pbPresents an overview of the complex biological systems used within a global public health setting and features a focus on malaria analysisbppBridging the gap between agent-based modeling and simulation ABMS and geographic information systems GIS, iSpatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health Design, Implementation, and Applications for Malaria Epidemiology iprovides a useful introduction to the development of agent-based models ABMs by following a conceptual and biological core model of iAnopheles gambiae ifor malaria epidemiology. Using spatial ABMs, the book includes mosquito vector control interventions and GIS as two example applications of ABMs, as well as a brief description of epidemiology modeling. In addition, the authors discuss how to most effectively integrate spatial ABMs with a GIS. The book concludes with a combination of knowledge from entomological, epidemiological, simulation-based, and geo-spatial domains in order to identify and analyze relationships b