Respiratory Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Respiratory infectious diseases pose a significant global health burden, accounting for many associated infections and high severity, highlighting the continuous need for effective, proactive, and timely interventions to control or mitigate the spread of diseases. These interventions, through public health and social measures (PHSMs) and vaccination schemes, were found to have clear data-driven capabilities in mitigating respiratory viruses, including influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

The detailed data on the recent COVID-19 pandemic have raised several research questions at various levels of infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. At the parametric level, it is highlighted with regard to the improvement in the inference of epidemiological parameters and their time-varying characteristics across the outbreak’s span. Such temporal parametric information could allow us to assess the impacts of these PHSMs better and, thus, provide better real-time intervention policies. Furthermore, the epidemiological dynamics and the characteristics of these respiratory viruses would be interesting to assess during the post-COVID-19 pandemic period, accounting for their coexistence and co-circulation.

In this Special Issue, we welcome submissions of studies covering topics including, but not limited to, the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of these respiratory diseases and their control strategies, impact assessments of these interventions, predictions of population immunity, and the dynamics and disease burdens of these respiratory viruses during the pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic periods. We also welcome original research using qualitative and quantitative data, meta-analyses, or systematic reviews, as well as various types of study including brief research reports, perspectives, general commentaries, methodologies, and policy briefs.

Dr. Sheikh Taslim Ali
Dr. Jing X. Kersey
Dr. Li Li
Guest Editors

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• respiratory diseases
• epidemiology
• dynamics
• prediction
• mitigation and control
• public health policy