Wednesday Jan 18
Surveillance (chairman: Colizza)
John Edmunds (LSHTM), Predicting Pandemics: the Limits of Surveillance
John Brownstein (Harvard-MIT), Digital Disease Detection
Thierry Blanchon (INSERM), Web-based surveillance: the French GPs Sentinel network
Real-time epidemiology and public health 1 (chairman: Edmunds)
Peter J. White (Imperial), Implementing Lessons learned from the 2009-10
Influenza Pandemic in the UK: Improvements in Surveillance Systems and Key Areas for Further Work
Fabrice Carrat (INSERM), Lessons from the H1N12009 pandemic and highlights from an integrated project
Real-time epidemiology and public health 2 (chairman: White)
Babak Pourbohloul (U British Columbia), Supporting Pandemic Preparedness Decision-making with Integrated Real-time Modeling Framework
Caterina Rizzo (ISS), The Contribution of Mathematical Modelling to
Health Policy in Italy
Networks & Contacts 1 (chairman: Eubank)
Jacco Wallinga (UMC), Different Social Contact Patterns between Sexes
Alain Barrat (CNRS), Simulation of Epidemic Processes on Empirical Dynamic Networks of Human Contacts
Markus Schwehm (ExploSYS), Modelling the effect of age-dependent behaviour on the spread of pandemic and seasonal influenza
Dinner talk (chairman: Valleron)
Don Olson (ISDS), Searching for Better Surveillance? A Case Study in Local Knowledge, Data Quality and Accumulated Context for Syndromic Surveillance and Computational Epidemiology
Thursday Jan 19
Spatial modeling & tools for public health 1 (chairman: Longini)
Cecile Viboud (NIH), Spatial Dynamics of Acute Viral Infections
Gerardo Chowell (ASU), Spatio-temporal dynamics of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic in Mexico and Peru
Alex Vespignani (Northeastern & ISI Foundation), Real Time Numerical Forecast of Global Epidemic Spreading Using Large-scale Computational Models: Case Study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm
Spatial modeling & tools for public health 2 (chairman: Brownstein)
Dennis Chao (FHCRC), Modeling the Global Circulation of Influenza: Preliminary Results
James Kaufman (IBM), The Spatio-temporal Epidemiological Modeler: An open source Framework for Modeling Infectious Diseases
Livestock diseases (chairman: Colizza)
Rowland Kao (U Glasgow), Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Local Transmission Patterns of Mycobacterium Bovis in Sympatric Cattle and Badger Populations
Thomas Selhorst (FLI), Trade Networks of Livestock
Dinner talk (chairman: Vespignani)
Neil Ferguson (Imperial), Modelling malaria elimination
Friday Jan 20
Population structure and model design (chairman: Wallinga)
Elizabeth Halloran (U Washington), The Minicommunity Design to Estimate Indirect Effects of Vaccination
Stephen Eubank (VBI), A New Perspective on Some Old Questions
Ira M. Longini Jr (U Florida), Statistical and Mathematical Models for the Control of Dengue
Networks & contacts (chairman: Rizzo)
Fredrik Liljeros (U Stockholm), Patient flow and the Spread of Hospital Disease
Piero Manfredi (U Pisa), The Impact of Demographic Change on the Dynamics and Control of Infectious Diseases
Seasonal flu (chairman: Viboud)
Gabriela Gomes (IGC), On the Role of Weather in Influenza Epidemics
Lewi Stone (TAU), Seasonal Influenza in Israel

