Epiwork @ EE²-Facing the Challenge of Infectious Diseases
Friday, January 27th, 2012
The EE² 2nd International Workshop co-organized by the Epiwork and EpiFor project has been a great success!
The Workshop took place in the magnificent venue provided by Courmayeur and its surrounding landscape. More than 30 invited speakers, including some of the most prominent experts in medical epidemiology and infectious disease modeling, gave talks and seminars over three days, from January 18 to January 21, about the key topics of the meeting:
- Large scale stochastic simulations;
- Networks;
- The impact of population structure on transmission;
- Surveillance and policy making;
- Evolution and epidemiology.
Furthermore, the Workshop featured a 3-day long poster session and four Round Tables which gathered the participants in lively discussions about four selected topics of special interest for the community:
- Vaccines;
- Models of livestock of infectious diseases;
- Models and human public health policy;
- Models, data needs, and forecasts.




