AGENTS
Malaria transmission in some place can be understood as a complex adaptive system arising from non-linear interactions among local populations of mosquitoes, pathogens, hosts, and malaria managers. In the following sections, we present dynamical systems describing each one of these agents.
Human Malaria Epidemiology – An overview of models of malaria exposure, infection, disease, & infectiousness with discussions of treatment and chemoprotection, diagnostics and detection, and malaria vaccines.
Parasite Transmission – A look at blood feeding by adult mosquitoes and parasite transmission in populations. We set up a framework for understanding malaria transmission that can be extended to analyze models of malaria that are realistic enough for malaria policy.
Mosquito Ecology – Mosquito behavior and ecology, including population dynamics, are important for understanding malaria transmission dynamics and control. This section looks at mosquito ecology in detail.
Malaria Control – To be useful, theory of malaria transmission needs theory for malaria control, including concepts like effects, effect sizes, adjusted reproductive numbers, coverage, and response timelines.