Challenges and opportunities in outbreak analytics
/// RECON gathering #1
/// London, Novotel Paddington, 22-23 March 2018
The event will be hosted at the Novotel Paddington, in the middle of little venice, London
Here is a map of the campus:The event will take place over 2 days, 22-23 March 2018
Please use the google form below to apply, for follow this link to open the form in a new page. Attendance will depend on availability and will be confirmed at a later stage. Deadline for registration is 23rd February 2018.
What is on the menu?
Our programme is finally online! Download the pdf from this link.Slides of some of the presentations of the event
Introduction
- Introduction: challenges and opportunities in outbreak response analytics (Thibaut Jombart, ICL)
- Plenary: decision making in public health emergencies (Oliver Morgan, WHO)
Talks
- Data collection and analysis during mass displacements: the MSF experience in the Balkans during the 2015 refugee crisis (Iro Evlampidou, MSF)
- Diphtheria outbreak among Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh 2017-18 (Jonathan Polonsky, WHO)
- Mathematical modelling and outbreak response: lessons learnt from West African Ebola (Anne Cori, ICL)
- Real-time modelling and forecasting during infectious disease outbreaks (Sebastian Funk, LSHTM)
- Nucleotide sequencing in outbreak detection and response (Gregory Armstrong, US CDC)
- Current challenges with data analyses tools and training for field-epidemiologists (Amrish Baidjoe, ICL)
- Transition to R: pros and cons from an EU FETP perspective (Irina Czogiel, RKI)
- Anthropology for epidemiologists: qualitative methods in public health investigations (Lisa Hansen, RIVM / ECDC)
- The GOARN training programme (Renee Anne Christensen, GOARN)
Agenda
This first RECON gathering will be dedicated to discussing challenges and opportunities in outbreak analytics. Our objective is to combine the experience and knowledge of field epidemiologists, public health officers, methodologists and software developers to identify future directions and priorities in the development and dissemination of outbreak analytic tools. We will discuss the potential and limitations of statistics and modelling for informing outbreak response, and the role novel tools can play as a component of the next generation of field epidemiology training programmes.
The event will be running over 2 days, 22-23 March 2018. The full programme is available here. The first day will be a symposium giving an overview of the activities of our community, focussing on the role of modelling and analytics for informing outbreak response. The second day will consist in two parallel sessions, including a working group on field epidemiology training resources, and a community-driven hackathon. Click here to discuss existing projects or propose new ones. The entire event will be hosted in the Novotel Paddington
Registration
Thursday 22nd March 2018
9:00 - 9:30
Welcoming the participants, coffee.
Social event
Thursday 22nd March 2018
17:30 - 23:00
Reception at the bar of the hotel, followed by dinner.
Parallel session 1
Friday 23rd March 2018
9:30 - 16:00
Working group on resources for field epidemiology training.
Parallel session 2
Friday 23rd March 2018
9:30 - 16:00
Community-driven hackathon. Click here to discuss existing projects or propose new ones.
Conclusion
Friday 23rd March 2018
16:00 - 16:30
Debriefing of parallel sessions and concluding remarks.
Organisers
Thibaut Jombart
Lecturer, Imperial College London
Outbreak response analytics and head of RECON.
Amrish Baidjoe
Research Associate, Imperial College London
Field epidemiologist and core RECON member, president of the EPIET alumni network.
Julie Middleton
Senior Administrator, Imperial College London
Administrator of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, and logistics guru for the event.
Susannah Fisher
Senior Administrator, Imperial College London
Administrator of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, and logistics oracle for the event.
James Hayward
Senior Administrator, Imperial College London
Head administrator for the NIHR-HPRU and occasional logistics life-saver.
This event is organised by the R Epidemics Consortium
This event is co-funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, and the National Institute for Health Research - Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR-HPRU) for Modelling Methodology.
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