Infectious disease transmission is associated with significant health, economic, and social consequences. Understanding of the ecosystem change that drives infectious disease transmission is useful to develop climate- and weather-driven early warning systems. Development of spatial and temporal models to link socioenvironmental factors constitutes a novel approach to improving infectious disease surveillance and control efforts. We invite investigators to contribute review articles as well as original research articles that focus on environmental change and infectious disease transmission.

The topics should help to further understand the impact of social and environmental factors on infectious disease transmission. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

1. Application articles in environmental changes and infectious disease transmission, such as identifying and modeling the impacts of weather and climate variability on infectious disease transmission;
2. Methodological articles that outline new developments in the areas of geographic information system, time series, and spatial modeling in environmental health and infectious diseases;
3. Review articles shedding insights into environmental change and infectious disease transmission.