Back of the Envelope Modelling of Infectious Disease Transmission Dynamics for Veterinary Students

Gary Smith, DPhil, is Emeritus Professor of Population Biology and Epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, and was formerly the Chief of the Section of Epidemiology and Public Health at Penn. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, and is a Fellow of the Center for Public Health Initiatives. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and has edited two text books. He has served on expert committees in the US and Europe, and is a participant in Pennsylvania Task Force and Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council conferences in which he advises on the role of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in the face of large scale animal epidemics.