Clinic Schedule

14:30-15:00 Required for international participants only: Check-in for B-1 visa holders (Bellan)
15:00 Hotel check-in available for all participants
16:00-16:30 Welcome and introductions
16:30-16:45 What are we doing here? (Steve Bellan) - Download roadmap, Slides to be added
16:45-17:30 What is Science: models and data (Brian Williams) - Slides
17:30-17:45 Working with the DAIDD 2016 Dropbox Folder (Carl Pearson)
- Make sure your slides are uploaded for tomorrow’s morning session!
17:45-18:30 Ice breakers (Gavin Hitchcock)
18:30 Dinner as a group

7:00 Transfer to White Oak
- breakfast upon arrival
9:00-10:30 Research pitches (Moderator: Jonathan Dushoff)
10:30-11:00 Morning break
11:00 - 12:30 Simplification for generalization 1: Intuitive aspects of dynamics and introduction to model worlds (Juliet Pulliam) - Slides, Reference: Tran et al (2014) PLOS One
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:15 Introduction to White Oak
2:30-2:45 Overview of research plan development and structure (Juliet Pulliam)
2:45-3:40 Writing exercise: formulating research questions for modeling projects (Cari van Schalkwyk) - Step-by-step guide
3:40-4:00 Afternoon break
4:00-5:45 Dynamical Fever - computer exercise and discussion (Eva Ujeneza)
5:45-6:00 Dynamical Fever - model description, modeling terminology and taxonomy (Juliet Pulliam) - Download
6:00-6:30 Welcome reception
8:00-9:00 Faculty research presentations (Borchering, Ujeneza)

9:00-10:30 The SIR model family - conceptual framework and introduction to difference and differential equations (Jonathan Dushoff) -Slides, Source for slides, Exercise
- Spreadsheet; Previous spreadsheet (includes spreadsheet Gillespie)
10:30-11:00 Morning break
11:00-11:45 Small group session: research questions for modeling projects (All faculty) - Group assignments
11:45-12:30 Reed-Frost models (Carl Pearson) - Slides
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:00 Reed-Frost models continued (Carl Pearson) - Slides
3:00-4:15 Use of models in study design for dynamic systems: Ebola vaccine trial design (Steve Bellan) - Slides, Reference: Bellan et al. (2015) Lancet Inf Dis
4:15-4:45 Afternoon break - Make sure your research question is in the researchQuestions folder on Dropbox before the next session!
4:45-6:00 Exercise: Creating a model world to address a research question (Juliet Pulliam) - Step-by-step guide - Ebola Papers by ICI3D Faculty
8:00-9:00 Faculty research presentations (van Schalkwyk, Williams)

9:00-11:00 Stochastic simulation models (Becky Borchering) - Slides - Stochastic Simulation Code
11:00-11:30 Morning break
11:30-12:30 Modeling in practice: The life cycle of a modeling project, from conception to publication (Steve Bellan) - Slides, Reference: Bellan et al. (2015) PLOS Medicine
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:45 Impact of contact patterns, consequences of heterogeneity, and modeling options (Jonathan Dushoff) - Slides, Source for slides, Exercise summary
3:45-4:15 Afternoon break
4:15-5:15 Small-group session: matching models to questions (All faculty) - Group assignments
5:15-6:00 Work session
8:00-9:00 Mid-session feedback (Gavin Hitchcock)

9:00-10:45 Writing exercise - description of proposed model and assumptions (Cari van Schalkwyk) - Groups (to be added)
10:45-10:55 Regroup after feedback (Steve Bellan)
10:55-11:00 Group Photo
11:00-1:00 Game Drive
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Models and data: introduction to model fitting (Steve Bellan) - Slides
3:15-3:45 Afternoon break
3:45-4:30 Model fitting tutorial (All faculty) - Boxcar Model Slides
4:30-6:00 Writing exercise & mentored working session (All faculty)
8:00-9:00 Social activity (Steve Bellan)

9:00-10:30 Use of models in public health decision-making: Dengue vaccination roll-out (Carl Pearson) - Slides - Flasche et al. 2016, Hladish et al. 2016
10:30-11:00 Morning break
11:00-12:00 Model evaluation and comparison (Jonathan Dushoff) - Slides, Handouts
12:00-12:30 Simplification for generalization 2: Models and the bigger picture (Juliet Pulliam) - Slides
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:30 Mentored working session (All faculty) - Group assignments
- Be sure to submit your written model description and final (digital) model diagram before your one-on-one meeting. (See instructions)
4:00 Depart White Oak
4:30-6:00 Writing exercise - revise based on feedback and plan for moving forward (including identified resources and potential collaborators)
7:00-8:30 Dinner at Green Papaya

PHONES ON SILENT!!
8:15-9:00 Breakfast
- Be sure to submit your final research plan by 9:00
9:15-9:50 Discussion of research plans/proposals (Moderator: Jonathan Dushoff)
9:50-10:00 Short break
10:00-10:50 Discussion of research plans/proposals (Moderator: Jonathan Dushoff)
10:50-11:10 Short break
11:10-12:15 Final feedback session (Gavin Hitchcock)
12:15-12:30 Closing session (Steve Bellan)
12:30-13:00 Lunch

Clinic on Dynamical Approaches to Infectious Disease Data