SMIDDY was revived by the infectious disease researchers at University of Bern in 2023. The first meeting took place on October 20, 2023, in Bern from 8:45 to 18:30. The theme of this meeting was “Modelling infectious diseases during the pandemic: advances in methods and its role for policy making.”
The morning session was chaired by Sonja Lehtinen and the afternoon session by Andrew Azman.
| Time | Presenter(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Welcome coffee & Admission | |
| 9:15 | Judith Bouman, Joseph Lemaitre, Martin Wohlfender, and Christian Althaus | Opening remarks and presentation of the new SMIDDY |
| 9:30 | Samir Bhatt University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Keynote: Infectious diseases and their control – a modelling perspective |
| 10:20 | Flavio Finger Médecins Sans Frontières Epicentre | From the code to the field – perspectives on the use of epidemiological models in humanitarian contexts |
| 10:35 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Javier Perez-Saez Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève | When purpose matters: four goals of mechanistic modeling for public health |
| 11:15 | Jacob Curran-Sebastian University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Calculation of Epidemic First Passage and Peak Timing Distributions |
| 11:30 | Laura di Domenico Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern | Data-driven modeling of COVID-19 spread in France to inform pandemic response |
| 11:45 | Parham Sendi and Urs Mayr Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) | Building ships while weathering a storm: Gathering and analyzing data for decision-making during a pandemic |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15 | Jacco Wallinga RIVM (Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), Netherlands | Keynote: Infectious Disease Data Analytics and Modeling: mpox, COVID-19 |
| 14:05 | David Dreifuss Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich | Wastewater-Based Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland: Variant Detection, Tracking, and Modelling |
| 14:20 | Coffee break + poster session | |
| 15:20 | Tanja Stadler, Samir Bhatt, Jacco Wallinga, Urs Mayr and Christian Althaus | Panel discussion: Modelling infectious diseases during the pandemic: advances in methods and its role for policy making Panel chair: Christian Althaus |
| 16:15 | Beatriz Vidondo Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern | Disease Dynamics African Swine Fever: wild boar movement/fleeing behaviour and network analysis of habitat patches |
| 16:30 | Marco Labarile University of Zürich | Quantifying and Predicting Ongoing HIV-1 Transmission Dynamics in Switzerland |
| 16:45 | Cécile Viboud Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, USA | Remote keynote: The US COVID-19 and influenza Scenario Modeling Hubs: generating long-term projections for decision-making |
| 17:15 | Apero | |
| 18:30 | Meeting end |
Posters
| Presenter | Poster title |
|---|---|
| Laurent Bächler, Pour Demain | Is Early Detection of Pandemics Cost-Effective? Economic Study on Pathogen Surveillance in Switzerland |
| Kaspar Staub, University of Zurich | Quantifying and reconstructing the “Spanish flu” in Zurich, 1918-1920 |
| Cristiano Trevisin, EPFL | A spatially explicit framework for effective reproduction numbers and epidemiological reactivity |
| Nicolas Banholzer,University of Bern | Effectiveness assessment of non-pharmaceutical interventions: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Cecilia Valenzuela Agui, ETH | Phylodynamics of asymptomatic infections: a SARS-CoV-2 screening study in the Swiss army |
| Juan Antonio Magalang,University of Bern | A Markov chain model for drug resistance with therapy changes |