The document introduces DISMOD and DISMOD II, software used to model disease burden. DISMOD uses differential equations to estimate disease measures like incidence, remission, and case fatality from available data. DISMOD II improves on DISMOD by allowing estimation of measures from other available data using statistical methods. It also introduces a graphical user interface. Both tools are used to model disease measures over age, sex, and location where data may be limited or uncertain. Newer approaches aim to have more flexible models that account for covariates and better represent uncertainty.