The SMIDDY symposium on infectious disease epidemiology will take place on Wednesday, 20 April 2016, from 11:00 to 12:30 (see program below).
Before the symposium, there will be a plenary on “The IT revolution for health” (Chair: Edward Kelly, Speakers: Marcel Salathé, Effy Vayena, Amadoune Touré) from 09:00 to 10:30.
SMIDDY participants will be able to attend the full program of the Geneva Health Forum during 20 April 2016.
| 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 |