Program

Friday

9:15 – 12:00 Serology/Immunology

9:15 – 9:30 Welcome: Matt Ferrari & Murali Haran

9:30 – 10:00 Introduction: Ottar Bjornstad

10:00 – 10:30 Saki Takahashi, Epidemiological Inference from Correlated Serological Data

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:15 Phyllis Ju, SNP-Slice Resolves Mixed Infections:
Simultaneously Unveiling Strain Haplotypes and Linking Them to Hosts

11:15 – 11:45 Le Bao, Dynamic Models Augmented by
Hierarchical Data: An Application Of Estimating HIV
Epidemics At Sub-National Level

11:45 – 12:15 Floor Discussion Moderator: Ottar Bjornstad

12:15 – 1:45 Lunch on your own

1:45 – 4:30 Spatial spread

1:45 – 2:15 Jon Zelner, Spatial Mechanisms or Social Residues? How Should We Make Sense of Intersecting Social and Environmental Drivers of Infection

2:15 – 2:45 Nita Bharti, Navigating Gaps and Biases in Surveillance Data

2:45 – 3:00 Walk to Thomas Building

3:00 – 4:00 Lance Waller (Khatri Lectureship) Thomas 102, Maps: A Statistical View

4:00 – 4:30 Floor Discussion Moderator: Murali Haran

4:30 – 5:00 Reception, 3rd Floor Thomas

6:00 Dinner for Invited Speakers

Allen Street Grill
222 E. College Ave

Saturday

9:15 – 12:00 Epidynamics

9:15 – 9:30 Introduction: Matt Ferrari

9:30 – 10:00 Dave Kennedy, Exploiting Selection Bias: Host Jumps and Host Heterogeneity

10:00 – 10:30 Forrest Crawford, Causal Inference for Infectious Disease Interventions

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:15 Olga Morozova, Integrating Novel Surveillance Data in Infectious Disease Analytics

11:15 – 11:45 Jason Xu, Exact Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Epidemic Models via Data Augmented MCMC

11:45 – 12:15 Floor Discussion Moderator: Matt Ferrari

12:15 – 1:45 Lunch on your own

1:45 – 4:30 Integrating Multiple Data Sources

1:45 – 2:15 Katriona Shea, Uncertainty and the Management of Outbreaks: Harnessing the Power of Multiple Models

2:15 – 2:45 Richard Li, Domain Adaptive Mortality Surveillance Using Verbal Autopsies

2:45 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 3:30 Ayesha Mahmud, Modeling Transmission Dynamics of Directly-Transmitted Diseases Using Data from Contact Studies

3:30 – 4:00 Volodymyr Minin, Inference, Nowcasting, and Forecasting Using Multiple Surveillance Data Streams

4:00 – 4:15 Break

4:15 – 4:45 Pamela Martinez, Immune History and Coronaviruses: From Serostatus to Booster Impacts

4:45 – 5:15 Floor Discussion Moderator: Ephraim Hanks