Wednesday APRIL 16, 2014
The statistical analysis of serological data | |
Michiel van Boven | Influenza A patterns of immunity and infection revealed by antibody protein microarray |
Benny Borremans & Jonas Reiniers | Using serological data to estimate the time since infection |
Ruth Nysen | Constrained generalised profiling inference for biomathematical models with applications to serological |
Using serological data to inform public health | |
James Wood | Evaluating measles outbreak potential in Australia |
Steven Abrams | A method to assess outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations using spatial seroprevalence data: an application to MMR in Belgium |
Annelie Vink | Serological surveys for monitoring the effects of HPV vaccination: projections of infection-induced seroprevalence in partly vaccinated populations |
Poster Session | |
The statistical analysis of social contact (network) data | |
Timo Smieszek | How to measure social mixing: pathogen biology and host behaviour, measurement methodology and practice, unknowns and research needs |
Carlos Grijalva | A household-based study of contact networks in the highlands of Peru relevant for the spread of infectious diseases |
Nele Goeyvaerts | Within-household contact networks: implications for epidemic modeling |
Eva Santermans | Using the social contact hypothesis to elucidate the transmission potential of VZV in European countries |
Topics in infectious disease epidemiology – part I | |
Chris Kenyon | The serosociology of STIs in sub-Saharan Africa – an ecological perspective |
Wim Delva | Variability and heritability of HIV viral load: when or why should modellers care? |
Fei Meng | Age mixing relationships and HIV prevention |
Thursday APRIL 17, 2014
Topics in infectious disease epidemiology – part II | |
Anne Benoit | Taking into Account Strains Heterogeneity in the Estimation of Vaccine Efficacy Against Seasonal Influenza |
Tadesse Awoke | Long-term outcomes of Antiretroviral treatment among a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia |
Amin Azmon | Generation interval contraction |
Spatial analysis of infectious disease data | |
Rob Deardon | Optimal experimental and study design for infectious disease systems of animals |
Andrew Lawson | An FMD epidemic: some issues in aggregate spatio-temporal modeling |
Yannick Vandendijck | Kriging splines: a new method towards geostatistical analyses |
Poster Session | |
Dynamic models of infectious diseases | |
Virginia Pitzer | Modeling the spatiotemporal pattern and strain dynamics of rotavirus in developed countries |
Michael Höhle | Bayesian inference for dynamic modelling of infectious diseases: Rotavirus in Germany |
Joke Bilcke | Comparing the impact of Rotarix(r) and RotaTeq(r) on rotavirus disease in England & Wales using transmission dynamic modelling and MCMC |
Niel Hens | The role of (a)symptomatic infections to the spread and control of influenza |
Prioritizing health care: discrete choice and cost-effectiveness analysis | |
Roselinde Kessels | Designing discrete choice experiments in health: an overview |
Jeroen Luyten | Public preferences for prioritizing preventive and curative health care interventions: a discrete choice experiment |
Philippe Beutels | The comparative cost-effectiveness of thousands of options for seasonal influenza vaccination in Belgium |