Informatics Infrastructure and Policy Considerations -- Public Health Information Fusion for Situation Awareness -- Biosurveillance, Case Reporting, and Decision Support: Public Health Interactions with a Health Information Exchange -- Bio-surveillance Event Models, Open Source Intelligence, and the Semantic Web -- Foresight China II: Identification and Detection of Infectious Diseases -- Public Health Preparedness Informatics Infrastructure. A Case Study in Integrated Surveillance and Response: 2004–2005 National Influenza Vaccine Shortage -- Network-Based Data Analytics -- Dynamic Network Model for Predicting Occurrences of Salmonella at Food Facilities -- Network-Based Analysis of Beijing SARS Data -- Tutte Polynomials and Topological Quantum Algorithms in Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology, Bio-surveillance and Bio-security -- Biosurveillance Models and Outbreak Detection -- Integrating a Commuting Model with the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector -- A Temporal Extension of the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector -- A Z-Score Based Multi-level Spatial Clustering Algorithm for the Detection of Disease Outbreaks -- Epidemic Thresholds in SIR and SIIR Models Applying an Algorithmic Method -- Test Power for Drug Abuse Surveillance -- Model Assessment and Case Studies -- Assessing the Accuracy of Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Models -- Simulation of Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Outbreak Data for Detection Algorithm Evaluation -- Analysis and Prediction of Epidemiological Trend of Scarlet Fever from 1957 to 2004 in the Downtown Area of Beijing -- Environmental Biosurveillance and Case Studies -- Environmental Biosurveillance for Epidemic Prediction: Experience with Rift Valley Fever -- Spatial Regression-Based Environmental Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics.