Dominic Clemence, North Carolina AT&T State University, clemence@ncat.edu

Wayne Getz, UC Berkeley, getz@nature.berkeley.edu

Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca

John Hargrove, SACEMA Director, jhargrove@sun.ac.za

Edward Lungu, University of Botswana, lunguem@noka.ub.bw

Fred Roberts, DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

This workshop is jointly organized with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS),
South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

This workshop is jointly sponsored by:

• African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund
• DIMACS
• US National Science Foundation
• South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA).
• School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, WITS University
• WITS AIDS Research Initiative

Presentation Slides:

• Gerardo Chowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  SARS Outbreaks in Ontario, Hong Kong and Singapore

• Frances M Cowan, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London
  Does Maternal HSV-2 Infection Increase Risk of
  Intra-Partum Transmission of HIV-1?

• J.C.A. Davies, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
  The USA Response to the AIDS Epidemic

• Diana Dickinson, Botswana
  Current State of Infectious Diseases in Southern Africa

• Derek A.T. Cummings, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Spatial Coherence and Association of Temperature, Rainfall and
  the Incidence of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Thailand

  Models of New Vaccines for Measles

• Elamin H. Elbasha, Merck Research Laboratories, USA
  A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Alternative Human
  Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Strategies

• Nina H. Fefferman, Tufts University and DIMACS
  Preparing Societal Infrastructure Against Disease-Related Workforce Depletion

• Claire Geoghegan, University of Pretoria and Wayne Getz, UC Berkeley
  Evaluating the Potential Burden of Zoonotic Mycobacteria in Africa:
  Can Modelling Disease in Wildlife Populations Help?

• Swati Gupta, Merck Research Laboratories
  Estimating the Benefit of an HIV-1 Vaccine
  which Reduces Viral Load Set Point

• John Hargrove, SACEMA
  DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA)
  What can SACEMA do for Africa?

• David Hill, Stanford University
  The Potential Role of Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
  Infection in Vertical HIV Transmission

• Senelani Dorothy Hove-Musekwa, Department of Applied Mathematics, Nust-Byo, Zimbabwe
  The Role of Mathematical Modelling in Epidemiology with
  Particular Reference to HIV/AIDS

• Philip Johnson and Wayne Getz, UC Berkeley
  Evaluating the Predictive Power of R0 in Wildlife Populations:
  Dueling Timescales of Host Movement and Disease Dynamics

• Ramanan Laxminarayan, Resources for the Future, Washington DC
  Insights from Economic-Epidemiology

• E. Lungu and E. Chigidi, University of Botswana
  HIV and HIV Mutants

• Asamoah Nkwanta, Morgan State University
  Predicting RNA Secondary Structures: A Lattice Walk
  Approach to Modeling Sequences Within the HIV-1 RNA Structure

• Miriam Nuno, Harvard School of Public Health
  Assessing Basic Control Measures, Antivirals,
  and Vaccine in Curtailing Pandemic Influenza:
  Scenarios for the US, UK and South Africa

• Fred Roberts, DIMACS
  New Challenges for Modelers of Infectious Diseases of Africa

• Michael L Washington and Martin I Meltzer, CDC
  Optimize What? Issues in Optimizing Public Health
  Resources through Mathematical Modeling

  Alex Welte, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Wits
  So Much to Model So Little Time
  Facing the Challenge of Infectious Disease in Africa

  Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
  Epidemics in Strongly Fluctuating Populations

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