DIMACS Working Group on Modeling Social Responses to Bio-terrorism Involving Infectious Agents

May 29 - 30, 2003
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

John Glasser, CDC, jwg3@cdc.gov

Ellis McKenzie, NIH, McKenzel@mail.nih.gov

Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

• Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell/Los Alamos/Arizona
  A Simple Model for Toronto's SARS Outbreak

• Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, George Mason University
  Dominance Principles in Social Network Dynamics and Terrorism

  Lee Clarke, Rutgers Sociology
  GIGO about Social Behavior

• Paul A. Dreyer, RAND
  Modeling Lessons Learned from the SARS Outbreak

• John Glasser, M. Reynolds, B. Schwartz, and M.S. Cetron, CDC
  Control of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome via Isolation
  of Infectious People or Quarantine of Those Whom They May
  Have Exposed: Evaluation via Mathematical Modeling

• Jim Kvach, AFMIC
  Infectious Disease Modeling: Why is Defense
  Intelligence Interested?

• Sarah Roberts, NYC Dept. of Health
  Communicating with Communities about Emergency Preparedness:
  Resources, Strategies, and Experiences

• John Sorensen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Modeling Human Response to a Chemical Weapons Accident

• Ping Yan, Health Canada
  Roles of Statistical Science and Mathematical
  Modeling in the Effort to Control SARS

• Discussion Group One
  The Decision-Maker

• Discussion Group Two
  New modeling initiatives

• Discussion Group Three
  How to model social responses to bio-terrorism involving infectious agents?

• Discussion Group Four
  2 Simple Questions to Address

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