- The content below relates to the Foundation Week of MMED.
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Introduction
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Schedule
Day 1
- 07h45-08h15 Breakfast
- 09h00-09h20 Organizing Session: Introductions, Overview (everyone, Main Hall)
- 09h20-10h30 Discussion: Public health, epidemiology, and infectious disease modelling (Carl, Main Hall)
- Faculty meeting and dinner in E313 from 16h30; be sure to save food for late arrivals once known
- 10h30-11h00 Coffee
- 11h00-12h00 Lecture: Introduction to infectious disease dynamics, Part I (Zinhle, Main Hall)
- 12h00-13h00 Lecture: Simple Models (Carl, Main Hall)
- 13h00-14h00 Lunch
- 14h00-15h30 Comp. Session: Tutorial 1: Introduction to R and Epidemic curves (Tutors, Comp. Lab)
- 15h30-16h00 Free - take a walk!
- 16h00-17h00 Comp. Session: Tutorial 1 cont. (Tutors, Comp. Lab)
- 17h00-17h45 Discussion: How to read a scientific paper (Carl, Main Hall)
- 17h45-18h00 Organizing Session: Introduction to projects (Carl, Main Hall)
- End of Day Questions
Day 2
- 07h45-08h15 Breakfast
- 08h30-09h00 Reading time for a scientific paper
- 09h00-10h30 Lecture: Introduction to infectious disease dynamics, Part II (Zinhle, Main Hall)
- “The” R0 paper (might need unpaywall or similar tools to access)
- 10h30-11h00 Coffee
- 11h00-12h00 Lecture: Dynamics of directly transmitted pathogens (Carl, Main Hall)
- 12h00-13h00 Comp. Session: Tutorial 2: More on Vectors, Data Frames, and Functions, and SEIR (Tutors, Comp. Lab)
- 13h00-14h00 Lunch
- 14h00-15h30 Comp. Session: Tutorial 2 & benchmark questions, and SEIR & Benchmark questions (Tutors, Comp. Lab)
- 15h30-16h00 Free - take a walk!
- 16h00-18h00 Group Work: Project development (Group Breakouts)
- End of Day Questions
Day 3
- 07h45-08h15 Breakfast
- 08h30-09h30 Group Work: Project development (Group Breakouts)
- from 08h30, each group will check in with Carl (odd, in 105) or Zinhle (even, lobby): 08h30 1 and 2, 08h50 3 and 4, 09h10 5 and 6
- Project Groups
- 09h30-10h30 Discussion: How did you read a scientific paper? (Carl, Comp. Lab)
- 10h30-11h00 Coffee
- 11h00-11h45 Lecture: Study Design and Analysis in Epidemiology: Where does modeling fit? (Carl, Main Hall)
- 11h45-13h00 Comp. Session: Lab 3: Study Design in Epidemiology (Tutors, Comp. Lab)
- 13h00-14h00 Lunch
- 14h00-15h30 Comp. Session: Binomial Distribution Tutorial (Tutors, Comp. Lab)
- 15h30-16h00 Free - take a walk!
- 16h00-18h00 Group Work: Project development (Group Breakouts)
- End of Day Questions
Day 4
- 07h45-08h15 Breakfast
- 08h30-09h15 Lecture: Study Design and Analysis, part II: RCT’s (Carl, Main Hall)
- Side reading: CDC on the Tuskegee Experiment, Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report
- 09h15-10h30 Comp. Session: Lab 4: Study Design for Clinical Trials (Tutors, Comp. Lab)
- 10h30-11h00 Coffee
- 11h00-12h00 Lecture: Transmission in Finite Populations (Zinhle, Main Hall)
- 12h00-13h00 Group Work: Project development, with progress checkin (Comp. Lab)
- All checkins in the lab. Odd groups check in with Carl, even with Zinhle. Be prepared to show your draft report, slides, and poster.
- Project Groups
- 13h00-14h00 Lunch
- 14h00-15h30 Group Work: Project development
- 15h30-16h00 Free - take a walk!
- 16h00-18h00 Comp. Session: If incomplete: review questions from Lab 4: Study Design for Clinical Trials (Tutors), Tutorial 3: Probability Distributions and Control Structures, and review questions (Tutors, Comp. Lab). Otherwise Project development
- Final Fundamentals Week Quiz (includes Qs from Friday)
Day 5
- 07h45-08h15 Breakfast
- 08h30-09h30 Lecture: Dynamics of vector-borne pathogens (Zinhle, Main Hall)
- 09h30-10h30 Group Work: Final Group Work (Group Breakouts)
- submit slides to Zinhle by 10h30
- 10h30-11h00 Coffee
- 11h00-13h00 Group Work: Practice presentations and feedback (all, Main Hall)
- Aim for: 6 minutes, 3-4 minutes for questions, 3-4 minutes for feedback; max 15 minutes
- Groups: 11h00-11h15 4, 11h15-11h30 1, 11h30-11h45 3, 11h45-12h00 2, 12h00-12h15 5 (with 45 minute buffer for overruns)
- 13h00-14h00 Lunch
- 14h00-15h00 Group Work: Revisions (Group Breakouts)
- 15h00-15h30 Discussion: Review / Preview (Main Hall)
- 15h30-16h00 Free - take a walk!
- 16h00-18h00 Group Work: Optional: re-present + re-feedback. Optional: poster feedback. (Main Hall)