NCCID's new mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling concepts and research for public health.
In this episode, we spoke with Dr Jane Heffernan from York University about using mathematical modelling methods for understanding and controlling infectious diseases in individuals (or immunology) and in populations (or epidemiology), and discuss the differences between within-host and population-level modelling.
NCCID's new mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling concepts and research for public health. In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr Melanie Cousins from the Public Health Agency of Canada about some of her PhD work, which was recently published in an article titled "Is scientific evidence enough? Using expert opinion to fill gaps in data in antimicrobial resistance research".
NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling concepts and research for public health.
Today, we will be speaking to Man Wah Yeung and Dr Beate Sander about the recently published Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programs in Canada, produced by the National Advisory Committee on Immunizations, or NACI. Man Wah is a Senior Health Economist at the Public Health Agency of Canada and Beate is a Canadian Research Chair in Economics of Infectious Diseases, Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, and a Professor of at the University of Toronto. Man Wah and Beate are two of many experts who have worked together to create these guidelines on how to conduct economic evaluations of public health intervention strategies.
This episode will provide an overview of the NACI Health Economics Guidelines, and how they can be used to inform best practices and promote standardized and high-quality evidence for public health decision making.
NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant math modelling concepts and research for public health.
In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr Michael Li, who is a Senior Scientist at the National Microbiology Lab, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Michael currently applies his modelling skill set at PHAC in the development and analysis of disease transmission models of COVID-19, mpox transmission, and other infectious diseases in Canada.
Today, Michael spoke with us about a fairly gigantic topic - the past, present, and future of infectious disease modelling for public health.
NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling research for public health.
In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr. Gwen Knight.
She is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and co-Director of the LSHTM Antimicrobial Resistance Centre. Gwen’s research is focused on mathematical modelling of the interactions between demographic factors and antimicrobial resistance (or AMR), One Health approaches to AMR at the farm level, and the interactions between bacteria and bacteriophage. Gwen spoke with us about her research in modelling antibiotic resistance and the implications of this work for public health.
NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling research for public health.
In this episode, we will be speaking to Dr. Rachael Milwid.
After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University, Rachael joined the Public Health Agency of Canada in August 2021. Since then, she has used her mathematical modelling skill set in the development and analysis of disease transmission models of COVID-19 importation into Canada, mpox transmission, and other exciting projects.
Today, Rachael spoke with us about her experiences and considerations as a math modelling researcher during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NCCID's new Mod4PH Research Highlights podcast showcases new and relevant mathematical modelling research for public health.
We first speak with with Jesse Knight, a final year Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. Working with Dr. Sharmistha Mishra at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions of St. Michael's Hospital, Jesse's research uses simulation models to help support response to infectious disease epidemics with a focus on HIV. Jesse speaks to NCCID's Wendy Xie about his recent work on maximizing the impact of limited vaccine supply under different early mpox epidemic conditions using mathematical modelling.
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