Recent decades have witnessed several infectious disease outbreaks, including the
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which had catastrophic impacts on societies …

Background Malaria remains a significant public health challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA), particularly affecting under-five (UN5) children. Despite global efforts to control the …

Newly available datasets present exciting opportunities to investigate how human
population movement contributes to the spread of infectious diseases across large …

The Ross-Macdonald model has exerted enormous influence over the study of malaria
transmission dynamics and control, but it lacked features to describe parasite dispersal …

Background Since 2004, malaria transmission on Bioko Island has declined significantly as
a result of the scaling-up of control interventions. The aim of eliminating malaria from the …

Human mobility has challenged malaria elimination efforts and remains difficult to routinely
track. In Brazil, administrative records from the Ministry of Health allow monitoring of mobility …

Background Malaria is a major public health concern in Ethiopia, and its incidence could
worsen with the spread of the invasive mosquito species Anopheles stephensi in the …

Importation of malaria infections is a suspected driver of sustained malaria prevalence on
areas of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Quantifying the impact of imported infections is …

Network analysis may improve the understanding of malaria epidemiology in rural areas of
the Amazon region by explicitly representing the relationships between villages as a proxy …

Background Endemic African malaria vectors are poorly adapted to typical urban ecologies.
However, Anopheles stephensi, an urban malaria vector formerly confined to South Asia …