Clinic Schedule

Daily overview

Sunday

Interactive session 1a

Interactive session 1b

Individual session 1

Please complete the following between the end of Sunday’s interactive session and the beginning of Monday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 06:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 17:00 Tea with African Faculty
    • 16:30 (optional)

Monday

Interactive session 2a

ICI3D::dynamicalFever()

Interactive session 2b

  • 01:30-02:00 Discussion: Dynamical Fever (Larisse Bolton)
  • 02:00-03:30 Small group session: research questions for modeling projects (All faculty)

Individual session 2

Please complete the following between the end of Monday’s interactive session and the beginning of Tuesday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 06:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 19:30 Tea with African Faculty

Tuesday

Interactive session 3a

Interactive session 3b

  • 01:30-02:00 Exercise: Simple individual-based models (Carl Pearson)
    • To get started, run the following command at the R Studio command line (after installing the ICI3D package):
ICI3D::reedFrost()
  • 02:00-03:30 Exercise: Creating a model world to address a research question ((mwangi))

Individual session 3

Please complete the following between the end of Tuesday’s interactive session and the beginning of Wednesday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 06:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 19:30 Tea with African Faculty

Wednesday

Interactive session 4a

  • 22:30-22:45 Daily recap ((li))
  • 22:45-23:00 Summary and discussion: Stochastic simulation models (Becky Borchering)
  • 23:00-00:30 Small-group session: matching models to questions (All faculty)

Interactive session 4b

  • 01:30-01:45 Summary and discussion: Impact of contact patterns, consequences of heterogeneity, and modeling options (Jonathan Dushoff)
  • 01:45-02:30 Tutorial: Heterogeneity in disease emergence (Jonathan Dushoff, Carl Pearson, (li))
    • To get started, run the following command at the R Studio command line (after installing the ICI3D package):
ICI3D::heterogeneityTutorial()

Individual session 4

Please complete the following between the end of Wednesday’s interactive session and the beginning of Thursday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 06:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 19:00 Tea with African Faculty

Thursday

Interactive session 5a

  • 22:30-22:50 Regroup after feedback (Juliet Pulliam)
  • 22:50-23:05 Daily recap ((mwangi))
  • 23:05-23:20 Summary and discussion: Models and data: introduction to model fitting (Larisse Bolton)
  • 23:20-00:30 Writing exercise: description of proposed model and assumptions ((reiner))

Interactive session 5b

  • 01:30-03:00 Tutorial: Model fitting ((li))
    • To get started, run the following command at the R Studio command line (after installing the ICI3D package):
ICI3D::hivTutorial()

Individual session 5

Please complete the following between the end of Thursday’s interactive session and the beginning of Friday’s interactive session.

Reminder:

  • 06:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 19:00 Tea with African Faculty

Friday

Interactive session 6a

  • 22:30-22:45 Daily recap ((reiner))
  • 22:45-23:00 Summary and discussion: Model evaluation and comparison (Jonathan Dushoff)
  • 23:00-00:30 Live lecture: Use of models in public health decision-making (Faculty research presentation) - Now with more COVID! (Carl Pearson)

Interactive session 6b

Individual session 6

Please complete the following between the end of Friday’s interactive session and the beginning of Saturday’s interactive session.

Special session: 04:00-05:30

  • One-on-one mentoring sessions with Borchering, Dushoff, Li, de Leo, and Reiner

Reminder:

  • 06:30 Tea with North American Faculty
  • 19:00 Tea with African Faculty

Saturday

Individual session 7

Special session: 18:00-19:30

  • One-on-one mentoring sessions with Bolton, Mwangi, Pearson, and Pulliam

Interactive session 7a

  • 22:30-22:45 Daily recap ((li))
  • 22:45-00:30 Discussion of research plans/proposals (Moderator: Jonathan Dushoff)

Interactive session 7b