Monday JANUARY 31, 2011
Epidemic Modeling
- Philip O’Neill: Relating infectious disease transmission models to data
- Jacco Wallinga: Optimizing infectious disease interventions during an emerging epidemic
- Niel Hens: Estimating the reproduction number from final size data for Hepatitis A in Belgium
Estimating Vaccination Coverage
- Heidi Theeten & Nele Goeyvaerts: Traditional and serology-based methods
- James Wood: Estimating MMR vaccine coverage from Australian sero-surveillance data
- Michiel van Boven: Estimation of mumps transmissibility and critical vaccination coverage using data from partially observed outbreaks
Current topics in vaccine preventable infectious diseases
- Marc Van Ranst: Impact of vaccination on rotavirus in Belgium
- John Edmunds: Modeling rotavirus transmission dynamics
- Marc Arbyn: HPV in the post-vaccination era
- Nicolas Vandevelde: Individual-based model for HPV transmission
Spatial Infectious Disease Models
- Thomas House: Space: the final frontier
- Matt Keeling: Controlling Infections in Spatial Environments
- Christel Faes: Modeling the spatio-temporal transmission of Bluetongue in Europe
- Jonas Reijniers: An experimental stochastic model for Hantavirus in bank voles
Tuesday FEBRUARY 01, 2011
Vector borne Diseases: dengue
- Mathieu Andraud: Dynamic Models for dengue transmission: an overview
- Ziv Shkedy: Modeling dengue transmission in Cuba
- Laurent Coudeville: Potential impact of vaccination on the transmission dynamics of dengue: a four serotype model
Topics in Infectious Disease Modeling
- Olivier Lejeune: Plasma cell kinetics predicted by hepatitis A antibody decay after vaccination
- Amparo Castro Sanchez: Using survival models to estimate the association between HIV and HCV in injecting drug users
- Peter Vickerman: Is the HCV co-infection prevalence amongst HIV infected IDUs a proxy marker for the level of sexual and injection related transmission of HIV?
- Natasha Martin: Modeling hepatitis C antiviral treatment for prevention amongst injecting drug users: impact and heterogeneity
Topics in Health Economic Research – Part I
- Jeroen Luyten: Equity, efficiency and autonomy: ethics of vaccination
- Marc Brisson: Examining the potential impact of HPV vaccination on health disparities using mathematical models
- Joke Bilcke: Dealing with uncertainty in economic evaluations, illustrated with models of vaccination programs
Topics in Health Economic Research – Part II
- Mark Jit: Cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination of pregnant women in The UK
- Philippe Beutels: Estimating QALYs from single time point valuations for hepatitis A