NAME & AFFILIATION |
PERIOD OF VISIT |
TENTATIVE TITLE OF TALK |
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OVERSEAS VISITORS |
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Niels Gunther Becker
Australian National University, Australia
Niels.Becker@anu.edu.au |
4 - 9 Sep 2005 |
1) How
does mass immunisation affect disease incidence?
2) Immunisation
strategies for a community of households
3) Immunisation with a
partially effective vaccine
4) Preparedness for an
emerging infection
5) Vaccination
strategies when infection is dose dependent
Presentation slides (PPT):
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Shannon N. Bennett
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
sbennett@hawaii.edu |
11 - 16 Sep 2005 |
Long-term phylogenetic history of dengue from Puerto
Rico demonstrates selection and population dynamics in
sequence evolution |
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Tom Britton
Stockholm University, Sweden |
4 - 9 Sep 2005 |
Epidemics in heterogeneous communities and their
vaccination policies |
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Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Arizona State University, USA
chavez@math.asu.edu |
22 - 27 Aug 2005 |
1) The
role of crossimmunity on influenza dynamics
Presentation slides: PPT...
2) Models for
communicable diseases
Papers: ZIP...
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Ben Cooper
Health Protection Agency, UK
ben.cooper@hpa.org.uk |
25 - 30 Sep 2005 |
Modeling healthcare associated infections |
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Daryl Daley
Australian National University, Australia
daryl@maths.anu.edu.au |
14 - 25 Aug 2005 |
Heterogeneity in epidemic modeling |
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Hans-Peter Duerr
Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany
hans-peter.duerr@uni-tuebingen.de |
21 - 27 Aug 2005 |
Interventions in epidemics of influenza-like diseases -
insights from computer simulations |
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Arul Earnest
University of Sydney, Australia
arul_earnest@hotmail.com |
22 - 27 Sep 2005 |
Experiences of a medical statistician working in a SARS-designated hospital
Presentation slides: PPT... |
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Zhilan Feng
Purdue University, USA
zfeng@math.purdue.edu |
27 - 29 Sep 2005 |
Timely
identification of control strategies for emerging
infectious diseases |
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Azra Ghani
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
azra.ghani@lshtm.ac.uk |
14 - 19 Aug 2005 |
Sexual
networks and the evolution of sexually-transmitted
pathogens: N. gonorrhoeae as an example |
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Kathryn Anne Glass
Australian National University, Australia
kathryn.glass@anu.edu.au |
4 - 9 Sep 2005 |
Controlling international spread and monitoring
incidence of a newly-emerged infectious disease |
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John W Glasser
US CDC Atlanta, USA
jwg3@cdc.gov |
26 Sep - 1 Oct 2005 |
1)
Timely identification of control strategies for emerging
infectious diseases
2) En route to reliable
policymaking tools: models as hypotheses
3) 1997 Measles
outbreak in São Paulo, Brazil: evaluation of vaccination
strategies via mathematical modeling
4) Mathematical
modeling of Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome
5) Rubella in Romania: an evaluation of possible
vaccination strategies via mathematical modeling
6) Implications of an
explanation for secular patterns in reported Pertussis
in the United States
7) Mathematical
epidemiology of Varicella and Herpes Zoster
8) Re-introduction of
smallpox into dynamic, socially-structured and
spatially-distributed populations |
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Bryan Grenfell
Pennsylvania State University, USA
btg2@psu.edu |
21 - 26 Aug 2005 |
Waves, sparks and herd immunity in the
dynamics of infectious diseases |
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Herbert W Hethcote
University of Iowa, USA
herbert-hethcote@uiowa.edu |
13 - 20 Aug 2005 |
1)
The basic epidemiology models I: models and expressions
for Ro
Lecture notes: PDF...
2) The basic
epidemiology models II: parameter estimation and
applications
Lecture notes: PDF...
3) Epidemiology models
with variable population size
Lecture notes: PDF...
4) Age structured
epidemiology models and expressions for Ro
Lecture notes: PDF...
