AIM Workshop: Multi-scale modeling of malaria

This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to the modeling of malaria to assess the role of heterogeneity in disease dynamics. Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases globally, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Since the early 1900s, mathematical modeling has been a critical component of malaria research, suggesting optimal interventions

Topics: The main topics for the workshop are: Modeling the generation, emergence, and persistence of malaria parasite diversity; Describing the emergence and spread of drug resistance in parasite populations and insecticide resistance in mosquito populations, and the impact on disease spread; Building a framework to understand age-structured immune profiles and their variability with human movement; Quantifying the impact of immunity and parasite diversity on drug resistance evolution.