MINI REVIEW article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Infectious Diseases
This article is part of the Research TopicNew Discoveries and Challenges in Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Epidemiological, Clinical, and Pathogenic AdvancesView all 21 articles
The Era of "Infectious Diseases+" Has Arrived: Multi-Disciplinary Integration in Pediatric Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
Provisionally accepted
- Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (SCDC), Shanghai, China
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The frequency of emerging infectious diseases have exposed the limitations of traditional response models, which are increasingly inadequate for contemporary prevention and control needs. History has repeatedly demonstrated the necessity of multi-disciplinary collaboration. Advances in multiple fields and technological revolutions now provide new tools to address these challenges. "Infectious Diseases+"(ID+) is an interdisciplinary integration concept that centers on infectious disease prevention and control. We introduce ID+ as an innovative paradigm for next-generation epidemic control, featuring: (a) three theoretical breakthroughs versus conventional methods, (b) cross-disciplinary applications from AI-driven prediction to vaccine equity governance, and (c) validated pediatric use cases. Future scaling pathways are also discussed.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, global public health, infectious diseases, social science, Vaccine
Received: 03 Jul 2025; Accepted: 02 Feb 2026.
Copyright: © 2026 Kong, Pan, Wu and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Dechuan Kong
Huanyu Wu
Jian Chen
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