Calistus Ngonghala,
Assistant Professor Of Mathematical Biology
Teaching Profile
Courses Taught
2022
MAP4305 Differential Equations for Engineers and Physical Scientists
2022
MAP5304 Intermediate Differential Equations for Engineers and Physical Scientists
2016-2023
MAP2302 Elementary Differential Equations
2017,2021-2023,2023
MAP6487 Biomathematics Seminar I
2019
MHF3202 Sets and Logic
2018
MAT6932 Special Topics in Mathematics
2018,2025
MAT7979 Advanced Research
2023
MAT6905 Individual Work
Publications
Academic Articles
2024
Modeling the synergistic interplay between malaria dynamics and economic growth.
Mathematical biosciences.
372
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2024.109189.
[PMID] 38580079.
2023
Critical assessment of the impact of vaccine-type and immunity on the burden of COVID-19.
Mathematical biosciences.
360
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2023.108981.
[PMID] 36803672.
2023
Mathematical model on HIV and nutrition.
Journal of biological dynamics.
17(1)
[DOI] 10.1080/17513758.2023.2287087.
[PMID] 38015715.
2023
Reframing Optimal Control Problems for Infectious Disease Management in Low-Income Countries.
Bulletin of mathematical biology.
85(4)
[DOI] 10.1007/s11538-023-01137-4.
[PMID] 36907932.
2023
Unraveling the dynamics of the Omicron and Delta variants of the 2019 coronavirus in the presence of vaccination, mask usage, and antiviral treatment
Applied Mathematical Modelling.
114:447-465
[DOI] 10.1016/j.apm.2022.09.017.
[PMID] 36281307.
2022
An evolutionary game model of individual choices and bed net use: elucidating key aspect in malaria elimination strategies
Royal Society Open Science.
9(11)
[DOI] 10.1098/rsos.220685.
[PMID] 36405633.
2022
Assessing the impact of insecticide-treated nets in the face of insecticide resistance on malaria control
Journal of Theoretical Biology.
555
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111281.
[PMID] 36154815.
2022
Mathematical assessment of the role of vaccination against COVID-19 in the United States
Mathematical Modeling, Simulations, and AI for Emergent Pandemic Diseases: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 (eds. Jorge X. Velasco Hernandez and Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas), Elsevier.
2022
Mathematical assessment of the role of waning and boosting immunity against the BA.1 Omicron variant in the United States
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.
20(1):179-212
[DOI] 10.3934/mbe.2023009.
[PMID] 36650762.
2022
The impact of age structure and vaccine prioritization on COVID-19 in West Africa
Infectious Disease Modelling.
7(4):709-727
[DOI] 10.1016/j.idm.2022.08.006.
[PMID] 36097593.
2022
The impact of temperature and decay in insecticide-treated net efficacy on malaria prevalence and control
Mathematical Biosciences.
355
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2022.108936.
[PMID] 36356891.
2021
A primer on using mathematics to understand COVID-19 dynamics: Modeling, analysis and simulations.
Infectious Disease Modelling.
6:148-168
[DOI] 10.1016/j.idm.2020.11.005.
[PMID] 33474518.
2021
Assessing the impact of widespread respirator use in curtailing COVID-19 transmission in the USA.
Royal Society open science.
8(9)
[DOI] 10.1098/rsos.210699.
[PMID] 34527275.
2021
Effects of changes in temperature on Zika dynamics and control.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface.
18(178)
[DOI] 10.1098/rsif.2021.0165.
[PMID] 33947225.
2021
Effects of social-distancing on infectious disease dynamics: an evolutionary game theory and economic perspective.
Journal of biological dynamics.
15(1):342-366
[DOI] 10.1080/17513758.2021.1946177.
[PMID] 34182892.
2021
Human choice to self-isolate in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: A game dynamic modelling approach.
Journal of theoretical biology.
521
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110692.
[PMID] 33771612.
2021
Integrating Health Systems and Science to Respond to COVID-19 in a Model District of Rural Madagascar.
Frontiers in public health.
9
[DOI] 10.3389/fpubh.2021.654299.
[PMID] 34368043.
2021
Toward Achieving a Vaccine-Derived Herd Immunity Threshold for COVID-19 in the U.S.
Frontiers in public health.
9
[DOI] 10.3389/fpubh.2021.709369.
[PMID] 34368071.
2021
Warming temperatures could expose more than 1.3Â billion new people to Zika virus risk by 2050.
Global change biology.
27(1):84-93
[DOI] 10.1111/gcb.15384.
[PMID] 33037740.
2020
Could masks curtail the post-lockdown resurgence of COVID-19 in the US?
Mathematical biosciences.
329
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108452.
[PMID] 32818515.
2020
Mathematical assessment of the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on curtailing the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
Mathematical biosciences.
325
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108364.
[PMID] 32360770.
2020
Mathematical modeling and analysis of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE.
17(6):7192-7220
[DOI] 10.3934/mbe.2020369.
[PMID] 33378893.
2020
Predicting COVID-19 spread in the face of control measures in West Africa.
