19 February 2013

Post date: Feb 19, 2013 4:24:44 PM

Visiting speaker Nic Geard described his work on a model of disease transmission, vaccination, and household structure. Nic works at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. His agent-based model extends traditional epidemiological methods to look at the effects of family and community structure on the transmission of pertussis (whooping cough), a transmissible disease that has seen a resurgence in recent decades.