Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS/MBI US-African Initiative.
This Clinic is jointly organized with The Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University (MBI), the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), and South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) .
This Clinic is jointly sponsored by:
Monday, 11 May 2009
8:30 - 8:50 Registration and welcome
Fritz Hahne, AIMS
John Hargrove, Director, SACEMA
Edward Lungu, University of Botswana
Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University
8:50 - 9:20 Introductions and description of plan
John Hargrove, Director, SACEMA
9:20 - 9:30 Initial discussion of feedback/evaluation process for future development of program
Juliet Pulliam, NIH
9:30 - 10:30 Interactive lecture/practical demonstration Uganda data
John Hargrove, Director, SACEMA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (and poster set-up)
11:00 - 13:00 Continuation of session on Uganda data
Sort into groups for initial computer work (based on complementary skill sets)
Introduction to computing at AIMS
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (and poster set-up)
14:00 - 15:30 Computer session/practical ? Uganda data
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Continuation of computer session/practical on Uganda data plus discussion
Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University
Steve Bellan, UC Berkeley
17:00 - 18:00 Poster session (half of posters presented)
18:15 Leave for Dinner at the "Brass Bell" (Get a train ticket from Julie;
We will go on the train, leaving AIMS at 18:45.)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
9:00 - 9:30 Review progress on Uganda data
Jim Scott
9:30 - 10:30 Practical session - work on Southern African data and/or mortality data
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (and poster set-up)
11:00 - 12:30 Practical session - work on Southern African data and/or mortality data
12:30 - 13:00 Students group by country and decide what results to present to the group and how
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Students group by country and decide what results to present to the group and how
14:30 - 15:00 Group presentations by country
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Group presentations by country
17:00 - 18:00 Poster session (second half of posters)
18:00 - 18:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:00 Evening work session (R tutorials or group work)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
9:00 - 10:30 Introduction to age stratification of Harare data + Discussion of
modeling/data issues that have arisen thus far
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Discrete time models for consideration of age
Travis Porco, University of California-San Francisco
12:00 - 12:30 Groups form to start thinking about age-stratified models
12:30 - 13:00 Presentations of group progress on age-stratified models
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Lecture: Thinking about data
Brian Williams, CDC
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Further complications regarding age stratification - modeling ANC data
John Hargrove, Director, SACEMA
17:00 - 18:00 Free time
18:00 - 18:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:00 Evening work/reading session (Granich et al. 2008)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
9:00 - 10:30 Guest Lecture I: Sexual behavior patterns in South
Africa and their effect on the spread of HIV: insights
from a mathematical model
Leigh Johnson, Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape Town
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00 Guest Lecture II
Leigh Johnson, Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape Town
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Discussion of Granich paper (Focus: How can data-driven infectious
disease modelling be an aide to decision-making and policy?
Facilitator: Brian Williams, CDC
15:00 - 15:30 Technical lecture: Understanding data I
Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 16:30 Technical lecture: Understanding data I - continued
Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University
16:30 - 17:30 Technical Lecture: Understanding data II
Steve Bellan, UC Berkeley
17:30 - 18:00 Work session
18:00 - 18:30 Dinner
19:15 Drumming
Friday, May 15, 2009
9:00 - 10:30 Technical lecture: Understanding data: statistics and philosophy
Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00 Computer work
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Lecture: Insights from a stochastic model of trachoma
Travis Porco, University of California-San Francisco
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 18:00 Computer work
18:00 - 18:30 Dinner
19:00 - 21:00 Free evening/card games
Saturday, May 16, 2009
9:00 - 10:30 Introduction to HIV/TB interactions
Carel Pretorius, SACEMA
Brian Williams, CDC
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Discussion of feedback/evaluation process for future development of program
John Hargrove, Director, SACEMA
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Free/working afternoon
Sunday, May 17, 2009
(Free day - optional group activity will be organized)
Monday, May 18, 2009
9:00 - 9:15 Regroup to make sure everyone knows what they're working on over next two days
9:15 - 9:45 Lecture on malaria
Sarah Radke, University of North Carolina
9:45 - 10:30 Work
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (and poster set-up)
11:00 - 13:00 Work
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Work
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:00 Work
17:00 - 18:00 Regroup and report on progress
18:00 - 18:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:00 Evening work session
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
9:00 - 10:30 Work
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00 Work
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Work
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
15:20 - 18:00 Regroup, report on progress, and finalize plans for moving forward
18:00 - 18:30 Dinner
19:30 - 21:00 Social activity for those still around
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