Schedule for: 23w5151 - The Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Diseases: Progress and Next Steps
Beginning on Sunday, November 12 and ending Friday November 17, 2023
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Sunday, November 12 | |
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| 16:00 - 17:30 | Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Informal gathering ↓ (Other (See Description)) |
| Monday, November 13 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | David Price: The CANMOD/EIDM Knowledge Graph (Online) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Kevin Brown: Association between Late Outbreak Identification and SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Mortality Among Nursing Home Residents in Ontario, Canada (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Michael Li: The need to evaluate existing data resources and knowledge gaps to support future needs for respiratory disease surveillance and modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Amy Hurford: How to do modelling to support regions implementing an elimination strategy during a pandemic (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Marie (Betsy) Varughese: The Decision Uncertainty Toolkit (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | David Champredon: Academic collaborations to improve wastewater-based modelling at PHAC (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Group Photo ↓ (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | Steve Walker: Demo of historical infectious disease data portal (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Evan Mitchell: Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths prevented by COVID-19 vaccines in Canada (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Étienne Racine: Dynamic transmission model for COVID-19 vaccination policy evaluation (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Junling Ma: Evaluating the effectiveness of contact tracing in Toronto during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (TCPL 201) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Jesse Shapiro: Transmission, adaptation, and within-host diversity of SARS-CoV-2 across animal species (TCPL 201) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Informal gathering ↓ (Other (See Description)) |
| Tuesday, November 14 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Caroline Colijn: Surveillance roundtable (part 1) (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Kevin Brown: Surveillance roundtable (part 2) (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Nathaniel Osgood: Compositional Modeling: Applied Category Theory in Support of Mathematical & Computational Epidemiology (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Mikael Jagan: Estimating phenomenological epidemic models with mixed effects (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Steve Walker: Introduction to epidemic modelling with the `macpan2` R package (TCPL 202) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Irena Papst: Hands on with `macpan2` and the historical infectious disease data portal (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Informal gathering ↓ (Other (See Description)) |
| Wednesday, November 15 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Rebecca Claire Tyson: Opinion dynamics: Mechanisms for multiple epidemic waves (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Azadeh Aghaeeyan: Revealing the unseen: What portion of the Americans relied on others’ satisfaction when deciding to take the COVID-19 vaccination (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Jenna Mee: Investigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Vulnerable Population using Agent-Based Modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Caroline Wagner: Multi-Pathogen Agent-Based Models for Disease Surveillance and Mitigation (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Lisa Kanary: Assessing the Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID Prevalence Using A Predator-Prey Lotka-Volterra Model Approach (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Group Hike / Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, November 16 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Brian Gaas: Better modeling through chemistry: quantifying Covid vaccine hesitancy (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Sana Naderi: Calculating population genetic metrics from wastewater sequencing data to predict SARS-CoV-2 waves (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Ben Ashby: Antigenic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompromised hosts (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Michael Wolfson: Toward Support for Epidemic Preparedness via Digital Twin Data (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Lloyd Elliott: Four applications of statistics to COVID-19 modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Jonathan Dushoff: Approaches to modeling cross immunity (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jane Heffernan: Multiscale modelling of COVID-19 immunity (TCPL 201) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Rob Deardon: Bayesian behavioural change epidemic models (TCPL 201) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Madeline Ward: Bayesian epidemic models with dynamic adherence to protective behaviour adoption (TCPL 201) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Julien Arino: Introductions and the stochastic phase of an epidemic (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | David Earn: Wrap up discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Informal gathering ↓ (Other (See Description)) |
| Friday, November 17 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Checkout by 11AM ↓ (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
