SMIDDY 2015 was organized by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and took place in Basel on Tuesday, 20 October 2015.
| 09:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 09:25 | Welcome remarks |
| 09:30 | On the necessity to integrate epidemiology and ecology Prof. Dr. Hans Heesterbeek Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Farm Animal Health, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 10:20 | A general model for multiple infections with applications to HPV Dr. Samuel Alizon CNRS, Montpellier, France |
| 10:40 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Statistical challenges when analysing emerging epidemic outbreaks Prof. Dr. Tom Britton Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 11:50 | Phylodynamic analysis of an Ebola virus epidemic Louis du Plessis Computational Evolution, D-BSSE, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 12:10 | Digital Epidemiology Prof. Dr. Marcel Salathé School of Life Sciences & School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Rabies simulation in a non-endemic environment using a novel dog-dog transmission model Dr. Salome Dürr Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 14:20 | (Simple) infectious disease models as basis for economic decision making Beat Thomann Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 14:40 | Combining personal protection and mosquito killing into effect on malaria transmission: Modeling how holes in long-lasting insecticidal nets compromise their efficacy against pyrethroid resistant mosquitoes Dr. Olivier Briët Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland |
| 15:00 | The public health impact and cost-effectiveness of malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S/AS01: a systematic comparison of predictions from four mathematical models Dr. Melissa Penny Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland |
| 15:20 | Coffee |
| 15:40 | Analysing steps in evolution of multidrug antibiotic resistance in a clinical patient infected with Klebsiella pneumonia Prof. Dr. Marc Creus Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 16:00 | What is additivity? Linking ad-hoc combination terms to mechanistic multi-hit models Désirée Bäder Institute of Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 16:20 | Investigating the consequences of interference between multiple CD8+ T cell escape mutations in early HIV infection Dr. Victor Garcia Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 16:40 | Closing remarks |
| 17:00 | Apéro |