PrefacePeter Hotez: 1: Benjamin Roche, Thierry Baldet and Frederic Simard: Infectious diseases in low-income countries: Where are we now? 2: Frederic Pages, Dominique Maison and Michael Faulde: Current control strategies for infectious diseasesin low income countries 3: Rebecca Grais: Research in crises: overcoming obstacles and lessons for the future Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword I: The burden 4: Cecile Viboud, Helene Broutin and Gerardo Chowell: Spatial-temporal transmission dynamics and control of infectious diseases: Ebola virus disease (EVD) as a case study 5: Rodolphe E. Gozlan and Marine Combe: Environmental change and pathogen transmission 6: Anne-Laure Banuls, Van Anh Thi Nguyen, Quang Huy Nguyen, Ngoc Anh Thi Nguyen, Hoang Huy Tran and Sylvain Godreuil: Antimicrobial resistance: the 70-year arms race between Humans and Bacteria 7: Jessica Lynn Webster and Marco Vignuzzi: Viral evolution and impact for public health strategies in low-income countries Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword II: Fundamental knowledge 8: Matthew Ferrari: Using Disease Dynamics and Modeling to Inform Control Strategies in Low-Income Countries 9: Paul W. Ewald: Evolutionary control of infectious disease in low-income countries 10: Mathieu Nacher: Using pathogen interactions: challenges and opportunities 11: Patrick Mavingui, Claire Valiente Moro and Pablo Tortosa: Exploiting symbiotic interactions for vector/disease control 12: Heather Ferguson, Patrick Brock and Steve Torr: Host species diversity and the transmission of vector-borne disease in low income countries Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword III: Tunable methods 13: Marco Pombi, David Modiano and Gilberto Corbellini: Malaria eradication in Italy: the story of a first success 14: Andres Garchitorena, Matthew H. Bonds, Jean-Francois Guegan and Benjamin Roche: Interactions between ecological and socio-economic drivers of Buruli ulcer burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Opportunities for an improved control. 15: Isabel Jones, Andrea Lund, Gilles Riveau, Nicolas Jouanard, Raphael A. Ndione, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo: Ecological control of schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa: restoration of predator-prey dynamics to reduce transmission Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard: Afterword IV: Case studies 16: Eve Miguel, Florence Fournet, Serge Yerbanga, Nicolas Moiroux, Franck Yao, Timothee Vergne, Bernard Cazelles, Roch K. Dabire, Frederic Simard and Benjamin Roche: Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: Epidemiology, ecology and evolution for the control of malaria. 17: Jan Slingenbergh, Giuliano Cecchi and Marjan Leneman: Human activities and disease transmission: the agriculture case 18: Matthew H. Bonds, Andres Garchitorena, Paul E. Farmer and Megan B. Murray: Ecology of Poverty, Disease and Health Care Delivery: Lessons for Planetary Health 19: Dominique Kerouedan: African and global health care prospects: The importance of the use of knowledge 20: Benjamin Roche, Helene Broutin and Frederic Simard, on behalf of all authors: Optimizing public health strategies in low-income countries: The challenge to apply the scientific knowledge and for which disease? AfterwordAwa Marie Coll Seck and Ibrahima Seck: