Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling Workshop 2026

Welcome to the Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling Workshop! Use the links below to navigate to the respective day's practical. At the end of each day, additional resources including model answers for each practical will be made available.

Material for practicals

Introduction to R0 and the wodin programming environment

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Supporting files

• sir_open.R
• sir_open_r0.R
• seirs.R
Solutions (click to expand)
exponential.R
sir_closed.R

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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Modelling vector-borne diseases

There are two apps for this session

1. Simple model
2. Latent model

Help

A general help file for writing model code in odin 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