Routledge Handbook of Infectious Diseases A Geographical Guide

Section I

1. Historical Overview of Global Infectious Diseases and Geopolitics

Jessica J. Tuan, Francis E. G. Cox, Frank J. Bia

2. Non-traditional Infectious Diseases Surveillance Systems

Davidson H. Hamer, Lawrence C. Madoff, Patricia Schlagenhauf, Kara Sewalk, John Brownstein, Michael Libman, Marjorie P. Pollack

3. Air Travel − Which Infectious Disease Control Measures are Worthwhile

Francisco Alvarado Ramy, Shannon Gearhart, Alida Gertz, Dipti Patel

4. Infectious Illnesses on Cruise and Cargo Ships

Kara Tardivel, Stefanie White, Joanna J. Regan, Clive M. Brown

5. Travel-related Infections: Prevention, Outbreak, Curtailment

Patricia Schlagenhauf, Xanthi Andrianou, Gianfranco Spiteri

6. Migration and the Geography of Disease

Francesca F. Norman, Rogelio López-Vélez, Marta González Sanz, José-Antonio Pérez-Molina

Section II

7. Central Africa

Martin P. Grobusch, Bayode R. Adegbite, Francine Ntoumi

8. Eastern Africa, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands

Andreas Neumayr, Christian Kositz, Esther Künzli

9. North Africa

Rehab M. Elsaid Tash, Najet Mouffok, Amine Merzoug, Ayman Allam, Laila Elkadi, Maysaa Abdallah Saeed, Monkez Yousef, Fatma Amer

10. Southern Africa

Olga Perovic, Nectarios Papavarnavas, Lucille Blumberg

11. West Africa

Boubacar Maiga, Patrick Ayeh-Kumi

12. East Asia

Chi-Tai Fang, Mugen Ujiie, Joon Sup Yeom

13. South Central Asia

Anupa Thampy, Priscilla Rupali, Gulzhan Abuova, Prativa Pandey

14. South-East Asia

Daniel H. Paris, Nicholas J. White

15. Western Asia and the Middle East

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Seif Alabri, Ziad A. Memish

16. Eastern Europe

Natalia Pshenichnaya, Malgorzata Paul, Corneliu Petru Popescu

17. Nordic and Baltic Countries

Anu Kantele, Audrone Marcinkute, Carsten Schade Larsen, Heli Siikamäki, Danguole Vaznaisiene, Steen Villumsen

18. Southern Europe

Francesco Castelli, Androula Pavli, Sofia R. Valdoleiros, Mario Poljak

19. Western Europe

Abraham Goorhuis, Giorgia Caruana, Ashley D. Otter

20. The Caribbean

Larry I. Lutwick, Alana Pinheiro Alves

21. Central America

Larry I. Lutwick, Alexandre M. S. Carvalho, Nelson Ivan Agudelo Higuita

22. South America

Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

23. Northern America

Barbra M. Blair, Philip R. Fischer, Michael Libman, Lin H. Chen

24. Australia, New Zealand

Sarah McGuinness, Karin Leder

25. Pacific Island Countries and Territories

Sarah McGuinness, Colleen Lau, Karin Leder

26. Arctic and Antarctica

Anders Koch, Michael G. Bruce, Kami Kandola

Section III

27. Emerging Infections

Mary E. Wilson, Eskild Petersen, Marion P. Koopmans

28. Climate Change and the Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases

Aisha N. Khatib, Wasin Matsee, Jan C. Semenza

Biography

Eskild Petersen is an infectious disease specialist who worked in public health at Statens Serum Institut and in clinical infectious diseases at Aarhus University Hospital. He served as chair of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases emerging infectious diseases task force for five years. He moderated ProMED for 22 years and served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases for ten years. He is also part of the PandemiX Center at Roskilde University.

Lin H. Chen directs the Mount Auburn Hospital Travel Medicine Center, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is the Past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She has served on CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Working Groups, is Site Director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance and Research Network and is part of the Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travellers’ health, including vector-borne diseases, immunizations, emerging infections, and cross-border healthcare.

Patricia Schlagenhauf is a Professor at the University of Zürich and serves as the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health and Scientific Group Leader. Her research focuses on travellers’ malaria, emerging vector-borne infections, and infectious disease epidemiology. Active in surveillance of travel-related illness, she is the Director of the European network EuroTravNet since 2022 and the Zürich GeoSentinel Site Director since 1998. Additionally, she holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of New Microbes New Infections.