National Disease Modelling Consortium
Feb 5 - 8, 2024
Measles is a highly contagious acute viral respiratory disease that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality, especially among young children. This workshop will feature presentations by domain experts from India, followed by hands-on sessions facilitated by trainers from the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (VIMC). Measles modelling utilises mathematical and statistical techniques to analyse virus patterns in a population, understand disease dynamics, identify transmission factors, and evaluate intervention effectiveness. This workshop will provide an understanding of the history and current measles and rubella-specific dynamics, discuss model fitting approaches and challenges, and provide a comparison of models.
Objectives:
To give participants a broad understanding of the fields of measles and rubella modelling, including information on the key technical and policy challenges as well as questions that have been answered, are currently under consideration, and those yet to be addressed
To characterize and analyse common data sources for measles and rubella modelling
To train individuals to use two popular models for measles and rubella