Outreach and Workshops
Since 2017 I have been engaged in "mobile training clinic" where we run training workshops in ecology, epidemiology and dynamical system analysis. With seed funds from Centre International en Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA) through the African Mathematical Union we have visited Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal. We are already planning our visit to another African country in summer of 2024 or 2025.
Want to support the mobile training clinic email me at fbagusto@gmail.com
Ghana School of Mathematical Modeling: Where Ecology and infectious diseases intersect (GSMM2023)
The host institution: Department of Mathematics, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Targeted students: Master students and early PhD students.
Date: 16-30 August 2023
Teresa MacDonald (KU PI) and Folashade Agusto (Project advisory board member).
"Escape rooms are a popular new immersive game format in which a team is “locked” in a room and challenged to solve a series of narrative-embedded puzzles encoded in the room’s artifacts in order to “escape” within a set period of time. The UC Museum of Paleontology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, California Academy of Sciences, and Berkeley Public Library are developing and evaluating an educational game based on the escape room model. STEM Escape is funded by the National Institute of Health’s Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), which supports innovative educational projects that share health and biomedical science, train the next generation of scientists, and enhance the diversity of the scientific workforce."
Download our Plant on a Rampage comic/activity book in English or Spanish (ages 8-14)
KU Natural History Museum news at 13 WBIW.
Nigeria training school in ecology & epidemic modeling, 2021
Topic: CIMPA-Senegal research school on insight from mathematical modeling into problems in conservation, ecology, and epidemiology
Meeting dates: May 14-31, 2018
Location: Department of Mathematics, Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar Senegal.
Organizers:
Folashade Agusto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, USA.
Benito Chen Charpentier, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington Texas, USA.
Mountaga Lam, Department of Mathematics, Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar Senegal.
Maria Leite, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. mcleite@mail.usf.edu
Website: http://ema2018.ucad.sn/
Folashade Agusto during the training session in Senegal teaching epidemic modeling from scratch.
Topic: Challenges in Modeling Complexity of Malaria-Leishmaniasis Co-Infection in Resource-Limited Regions
Meeting dates: May 26-28, 2015
Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Organizers:
Anuj Mubayi, Mathematical Computational Modeling Science Center and School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State Univ.
Folashade Agusto, Mathematics & Statistics, Austin Peay State Univ., Clarksville, TN
Christopher Kribs, Mathematics, Univ. of Texas, Arlington
Ephantus J. Muturi, Medical Entomology Program, Illinois Natural History Survey, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Niyamat Ali Siddiqui, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Patna-India
Topic: Malaria Modeling and Control Workshop
Meeting dates: June 15-17, 2011
Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Organizers:
Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem (Dept. of Mathematics, Lafayette College, Easton, PA);
Folashade Agusto (NIMBioS, Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville);
Frederick Baliraine (Univ. California, San Francisco, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, San Francisco General Hospital)
Group photo of participants in NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Malaria Modeling and Control