Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "General Virology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 1340
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational epidemiology; viral epidemiology; infectious diseases
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Interests: infectious disease dynamics; epidemiology; Bayesian modeling; machine learning; immunology; pathogen evolution
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Interests: infectious disease modeling; healthcare analytics; operations research; medical decision making; outcomes research; computational biology; public health
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Interests: mathematical modeling of infectious diseases; contact network epidemiology; network science; computational biology
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Interests: computational epidemiology; viral epidemiology; infectious diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To understand the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of infectious diseases (e.g., COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, arboviruses, human papillomavirus, and human immunodeficiency virus), epidemiologists and mathematical modelers are continuously developing new methods to characterize transmission patterns and transmission mechanisms, estimate infection and disease burdens, reconstruct transmission history, forecast disease trends and healthcare demands, and evaluate the effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of intervention policies (e.g., mass testing, vaccination champions, and stockpiling of antivirals). This Special Issue of Viruses welcomes submissions of epidemiological and infectious disease modeling studies. In particular, research that is relevant to the evaluation of the epidemiological and/or economic impacts of ramping up treatments using mass testing, existing or next-generation antivirals, and vaccinations is welcome.
This Special Issue aims to explore different research areas and to collect articles that focus on infectious disease epidemiology and transmission dynamics. Furthermore, we expect to gain more insight into the applications of such approaches in various areas such as public health, health economics, health informatics, evolution, immunity, and medical affairs.
We encourage the submission of high-quality original research, reviews, protocols, and perspective articles to this Special Issue. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Infectious disease epidemiology and transmission dynamics;
- Spatial and temporal transmission patterns of infectious diseases;
- Effects of pharmaceutical interventions such as mass testing, vaccines, or antivirals;
- Inference of key epidemiological parameters;
- Phylogenetics and phylodynamics;
- Seroepidemiology.
Dr. Zhanwei Du
Dr. Lin Wang
Dr. Zeynep Ertem
Dr. Jose Luis Herrera Diestra
Dr. Yuan Bai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- infectious disease epidemiology
- mathematical modeling
- computational epidemiology
- pharmaceutical interventions (e.g., mass testing, vaccination and antiviral)
- infection and fatality burden
- serology
- phylogenetics and phylodynamics
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