PrefacePeter Hotez:
1: Benjamin Roche, Thierry Baldet and Frédéric Simard: Infectious
diseases in low-income countries: Where are we now?
2: Frédéric Pagès, Dominique Maison and Michael Faulde: Current
control strategies for infectious diseasesin low income
countries
3: Rebecca Grais: Research in crises: overcoming obstacles and
lessons for the future
Benjamin Roche, Hélène Broutin and Frédéric Simard: Afterword I:
The burden
4: Cécile Viboud, Hélène Broutin and Gerardo Chowell:
Spatial-temporal transmission dynamics and control of infectious
diseases: Ebola virus disease (EVD) as a case study
5: Rodolphe E. Gozlan and Marine Combe: Environmental change and
pathogen transmission
6: Anne-Laure Bañuls, Van Anh Thi Nguyen, Quang Huy Nguyen, Ngoc
Anh Thi Nguyen, Hoang Huy Tran and Sylvain Godreuil: Antimicrobial
resistance: the 70-year arms race between Humans and Bacteria
7: Jessica Lynn Webster and Marco Vignuzzi: Viral evolution and
impact for public health strategies in low-income countries
Benjamin Roche, Hélène Broutin and Frédéric Simard: Afterword II:
Fundamental knowledge
8: Matthew Ferrari: Using Disease Dynamics and Modeling to Inform
Control Strategies in Low-Income Countries
9: Paul W. Ewald: Evolutionary control of infectious disease in
low-income countries
10: Mathieu Nacher: Using pathogen interactions: challenges and
opportunities
11: Patrick Mavingui, Claire Valiente Moro and Pablo Tortosa:
Exploiting symbiotic interactions for vector/disease control
12: Heather Ferguson, Patrick Brock and Steve Torr: Host species
diversity and the transmission of vector-borne disease in low
income countries
Benjamin Roche, Hélène Broutin and Frédéric Simard: Afterword III:
Tunable methods
13: Marco Pombi, David Modiano and Gilberto Corbellini: Malaria
eradication in Italy: the story of a first success
14: Andres Garchitorena, Matthew H. Bonds, Jean-Francois Guégan and
Benjamin Roche: Interactions between ecological and socio-economic
drivers of Buruli ulcer burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Opportunities
for an improved control.
15: Isabel Jones, Andrea Lund, Gilles Riveau, Nicolas Jouanard,
Raphael A. Ndione, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo:
Ecological control of schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa:
restoration of predator-prey dynamics to reduce transmission
Benjamin Roche, Hélène Broutin and Frédéric Simard: Afterword IV:
Case studies
16: Eve Miguel, Florence Fournet, Serge Yerbanga, Nicolas Moiroux,
Franck Yao, Timothée Vergne, Bernard Cazelles, Roch K. Dabiré,
Frédéric Simard and Benjamin Roche: Optimizing public health
strategies in low-income countries: Epidemiology, ecology and
evolution for the control of malaria.
17: Jan Slingenbergh, Giuliano Cecchi and Marjan Leneman: Human
activities and disease transmission: the agriculture case
18: Matthew H. Bonds, Andres Garchitorena, Paul E. Farmer and Megan
B. Murray: Ecology of Poverty, Disease and Health Care Delivery:
Lessons for Planetary Health
19: Dominique Kerouedan: African and global health care prospects:
The importance of the use of knowledge
20: Benjamin Roche, Hélène Broutin and Frédéric Simard, on behalf
of all authors: Optimizing public health strategies in low-income
countries: The challenge to apply the scientific knowledge and for
which disease?
AfterwordAwa Marie Coll Seck and Ibrahima Seck:
Benjamin Roche is a researcher at the French National Research
Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) in Montpellier, France.
His work has mostly focused on the study of diversity involved in
infectious diseases, from diversity of hosts (i.e., dilution
effect) to the diversity of pathogens (through phylodynamics of
influenza viruses) through diversity of transmission modes
(consequences of direct and environmental transmission of influenza
viruses and Buruli
ulcer). He is also working on vector control strategies against
Chikungunya in French overseas territory and on prevention
strategies against Buruli ulcer in Cameroon. He is leading an
international
project aiming to develop an innovative conceptual and
methodological framework to envision optimal public health
strategies. He has published more than 60 papers in leading
international journals. Hélène Broutin is a researcher at CNRS (the
French National Center of Scientific Research) working on the
ecology of infectious diseases. She is currently based at the
University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal. Her principal
research focuses on vaccine preventable diseases in low
income countries, mainly in Africa. She uses a multidisciplinary
approach to identify the determinants (environmental, genetics,
genetic, and population) that drive the transmission dynamics of
infectious diseases,
and the impact of vaccination, with a specific focus on meningitis,
respiratory infections, pertussis, and measles. The final goal of
her research is to help improve vaccine strategies for a better
control of diseases in the long term in low income countries. She
is a member of the steering committee of MERIT (Meningitis
Environmental Risk Information Technologies), an international
experts group on meningitis in Africa led by WHO. She has published
more than 20 papers in international
journals. Frederic Simard is an expert in vector biology and
control working at the French National Research Institute for
Sustainable Development (IRD) in Montpellier, France. He has spent
15 years in
tropical Africa exploring the population biology, ecology, and
genetics of major mosquito disease vectors. Bridging field and lab
studies, medical entomology and evolution, he has been interested
in exploring issues related to local adaptation, speciation, and
transmission. He has published more than 160 papers in
peer-reviewed journals in diverse areas of molecular biology and
evolution, genetics and genomics, vector control, and tropical
medicine. He is a member of the editorial board of
several scientific journals and participates in scientific and
advisory committees for various national and international
institutions. In 2015, he was appointed Director of the MIVEGEC
research unit for 6
years by IRD, CNRS, and the University of Montpellier.
The cherry on the sundae is [...] the final chapter, in which the
editors deliver a synthesis that takes the form of a list of key
problems in public health that could be improved by applying
evolutionary ecology, complete with recommendations. The heads of
government — all heads of government — would do well to read
it.
*Fabrizio Spagnolo, Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology,
Columbia University, The Quarterly Review of Biology*
The material is very intuitively organized to facilitate a learning
progression, interspersing examples past and recent to help draw
connections from concepts and frameworks to real life events... The
book is accessible and insightful; it would be an excellent read
for undergraduate students, graduate students, new or experienced
researchers, and public health professionals across multiple
disciplines.
*Anthony Chui, Journal of Biology and Medicine*
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