COVID-19 MODELLING WEBINAR SERIES
Webinar 01: 13 May 2020
Real-time prediction of COVID-19 cases and deaths at National and Provincial level (presenters Tarylee Reddy and Ishen Seocharan)
Bayesian Joinpoint Growth Modelling for Coronavirus in South Africa: A data driven approach (presenter Samuel Manda)
Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis of COVID-19 in South Africa: Descriptive, Predictive and Hotspot Analysis (presenters Nada Abdelatif, Ishen Seocharan and Natashia Morris)
World Effectiveness of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Predictions for South Africa (presenter Bruce Mellado)
Algorithm for Including Seasonality Effects in COVID-19 Infection Rates and its Application to the Approaching Winter in South Africa (presenter Franscois Engelbrecht)
Conceptual Framework: Spatial Model for COVID-19 and COVID-19 Spatial Model (presenter Zaid Kimmie)
Webinar 02: 20 May 2020
COVID-19: Geo-Spatial Optimisation of Healthcare Resource Allocation (presenter Jason Gaskell)
COVIZ: Platform for Visualising COVID-19 Models including Lockdown Scenario Analysis (Ashley Gritzman) [presentation not for distribution]
The COVID-19 Data Conundrum - Why open should be default (Vukosi Marivariate)
Webinar 03: 27 May 2020
Risk adjusted known non-pharamceutical interventions in South Africa (presenter Finn Stevenson)
Ongoing development of the Actuarial Society Covid19 model, lessons learned and unanswered questions (presenter Barry Childs)
Vodacom Mobility Data for COVID19 Modelling (presenter Schalk Heunis)
Webinar 04: 03 June 2020
Creating a set of COVID-19 vulnerability indicators and methodology (presenter Alize le Roux)
SABCoM: A Bottom-Up Spatial COVID-19 Model and Demonstration of Contact Tracing Tool (presenter Co-Pierre Georg )
A Bayesian calculation of latent infections (presenter Jacques Naude)
Webinar 05: 10 June 2020
The known, the unknown and the unknowable: Adaptive Disease Modelling to aid COVID-19 decision making in South Africa (presenter Sheetal Silal)
Systems mapping perspectives of COVID-19 (presenter Mario Marais)
Evaluating temperature and humidity gradients of COVID-19 infection rates with global data (presenter Joshua Choma)
Webinar 06: 17 June 2020
Visualization of the COVID-19 data by an R-Shiny dashboard (presenter Mahdi Salehi)
Never wrong for long: improving the stability of projections from models (presenters Alexander Broadbent & Charis Harley)
Air quality consideration during COVID-19 (presenter Rebecca Garland)
Webinar 07: 24 June 2020
Impact of COVID-19 on the economic activity and correlation with mobility indexes (presenter Dominique Adams)
COVID-19 SMME Scenario (presenter Charl Harding)
Webinar 08: 01 July 2020
The estimation of fatalities due to COVID-19 in South Africa using the data from China (presenter Xifeng Ruan)
COVID-19: ensemble national models and testing the BCG, Blood and Climate as drivers of spread (presenter Bruce Bassett)
Presentation by Bruce Bassett is not yet available
Webinar 09: 08 July 2020
Modelling and predicting Covid-19 in South Africa using observed data (presenter Henri Moolman)
Webinar 10: 15 July 2020
Saving lives during a global pandemic through medical resource optimization (presenters Mark Lambrecht and Sherrine Eid)
Webinar 11: 22 July 2020
Algorithm for including seasonality effects in Covid-19 infection rates and its application to the approaching winter in South Africa (presenters Francois Engelbrecht)
Implementation of hot-spots into overarching epidemiological modelling for the Gauteng Province (presenters Roy Gusinow & Benjamin Lieberman)
Webinar 12: 29 July 2020
Responding to COVID-19 in the Gauteng City-Region: Data insights (presenters Graeme Gotz, Gillian Maree and Alexandra Parker)
Webinar 13: 05 August 2020
Use of Machine Learning and the Google Mobility Indexes to model COVID-19 infection rates (presenter Kgomotso Monnakgotla)
Industry, Modelling and COVID Analytics: a Free State Case Study (presenter Herkulaas Combrink)
Presentation by Herkulaas Combrink not available
Webinar 14: 16 September 2020
Presentation of Economic Analysis: Methods and Results (presenter Finn Stevenson)
Economic Epidemiological Model for SA: Economic Analysis: Data Sources (presenter Dominique Adams)
A compound Dirichlet-Multinomial model for provincial level Covid-19 predictions in South Africa (presenter Alta de Waal)
Webinar 15: 30 September 2020
Webinar 16: 07 October 2020
Introducing Acceleration in Compartmental Models (presenter Benjamin Lieberman)
A Risk Index for the Second Surge (presenter Kgomotso Monnakgotla)
Webinar 17: 14 October 2020
Covid and Economic Recovery in Africa and South Africa (presenter Jakkie Cilliers)
The National Income Dynamics - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS CRAM) (presenter Reza C. Daniels)
Webinar 18: 21 October 2020
A Drive through Simulation Tool for Mass Vaccination during COVID 19 Pandemic (presenter Ali Asgary)
Dynamics of the Covid-19 outbreak in South Africa (presenter Francois Engelbrecht)