Note that the schedule below shows the generic Clinic outline. The exact schedule for any given year’s Clinic may differ.
Saturday
- 15:00 Hotel check-in available for faculty and international participants
- 18:00 Early arrivals may meet in the lobby for an informal group dinner
Sunday, 10 Dec
- 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?
- 16:45-17:30 What is Science: models and data
- 17:30-17:45 Working with the DAIDD 2017 Dropbox Folder
- 17:45-18:30 Ice breakers
- 18:30 Dinner as a group
Monday, 11 Dec
- 7:00 Transfer to White Oak
- breakfast upon arrival
- 8:40-10:30 Research pitches
- 10:30-11:00 Morning break
- 11:00 - 12:30 Simplification for generalization 1: Intuitive aspects of dynamics and introduction to model worlds
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch
- 2:00-2:15 Introduction to White Oak
- 2:30-2:45 Overview of research plan development and structure
- 2:45-3:40 Writing exercise: formulating research questions for modeling projects
- 3:40-4:00 Afternoon break
- 4:00-5:45 Dynamical Fever - computer exercise and discussion
- 5:45-6:00 Dynamical Fever - model description, modeling terminology and taxonomy
- 6:00-6:30 Welcome reception
Tuesday, 12 Dec
- 8:40-9:00 Faculty research presentation
- 9:00-10:30 The SIR model family - conceptual framework and introduction to difference and differential equations
- 10:30-11:00 Morning break
- 11:00-11:45 Small group session: research questions for modeling projects
- 11:45-12:30 Reed-Frost models
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch break
- 2:00-3:00 Reed-Frost models (continued)
- 3:00-4:15 Use of models in study design for dynamic systems: Ebola vaccine trial design
- 4:15-4:45 Afternoon break
- 4:45-6:00 Exercise: Creating a model world to address a research question
- 8:00-9:00 Mid-session feedback
Wednesday, 13 Dec
- 8:40-9:00 Faculty research presentation
- 9:00-11:00 Stochastic simulation models
- 11:00-11:30 Morning break
- 11:30-12:30 Modeling in practice: The life cycle of a modeling project, from conception to publication
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch break
- 2:00-3:45 Impact of contact patterns, consequences of heterogeneity, and modeling options
- 3:45-4:15 Afternoon break
- 4:15-5:15 Small-group session: matching models to questions
- 5:15-6:00 Work session
- 8:00-9:00 Mid-session feedback
Thursday, 14 Dec
- 8:40-9:00 Faculty research presentation
- 9:00-10:45 Writing exercise - description of proposed model and assumptions
- 10:45-10:55 Regroup after feedback
- 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
- 3:15-3:45 Afternoon break
- 3:45-4:30 Model fitting tutorial
- 4:30-6:00 Writing exercise & mentored working session
- 8:00-9:00 Social activity
Friday, 15 Dec
- 8:40-9:00 Faculty research presentation
- 9:00-10:30 Use of models in public health decision-making: Dengue vaccination roll-out
- 10:30-11:00 Morning break
- 11:00-12:00 Model evaluation and comparison
- 12:00-12:30 Simplification for generalization 2: Models and the bigger picture
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch break
- 2:00-3:30 Mentored working session
- 4:00 Depart White Oak
- 4:30-6:00 Writing exercise
- 7:00-8:30 Group dinner
Saturday, 16 Dec
- 8:15-9:00 Breakfast
- 9:15-9:50 Discussion of research plans/proposals
- 9:50-10:00 Short break
- 10:00-10:50 Discussion of research plans/proposals
- 10:50-11:10 Short break
- 11:10-12:15 Final feedback session
- 12:15-12:30 Closing session
- 12:30-13:00 Lunch