Introduction to Dynamic Modeling of Infectious Diseases (Bellan, MMED 2017)

An introduction to infectious disease transmission modeling. Goals are for audience to be able to:

1. Understand the natural history of infection

2. Explain SIR model formulation

3. Define the basic reproduction number (R0)

4. Calculate vaccinated proportion needed for pathogen elimination

5. Explain the effect of demography on epidemics

Slide sets are available from the ICI3D Figshare Collection at:

FUNDING:

NIH R25GM102149