Mathematical biosciences.
328
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2020.108431.
[PMID] 32738248.
2020
Reconciling model predictions with low reported cases of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa: insights from Madagascar.
Global health action.
13(1)
[DOI] 10.1080/16549716.2020.1816044.
[PMID] 33012269.
2020
Will an imperfect vaccine curtail the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.?
Infectious Disease Modelling.
5:510-524
[DOI] 10.1016/j.idm.2020.07.006.
[PMID] 32835142.
2018
Temperature drives Zika virus transmission: evidence from empirical and mathematical models.
Proceedings. Biological sciences.
285(1884)
[DOI] 10.1098/rspb.2018.0795.
[PMID] 30111605.
2017
Disease ecology, health and the environment: a framework to account for ecological and socio-economic drivers in the control of neglected tropical diseases.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences.
372(1722)
[DOI] 10.1098/rstb.2016.0128.
[PMID] 28438917.
2017
General ecological models for human subsistence, health and poverty.
Nature ecology & evolution.
1(8):1153-1159
[DOI] 10.1038/s41559-017-0221-8.
[PMID] 29046570.
2016
Interplay between insecticide-treated bed-nets and mosquito demography: implications for malaria control.
Journal of theoretical biology.
397:179-92
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.03.003.
[PMID] 26976050.
2015
Economic inequality caused by feedbacks between poverty and the dynamics of a rare tropical disease: the case of Buruli ulcer in sub-Saharan Africa.
Proceedings. Biological sciences.
282(1818)
[DOI] 10.1098/rspb.2015.1426.
[PMID] 26538592.
2015
Environmental transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans drives dynamics of Buruli ulcer in endemic regions of Cameroon.
Scientific reports.
5
[DOI] 10.1038/srep18055.
[PMID] 26658922.
2015
Modeling the burden of poultry disease on the rural poor in Madagascar.
One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
1:60-65
[DOI] 10.1016/j.onehlt.2015.10.002.
[PMID] 28616466.
2015
Persistent oscillations and backward bifurcation in a malaria model with varying human and mosquito populations: implications for control.
Journal of mathematical biology.
70(7):1581-622
[DOI] 10.1007/s00285-014-0804-9.
[PMID] 24992885.
2015
The Burden of Livestock Parasites on the Poor.
Trends in parasitology.
31(11):527-530
[DOI] 10.1016/j.pt.2015.09.005.
[PMID] 26604161.
2014
Experimental observation of extreme multistability in an electronic system of two coupled Rössler oscillators.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.
89(2)
[PMID] 25353556.
2014
Poverty, disease, and the ecology of complex systems.
PLoS biology.
12(4)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001827.
[PMID] 24690902.
2014
Quantifying the impact of decay in bed-net efficacy on malaria transmission.
Journal of theoretical biology.
363:247-61
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.08.018.
[PMID] 25158163.
2013
Clusters of poverty and disease emerge from feedbacks on an epidemiological network.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface.
10(80)
[DOI] 10.1098/rsif.2012.0656.
[PMID] 23256187.
2013
Evaluation [corrected] of the “Iceberg Phenomenon” in Johne’s disease through mathematical modelling.
PloS one.
8(10)
[DOI] 10.1371/journal.pone.0076636.
[PMID] 24167547.
2013
The impact of bed-net use on malaria prevalence.
Journal of theoretical biology.
320:58-65
[DOI] 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.12.007.
[PMID] 23246718.
2012
Periodic oscillations and backward bifurcation in a model for the dynamics of malaria transmission.
Mathematical biosciences.
240(1):45-62
[DOI] 10.1016/j.mbs.2012.06.003.
[PMID] 22732318.
2011
Extreme multistability in a chemical model system.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.
83(5 Pt 2)
[PMID] 21728629.
2011
Health safety nets can break cycles of poverty and disease: a stochastic ecological model.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface.
8(65):1796-803
[DOI] 10.1098/rsif.2011.0153.
[PMID] 21593026.
Grants
Sep 2024
ACTIVE
eMB: Collaborative Research: Integrated Hybrid Mathematical Modeling for Schistosomiasis Elimination
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL SCIENCE FOU
Sep 2024
ACTIVE
Integrating human behavior, socio-economic heterogeneity, climatic change, and epidemiological models to forecast disease effects and guide health policies.
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Jul 2022
ACTIVE
Collaborative Research: A new multi-scale framework for integrating socio-economic processes, vector-borne disease control, and the impact of transient events
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: NATL SCIENCE FOU
Sep 2019
– Aug 2022
New mathematical methods for estimating coupled nonlinear dynamical systems of poverty and disease
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: SIMONS FOUNDATION
Contact Details
Phones:
- Business:
- (352) 294-2335
Emails:
- Business:
- calistusnn@ufl.edu
Addresses:
- Business Mailing:
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PO BOX 118105
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
GAINESVILLE FL 326118105 - Business Street:
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1400 STADIUM RD # 358
LITTLE HALL
GAINESVILLE FL 32611