Infectious Disease Workshop

16^th March 2006

Health Canada

Ottawa, ON, K1A 0K9

Brooke Claxton Building 400A

Day 1

0930 Zack Jacobson Welcome

0940 Round robin Introductions

1000 Zack Jacobson Tools for outbreak management – workshop overview

1020 Marcus Lem Infectious disease – clinical aspects

1040 Coffee Break

1100 Steve Gribble & Chantal Hicks Agent-based SARS model

1120 Igor Zverev Repeated Stochastic simulations of SARS outbreaks

1140 Ben Houston Epidemic simulation with social network visualization

1200 Break

1230 Working lunch and Discussion

1330 Margaret Varga Infectious disease intervention management

1350 Bill Wright Geographic and network mapping an STD outbreak

1410 Dragos Calitoiu Parameters of Spread & Superspread networks

1430 Martin Taylor A Framework for Network Visualisation

1500 Break

1515 Discussion over coffee

1630 Phyllis Colvin Meeting appreciation/evaluation

1700 Zack Jacobson Thanks & Farewell

Edited by Dr. Margaret Varga, QinetiQ, U.K.