Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling

    Background

    This workshop is useful for individuals who are interested in understanding infectious disease spread and control on the population level from a dyna systems and modelling perspective. This workshop will introduce epidemiological and mathematical concepts underlying infectious disease modelling.

    2023-24

    Workshop Series

    Content

    • History of Mathematical Modelling (w.r.t Infectious Disease)
    • Different Modelling Approaches
    • Compartmental Models
    • Interacting Population Model (SIR)
    • Mortality Due to Infection/Disease
    • Fatal Infections (SI Models)
    • Infection/Disease without Immunity (SIS model)
    • Formulating Models for different diseases such as Bacterial, Vector-borne, carrier
      dependent etc.
    • Simulating SIR model in Excel
    • Stimulating compartmental model in R (if participants are aware of programming in R)

    Course Fee

    Indian Participant:
    10000 INR per participant
    International Participant:
    20000 INR per participant

    Course Coordinator

    Dr. Surabhi Pandey
    Associate Professor
    E‐mail: surabhi.pandey@phfi.org