The current volume, focussing on stochastic models for the spread of an infectious disease in a human population, is the outcome of a two-week ICPAM/CIMPA school which took place from December 5 to December 16, 2015 in Ziguinchor, Senegal. The topic of the school was “Stochastic models of epidemics”. The school consisted of 4 courses given by Tom Britton and Etienne Pardoux on homogeneous models, Dave Sirl on two–level mixing models, Viet-Chi Tran on epidemics on graphs, and finally Catherine Laredo on statistics for epidemics models.Frank Ball is a co-author with Dave Sirl in the current volume.The CIMPA school was aimed at PhD students (and Post Docs) in mathematical sciences, and all (or parts of) this volume can be used for PhD courses on the topic, either as a traditional PhD course or as an individual reading course. For this reason Examples and Exercises (some with solutions) are included in most chapters of the book.weiterlesen