Introduction to Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology & Control of Infectious Diseases - 2024

Welcome to the Imperial College London short course "Introduction to Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases" (infectiousdiseasemodels.org).

Week 1

Introduction to R0 and the odin interface

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Estimating key parameters from an outbreak of COVID and influenza

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Supporting files

• Influenza data
• solution1.R
• solution2.R

Modelling vaccination

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Stochasticity

There are four apps for this session

1. Birth process
2. Birth and death
3. SIS model
4. SIR model

Week 2

Modelling vector-borne diseases

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Outbreaks

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Supporting files

• flowcharts, describing the models that should be written
• input data

Malaria

Basic model

Vaccine coverage example

HIV

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Help

A general help file for writing model (odin) code and navigating the interface can be found here.

For transitioning from this interface into R and Rstudio we have compiled a list of useful resources and a simple example to start the transition