SMIDDY 2016 took place as a symposium at the Geneva Health Forum 2016 on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, from 11:00 to 12:30, at the Centre International de Conférences de Genève (CICG).

Before the symposium, there was a plenary on “The IT revolution for health” (Chair: Edward Kelly, Speakers: Marcel Salathé, Effy Vayena, Amadoune Touré) from 09:00 to 10:30.

11:00	Zika virus as a cause of neurologic disorders Fabienne Krauer Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland
11:25	Modeling the spread of cholera using human mobility estimates derived from mobile phone records Flavio Finger Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Institute of Environmental Engineering, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
11:50	A stochastic SIR model with non-linear mass action Tapiwa Ganyani Center for Statistics, Hasselt University, Belgium
12:15	Potential impact of sexual transmission of Ebola virus on the epidemic in West Africa Dr. Christian L. Althaus Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland