ECDC Infectious Disease Modelling MeetingArchived

Event
14 Nov 2011 - 15 Nov 2011
ECDC, Stockholm
ECDC

Looking at finished and ongoing modelling projects sponsored by ECDC and other EU funders such ad DG Research and the Public Health Programme.2) Discussing what European Union mechanisms for communicable disease modelling networking would be useful in the future.

Scope of the meeting:

1) Looking at finished and ongoing modelling projects sponsored by ECDC and other EU funders such ad DG Research and the Public Health Programme.2) Discussing what European Union mechanisms for communicable disease modelling networking would be useful in the future.

 

Meeting Agenda

  • ECDC modelling activities
  • ECDC work on varicella vaccination modelling in EU/EEA/EFTA countries
  • ECDC work on generation times in epidemic modelling
  • ECDC work on estimating HIV prevelance in EU/EEA/EFTA countries
  • JRC activities on emerging public health threats
  • Presentation of EMPERIE
  • Respiratory infection modelling activities
  • Flumodcont and related projects
  • Modelling the epidemic dynamics and the reporting process using data from the influenza surveillance system
  • EpiFor: Human mobility and epidemic invasion
  • The next generation of social contact surveys: POLYMOD and beyond
  • Now-Casting during a huge outbreak of haemolytic-uremic syndrome in Germany, 2011 (see HUS cases data)
  • Epiwork: developing the framework for an epidemic forecast infrastructure 
  • SSOPHIE project
  • ECDC work on burden of Disease
  • Interest of simulation sequential cost-effectiveness models: example of the Fluresp European Project