Within each population, there exists a great amount of
variability in an individual's response to infectious disease.
Factors such as susceptibility to pathogens, probability
of developing symptoms, mortality and ongoing immunity,
to name but a few of the possibilities, heavily influence
disease outcomes. Our research seeks to elucidate how different
subpopulations and socially mediated interactions between
them influence infectious disease dynamics in the population
as a whole.
Disease Prevention and Resistance in Social Insects: Modeling the Survival Consequences of Immunity, Hygienic Behavior and Colony Organization using Cellular Automata.
Fefferman, N.H., J.F.A. Traniello, R.B. Rosengaus and D.V. Calleri.
(In Press, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology)
The role of individual choice in the evolution of social complexity.
Fefferman, N.H. and K.L Ng. (In Press, Annales Zoologici Fennici)
Balancing Public Health Risks Against Educational Goals in the Public Health System. Senese, M., J. Rogers and N.H. Fefferman.(In Preparation)
The Untapped Potential of Virtual Game Worlds to Shed Light on Real World Epidemics. Lofgren, E. and N.H. Fefferman. (Submitted)
