SMIDDY 2012 was organized by the Institute of Modelling and Simulation IMS and the St.Gallen Innovation Centre IZSG and took place at the Rathaus in St. Gallen on Thursday, 30 August 2012.
| 09:20 | Welcome address |
| 09:30 | Modelling in Infectious Diseases, will physicians trust the results? (Slides) Prof. Dr. Pietro Vernazza Division of Infectious Diseases, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 10:15 | How does HIV-1 drug resistance evolve at a population level? (Slides) Dr. George Shirreff Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10:35 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Generalized multistate simulation model GEMSIM to test the effectiveness of health interventions: development and first applications (Slides) Luisa Salazar Vizcaya & Nello Blaser Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 11:20 | A Demographic Model of Mongolian Livestock Populations (Slides) Dr. Nakul Chitnis Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 11:40 | Demographic model of the Swiss cattle population 2009-2011 (Slides) Prof. Dr. Jakob Zinsstag Human and Animal Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Human Factors Design for Patient Safety PD Dr. med. Hugo Sax Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
| 14:15 | Estimation of the reproduction number for the Pandemic Influenza A/H1N1 2009 in India (Slides) Ali Sheikh Taslim Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK |
| 14:35 | Case and partnership reproduction numbers for a curable sexually transmitted infection (Slides) Janneke Heijne, Msc Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 14:55 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | Forecasting Malaria: ensemble modelling and predicting the impact of interventions Dr. Melissa Penny Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 15:50 | Modelling the requirements and benefits of mosquito control interventions in the presence of mosquito dispersal (Slides) Angelina M. Lutambi Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 16:10 | Closing address |