Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases

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label Diverse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:00 history_edu Diana Ignat
In recent years mathematical modeling has become a valuable tool in the analysis of infectious disease dynamics and to support the development of control strategies. This course will give a thorough introduction to the conceptual ideas and mathematical tools needed for infectious disease modeling.The focus will be on the dynamics of infectious diseases, the analysis of transmission patterns in various populations and methods to assess the effectiveness of control strategies.

These methods will be illustrated with examples of specific infections such as HIV, childhood infections, influenza, and vector borne diseases. The principles of modeling will be addressed in the first week of the course and expanded to more in-depth level in the advanced second week of the course.

The aim is to provide the participants with the knowledge to evaluate and judge infectious disease epidemiology research and data analysis using mathematical modeling techniques. Topics are among others: basic reproduction ratio, deterministic and stochastic models, population heterogeneity, statistical inference, population biology and vaccination. Participants will learn to design and analyze mathematical models using specialized software.

Period
08-07-2013 - 19-07-2013 (2 weeks)

Target group
Epidemiologists, (theoretical) biologists, applied mathematicians, biostatisticians, professionals with an interest in infection dynamics and application of mathematical modelling in epidemiology.

Course aim
Understand the basic concepts of infectious disease modelling; ability of formulating and analysing a simple model; knowledge of how to estimate some basic parameters.



Credits
3.0 ECTS credits

Certificate of Attendance

Course fee
EUR 1735: Course + course materials + housing

EUR 1400: Course + course materials Students can also choose to attend the first week of the course only. The course fee for one week is 855,- (excluding housing).

Course leader
Don Klinkenberg

Scholarships
Utrecht Summer School doesn't offer scholarships for this course.

Utrecht University
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Country: Netherlands
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