the research priorities for the field?☜FFB597
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Open mathematical/computational problems? »
Open mathematical/computational problems?
Open mathematical/computational problems?☜☜FFB597
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Are we too focused on R0?
Are we too focused on R0?☜☜FFB597
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Convenient summary for policy makers »
Convenient summary for policy makers
Convenient summary for policy makers☜Policy makers like being able to reduce the characteristics of disease to a single number (even a point estimate of that single number)☜FFB597
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Focus on eradication »
Focus on eradication
Focus on eradication☜Politicians and funders like the idea of targeting massive resources toward eradication, with the promise that (unlike disease control) their commitment will be time-limited☜FFB597
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Mathematical convenience »
Mathematical convenience
Mathematical convenience☜Mathematical epidemiologists like R0 because one can often prove things about the threshold☜FFB597
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3/1/2011 11:08:00 PM
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