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

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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.

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What is on the menu?

Our programme is finally online! Download the pdf from this link.

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.

Symposium

Thursday 22nd March 2018
9:30 - 17:00

The programme is available here.

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.