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Herbert W. Hethcote developed mathematical models of infectious-disease transmission. His University of Iowa research history emphasizes the interaction between infectious and susceptible populations.^[ref]

His The Mathematics of Infectious Diseases by Herbert W. Hethcote brings together models, thresholds and their assumptions. In a constant-population SIS model, recovery returns individuals to susceptibility; the infectious fraction satisfies a scalar nonlinear equation whose equilibria reveal an invasion threshold. The example shows how a biological transition diagram becomes a differential equation and then a stability question.^[ref]

SIAM Review 42, 599–653. By Herbert W. Hethcote.

Verified section 3, printed p. 621: SIS reductions and explicit Bernoulli solvability at constant population. The no-demography normalization and scalar stability calculation are derived in the wiki.