Register now for MfPH-OMNI Shared Graduate Course – One Health Modelling for Emerging Infectious Diseases Part II.

Registrations are now open for MfPH-OMNI Shared Graduate Course – One Health Modelling for Emerging Infectious Diseases Part II. The deadline to register is February 13, 2023.

This course is an extension of One health Modelling for Emerging Infectious Diseases Part I. This course introduces students to mathematical modelling of infectious diseases in One Health, including vector borne diseases, livestock diseases, and waterborne diseases.

Featuring:  WOLDEGEBRIEL ASSEFAWOLDEGERIMA, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at York University; JANE HEFFERNAN, York Professor and OMNI-RÉUNIS HQP Training Lead, Department of Mathematics & Statistics; and many more…

Students will learn to formulate, analyze, parameterize, and validate quantitative models for infectious disease processes and data. Applications include malaria, zika virus, west nile virus, lyme disease, foot and mouth disease, avian influenza, cholera, Hepatitis A virus, and typhoid fever. Approaches involve computer simulation, differential equations, individual-based models, least squares, likelihood, matrix equations, Markov processes, and stochastic processes. Computing labs cover simulation and programming methods in specific software programs that are popular in the field of Infectious Disease Modelling. Course discussions in model evaluation and appraisal of current literature include opportunities for reflection and communication. Students will have the opportunity to collaborate with their course colleagues on group projects.

Register for free at: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/22-23/one-health-II