Dr. Ottar Bjornstad researches population dynamics of epidemiological and ecological outbreaks. Focal systems includes human infections like measles, whooping cough, rubella and influenza; animal infections like rabies, hantavirus and distemper; and outbreaks of various insects of biomedical and agricultural concern. He has expertise in statistical and computational approaches to the study of spatiotemporal dynamics, including the development of a suite of statistical methods for the analysis of spatial and temporal data as implemented in various R-packages. His expertise has been used in an advisory capacity for outbreak control and mitigation by the USDA forest Service, the NIH Fogarty International Centre and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Bjornstad is a Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology and holds the J. Lloyd & Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair of Epidemiology at the Pennsylvania State University.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. SIR.- Chapter 3. R0.- Chapter 4. FoI and age-dependent incidence.- Chapter 5. Seasonality.- Chapter 6. Time Series Analysis.- Chapter 7. TSIR.- Chapter 8.- Trajectory Matching.- Chapter 9. Stability and Resonant Periodicity.- Chapter 10. Exotica.- Chapter 11. Spatial Dynamics.- Chapter 12. Transmission on Networks.- Chapter 13. Spatial and Spatiotemporal Patterns.- Chapter 14. Parasitoids.- Chapter 15. Non-Independent Data.- Chapter 16. Quantifying In-Host Patterns.- Bibliography.- Index.-