COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global health crisis in the last 100 years.
Its economic, social and health impact continues to grow and is likely to end up as one of the …

In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

Cholera, as an endemic disease around the world, has generated great threat to human
society and caused enormous morbidity and mortality with weak surveillance system. In this …

We describe visual analytics solutions aiming to support public health professionals, and
thus, preventive measures. Prevention aims at advocating behaviour and policy changes …

The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of epidemic forecasting for decision
makers in multiple domains, ranging from public health to the economy. Forecasting …

Powered by advanced information technology, more and more complex systems are
exhibiting characteristics of the cyber–physical–social systems (CPSS). In consideration of …

Background Recently, significant research effort has focused on using Twitter (and other
social media) to investigate mental health at the population-level. While there has been …

Mathematical models of social contagion that incorporate networks of human interactions
have become increasingly popular, however, very few approaches have tackled the …

Assessing and managing the impact of large-scale epidemics considering only the
individual risk and severity of the disease is exceedingly difficult and could be extremely …

Present hopes to conquer the Covid-19 epidemic are largely based on the expectation of a
rapid availability of vaccines. However, once vaccine production starts, it will probably take …