New mechanism-led renewal equations for infectious diseases

Renewal equations are one of the most popular ways to model outbreaks of infectious diseases and estimate key control indicators for decision-makers. This talk will focus on new mathematical methods that address where traditional renewal equations often fail to capture the human, biological, and environmental complexities of epidemics. These methods cover both directly transmitted and vector-borne diseases, describe epidemics on complex human mobility networks, and enable more targeted interventions across space and time.