The Top Ten Priority Research Areas Identified by DRG4.

aCore themes are (1) control interventions; (2) epidemiology and surveillance; (3) environmental and social ecology; (4) data and modelling; (5) basic (fundamental) biology (see Figure 1).bNumbering of the ten top priories does not reflect order of importance; instead, they are organised according to core theme; all the (inter-connected) priorities are to be addressed in parallel as each priority will benefit from accomplishing the others.