Mathematics of Public Health

Preface.- Mathematical models: perspectives of mathematical modelers and public health professionals.- Discovering first-principle of behavioural change in disease transmission dynamics by deep learning.- Understanding Epidemic Multi-Wave Patterns via Machine Learning Clustering and the Epidemic Renormalization Group.- Contact Matrices in Compartmental Disease Transmission Models.- An optimal control approach for public health interventions on an Epidemic-Viral model in deterministic and stochastic environments.- Modeling airborne disease dynamics: progress and questions.- Modelling mutation-driven emergence of drug-resistance: a case study of SARS-CoV-2.- A Categorical Framework for Modeling with Stock and Flow Diagrams.- Agent-Based Modeling and its Tradeoffs: An Introduction & Examples.- Mathematical assessment of the role of interventions against SARS-CoV-2.- Long term dynamics of COVID-19 in a multi-strain model.

Jummy David is currently a public health analytics and modeling fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA. Prior to CDC, she was a postdoctoral fellow at York University, and obtained her PhD (2020) and Master's degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is an applied mathematician, a computational and research-driven scientist with in-depth, hands-on advanced mathematical modeling and simulation methods. She is great at leveraging on analytics and quantitative experiences to develop and analyze mechanistically relevant mathematical models, PK/PD models, and health economic models. Results of her modeling and simulation analysis are used to evaluate, forecast, predict, optimize and accelerate policy designs toward improving decision making in public health, medicine, computational biology and science.

 Jianhong Wu is the founding Director of the Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and theInaugural Director of the York Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Response, and Governance Institute. He holds the life-time title of University Distinguished Research Professor, the Canada Research Chair (2001-2022) and York Research Chair (2022-) in Industrial and Applied Mathematics at York University. He was also awarded the NSERC/Sanofi Industrial Research Chair in Vaccine Mathematics, Modelling and Manufacturing in 2017-2022. He is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He received the 2003 Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society's Research Prize and the 2019 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize, for his contribution to the following fields: nonlinear dynamics and delay differential equations; neural networks and pattern recognition; mathematical ecology and epidemiology; big data analytics.