From the Editors.

Abstract

This issue contains Part 2 of a special series of articles on modeling and managing the risk of measles and rubella, the first part of which was published in Risk Analysis in 2016. This special series is introduced by Past President of SRA Kimberly Thompson, who conceived of the special series, solicited the articles, and worked with Area Editor Chuck Haas to bring it to fruition. In her introduction, Kim calls attention to the key tradeoff between the costs of a large push to permanently fix a problem, e.g., by eradicating a disease, and the smaller annual costs of continuing to manage it. For measles and rubella, she concludes that eradication would be more cost effective (as well as more humane) than continued management, although it requires greater coordination, concerted effort, and, hence, political will to accomplish. Due to a publishing error, one of the articles in this special series appeared in last September’s issue of Risk Analysis, which was primarily devoted to risk analysis of air pollution health effects; the full citation for that published article is: Harris JB, Badiane O, Lam E, Nicholson J, Oumar Ba I, Diallo A, Fall A, Masresha BG, Goodson JL. Application of the World Health Organization Programmatic Assessment Tool for risk of measles virus transmission—Lessons learned from a measles outbreak in Senegal. Risk Analysis, 2016; 36:1708–1717. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12431. The article is also available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10. 1111/risa.12431/full.