SMIDDY is a one-day, in-person meeting on October 20, 2023, in Bern, from 8:45 to 18:30. We are also delighted to offer SMIDDY 2023 meeting free of charge, including lunch and coffee ☕️🌮.
The theme of this meeting is “Modelling infectious diseases during the pandemic: advances in methods and its role for policy making“.
This pages features the meeting agenda, the list of posters presented and an access map. We’re looking forward to see you there.
Agenda
- Morning session chair: Sonja Lehtinen
- Afternoon session chair: Andrew Azman
| Time | Presenter(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Welcome coffee & Admission 📍Room: F-121, building: Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern (gmap link) | |
| 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 (provided) | |
| 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 📍Provisorium46 Muesmattstrasse 46, 3012 Bern, (gmap link) | |
| 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 |
Access Map
