[AISWorld] Agent Based Modelling for Public Health (ABMfPH) Speaker Series

[mahdi at alumni.albany.edu]

Dear Colleagues,

 

“Agent Based Modelling for Public Health (ABMfPH) Speaker Series” is a new bi-weekly seminar in collaboration of the CIFAL York, a part of UNITAR’s global network of training centers, as well as the FIELDS Institute’s Mathematics for Public Health program. The series focuses on the wide application of ABM in modelling disease transmission at various scales (local, regional, national), and settings (i.e., public transit, mass gathering, hospitals, long term care facilities), assessment of public health measures, vaccine uptake, individuals’ behavior towards public health measures, public health information dissemination and propagation, public health logistics, etc. Simultaneously, hardware and software technologies that enable development and use of ABM have been advancing and thus helping the development of more detailed ABM with large agent population even more possible. Use of ABM in public health is not free of its challenges theoretical, technical, data, validity, and calibration challenges.

 

The main goals of the ABMfPH speaker series are:

    ▪ Knowledge sharing among the ABM modeling community and public health experts.

    ▪ Learning about advances in ABM in public health.

    ▪ Exchanging best practices and lessons learned in development and use of ABM in public health during the COVID-19 era.

    ▪ Building and strengthening the ABM modeling and user networks

 

The series are planned to be held every other Friday, 12:00 PM – 13:00 PM (EST) virtually on Zoom (presentation and Q&A).

For more information and registration, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/cifal/abmfph

 

Please mark your calendars for the following fixed dates and times:

    ▪ February 25th: Dr. Anna Bershteyn, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

    ▪     March 11th: Dr. Nathanial Osgood, University of Saskatchewan

    ▪     March 25th: Dr. Kurt Kreuger, Kreuger Consulting

    ▪       April    8th: Dr. Victoria Ng, Public Health Agency of Canada

    ▪       April 22nd: Dr. Elizabeth Hunter, Technological University Dublin

    ▪        May   6th: Dr. Ellen Rafferty, University of Alberta

    ▪        May 20th: Dr. Melissa Tracy, Albany School of Public Health, State University of New York (SUNY)

 

Target audience for the series are:

    ▪ Mathematics for Public Health Network researchers 

    ▪ Public health professionals and decision makers interested in and using ABM 

    ▪ Graduate and undergraduate students 

    ▪ Agent based modeling community interested in public health 

 

Please also feel free to volunteer to present your work, or to suggest other presenters that are working on the same area.

 

 

Thank you!

 

Mahdi M. Najafabadi