IDD
19 August 2013 to 13 September 2013
On 1 January 2013, it will be twenty years since Epidemic Models started as a 6-month programme in the first year of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Since then, the field has grown enormously, in topics addressed, methods and data available (e.g. genetics/genomics, immunological data, social, contact, spatial, and movement data were hardly available at the time). As far as mathematical approaches are concerned, many methods currently used were either not available twenty years ago, or stayed firmly within mathematics and statistics because we could not recognise their importance for lack of the right data, or for lack of asking the right questions. One can think of MCMC, Bayesian analysis, bioinformatics, individual-based modelling, structured population modelling (both deterministic and stochastic), and much more. Apart from these advances, there has also been an increase in the need for these approaches because we have seen the emergence and re-emergence of infectious agents worldwide, and the complexity and non-linearity of infection dynamics, as well as effects of prevention and control, are such that mathematical and statistical analysis is essential for insight and prediction, now more than ever before. Where in 1993 there was hardly any link to public health policy and decision making in infectious disease control, nowadays this link is firmly established. Much research is no longer devoted to generic insights into dynamics, as it was prior to 1993, but rather to very precise insights into focussed questions regarding specific infectious diseases.
The four-week programme will:
Image from The New England Journal of Medicine, Gardy, 'Whole-Genome Sequencing and Social-Network Analysis of a Tuberculosis Outbreak', Volume 364, pp 730-9. Copyright ©2011 Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission from Massachusetts Medical Society.
A Review paper: Heesterbeek et al (2015) "Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health" - was published by Science on 13 March 2015; the online link is http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6227/aaa4339.short (Vol. 347 no. 6227 - DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4339)
A Special Issue of Epidemics on "Challenges in Modelling Infectious Disease Dynamics" is now available online under open access at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17554365/10
The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:
The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Infectious disease dynamics, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/F005431/1 and EP/I016392/1.
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19 August 2013 to 23 August 2013
Tuesday 27th August 2013 | |||
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10:30 to 13:00 | Room 1 | ||
17:00 to 18:00 |
Angela McLean University of Oxford |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 28th August 2013 | |||
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10:00 to 13:00 | Room 2 |
Thursday 29th August 2013 | |||
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10:00 to 13:00 | Room 2 |
Friday 30th August 2013 | |||
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10:00 to 13:00 | Room 2 | ||
16:00 to 17:00 |
Justin Lessler Johns Hopkins University |
Room 1 |
Monday 2nd September 2013 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Sebastian Funk Princeton University |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 3rd September 2013 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
John Edmunds London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Deirdre Hollingsworth University of Warwick |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 4th September 2013 | |||
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18:00 to 19:00 |
Christl Donnelly Imperial College London |
Room 1 |
Thursday 5th September 2013 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Viggo Andreasen Roskilde University |
Room 2 |
Monday 9th September 2013 | |||
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10:30 to 11:30 |
Simon Frost University of Cambridge |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Simon Frost University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 10th September 2013 | |||
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12:00 to 13:00 |
Ellen Brooks Pollock University of Cambridge |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 11th September 2013 | |||
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10:30 to 11:30 |
The elimination of measles and rubella in the WHO European Region - Where are we? |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Lorenzo Pellis Imperial College London |
Room 2 |
Thursday 12th September 2013 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Thomas House University of Warwick |
Room 1 |
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