Based on lecture notes, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to ideas and techniques in modeling infectious diseases, for the comparison of strategies to plan for an anticipated epidemic or pandemic, and to deal with a disease outbreak in real time.

Contributions by: L.J.S. Allen, C.T. Bauch, C. Castillo-Chavez, D. Earn, Z. Feng, M.A. Lewis, J. Li, M. Martcheva, M. Nuno, J. Watmough, M.J. Wonham, P. Yan