Organizing Committee:
Dr. David Fisman (University of Toronto)
Dr. Sivaloganathan (Centre for Mathematical Medicine)
Dr. Jianhong Wu (York/MITACS)
Dr. Amy Greer (Public Health Agency of Canada and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto),
Dr. Chris Bauch (Guelph)

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Directions

Infectious Disease Epidemiology Afficionados (IDEA) Journal Club and seminar series as an activity that will provide the opportunity to link mathematicians, epidemiologists, mathematical modelers, and public health professionals interested in infectious disease dynamics.

Meetings are held once a month on Fridays in the Stewart Library at Fields.

UPCOMING SEMINARS
Friday June 15, 2012 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Fields Institute, Stewart Library	Dr. David Fisman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, U niversity of Toronto You've Got the Wrong Number: fallacies Associated with Number-Needed-to-Vaccinate Calculations
PAST SEMINARS
Friday April 20, 2012 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Fields Institute, Stewart Library	Dr. Rob Deardon, University of Guelph A Bayesian Approach to Dealing with Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Modelling
Friday March 15, 2012	CANCELLED
Friday February 17, 2012 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Fields Institute, Stewart Library	Dr. Victoria Ng, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses (CPHAZ), University of Guelph Zoonotic diseases are diseases that are transmitted between humans and animals Zoonotic diseases account for over half of all communicable diseases causing illness in humans and approximately 75% of new emerging diseases. As limited resources are usually available for the control and prevention of zoonotic diseases, it becomes necessary to prioritize diseases in order to direct resources into those with the greatest needs. While there is general consensus for the need to prioritize zoonotic diseases, there are numerous challenges in the process of prioritization. This talk will present on the use of Conjoint Analysis to overcome the limitations in traditional prioritization methodologies and the results from a study involving over 3,000 participants across Canada and the US.
Friday January 20, 2012	Hana Dobrovolny The Role of Mathematical Modelling in Understanding Influenza Infections
Friday November 18, 2011	Corey Green and Shailee Tanna (Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch) Opportunities and challenges: Communicable disease surveillance for First Nations peoples living on reserves in Ontario
Friday October 21, 2011	Dr. David Fisman, University of Toronto Weather driven models for West Nile virus risk assessment and forecasting
Friday September 16, 2011	Dr. Huaiping Zhu, York University Weather driven models for West Nile virus risk assessment and forecasting