The Statistical and Mathematical Analysis of Infectious Disease Transmission and Control

Date: 
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Speaker: 
Ira Longini, PhD, Dennis Chao, PhD, Yang Yang, PhD, and Eben Kenah, ScD
Time and location: 
12 PM- 1:30 PM, HPNP G312

Program:


1.      Introduction:  Ira Longini


2.      Modeling vaccination strategies for epidemic cholera in Haiti with implications for the developing world:  Dennis Chao


3.      Extension of the chain binomial model for infectious disease transmission to include variable prior immunity and pathogenicity:  Yang Yang


4.      Nonparametric survival analysis of epidemic data:  Eben Kenah