Emerging Information Technologies to Provide Improved Decision Support for Surveillance, Prevention, and Control of Vector-Borne Diseases

Saul Lozano-Fuentes1, Christopher M. Barker2,3, Marlize Coleman1,4, Michael Coleman4, Bborie Park2, William K. Reisen2,3 and Lars Eisen1 1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 2University of California, Davis, California 3Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 4Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool 1,2,3United States of America 4United Kingdom

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