5) Simulations of
rubella vaccination strategies in China |
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Ying-Hen Hsieh
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
hsieh@amath.nchu.edu.tw |
25 Sep - 1 Oct 2005 |
Modeling of infectious diseases and its implications for
public health policy-making |
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Valerie Isham
University of College London, UK
valerie@stats.ucl.ac.uk |
21 - 26 Aug 2005 |
The role
of stochasticity in epidemic models |
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Yuguo Li
University of Hong Kong, China
liyg@hku.hk |
27 - 29 Sep 2005 |
Back-calculation and environmental modeling for the 2003
SARS epidemic and developing effective engineering
control methods
Lecture notes: PDF... |
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Natalia B. Mantilla-Beniers
University of Cambridge, UK
natalia@zoo.cam.ac.uk |
14 - 20 Aug 2005 |
Determinants and consequences of seasonality in measles
dynamics |
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Eduardo Massad
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
edmassad@dim.fm.usp.br |
4 - 18 Sep 2005 |
Imperfect HIV vaccines and the
evolution of virulence |
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Ingemar Nåsell
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
ingemar@math.kth.se |
13 - 20 Aug 2005 |
The
critical community size of the classic endemic model |
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Oliver George Pybus
University of Oxford, UK
oliver.pybus@zoo.ox.ac.uk |
10 - 16 Sep 2005 |
1) Phylodynamics: unifying the
evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics of viral
pathogens
2) Evolutionary analysis
of viral genomes 1: quantifying genetic diversity
3) Evolutionary analysis
of viral genomes 2: phylogenies for epidemiologists
4) Evolutionary analysis
of viral genomes 3: coalescent models
5) Evolutionary analysis
of viral genomes 4: natural selection & viral adaptation
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Steven Riley
University of Hong Kong, China
steven.riley@hku.hk |
14 - 19 Aug 2005 |
Smallpox
transmission and control: spatial dynamics in the
mainland United Kingdom |
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Yiming Shao
National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention and
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
yshao@bbn.cn |
14 - 15 Sep 2005 |
HIV molecular evolution and its impact
on AIDS epidemic in China |
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Ziv Shkedy
Limburgs Universitair Centrum (LUC), Belgium
ziv.shkedy@luc.ac.be |
3 - 17 Sep 2005 |
1) Model
based estimates of long-terms persistence of induced
hepatitis A antibodies
2) Estimating the force of infection from serological
data |
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Chris Skelly
Institute for the Environment, Brunel University, UK
(formerly with the Insitute of Environmental Science &
Research Limited, New Zealand)
chris.skelly@brunel.ac.uk |
25 Sep - 1 Oct 2005 |
SituationESP: simulation tools for disease surveillance
groups |
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Jacco Wallinga
National Institutes of Public Health
and the Environment, Netherland
jacco.wallinga@rivm.nl |
11 - 17 Sep 2005 |
From
infection cycles to pathogen phylogeny |
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Ping Yan
Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Ping_Yan@phac-aspc.gc.ca |
25 Sep - 5 Oct 2005 |
Some
probability distributions and underlying stochastic
mechansims in infectious disease transmission modelling
Paper:
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Paul Yip
University of Hong Kong, China
sfpyip@hku.hk |
4 - 8 Sep 2005 |
A chain
multinomial model for estimating real time fatality rate
of a disease with application to severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) |
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GRADUATE STUDENT |
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Yik-Ying Teo
Oxford University, UK
teo@stats.ox.ac.uk |
9 - 17 Sep 2005
(tentative) |
Marker
selection for population structure in genetic
association studies |
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Lin Yang
University of Hong Kong, China
lyang@hkusua.hku.hk |
20 - 26 Aug 2005 |
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LOCAL VISITORS |
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Bruce Adlam
Ministry of Health, Singapore
bruce_adlam@moh.gov.sg |
26 - 30 Sep 2005 |
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Mark Chen
Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
mark_chen@pacific.net.sg |
24 Aug - 2 Oct 2005 |
Recent changes in the local
epidemiology of dengue: the view from outside
Presentation slides: PDF |
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Angela Chow
Ministry of Health, Singapore
angela_chow@moh.gov.sg |
5 - 9 Sep 2005 |
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Tim Hart
Environmental Health Institute, Singapore
tim_hart@nea.gov.sg |
12 - 16 Sep 2005 |
Characterization of dengue viruses from Singapore at the
Environmental Health Institute |
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Vernon Jian Ming Lee
Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
vernon_lee_jm@ttsh.com.sg |
26 - 30 Sep 2005 |
Economic
outcomes of influenza pandemic stockpiling strategies in
Singapore |
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Christina Liew
Environmental Health Institute, Singapore
christina_liew@nea.gov.sg |
5 - 9 Sep 2005 |
Some entomological factors in dengue
dynamics in Singapore |
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Anthony Kuk
National University of Singapore
stakuka@nus.edu.sg |
15 Aug - 9 Oct 2005 |
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Stefan Ma
Ministry of Health, Singapore
Stefan_MA@moh.gov.sg |
15 Aug - 9 Oct 2005 |
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Steven Ooi
Ministry of Health, Singapore
ooi_peng_lim@moh.gov.sg |
26 - 30 Sep 2005 |
Epidemic
dengue: recrudescence of an old enemy |
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Lawrence Walter Stanton
Genome Institute of Singapore
stantonl@gis.a-star.edu.sg |
12 - 16 Sep 2005 |
Conducting genomic research on SARS during and after the
outbreak |
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Paul Anantharajah Tambyah
National University of Singapore
mdcpat@nus.edu.sg |
5 - 9 Sep 2005 |
The relationship between antibiotic use
and antibiotic resistance - why we need the help of our
mathematicians |
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Ye Tun
Ministry of Health, Singapore
ye_tun@moh.gov.sg |
5 - 9 Sep 2005 |
Sexually transmitted infections : An early warning indicator for
HIV spread in low prevalence countries |
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Yingcun Xia
National University of Singapore
staxyc@nus.edu.sg |
15 Aug - 9 Oct 2005 |
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Eric Yap
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
ericyap@dso.org.sg |
12 - 16 Sep 2005 |
The biological significance of tandem
repeats in the bacterial genomes |
