DIMACS Workshop on Modeling of Infectious Diseases with a Focus on Ebola

This is a satellite workshop of the Next Einstein Forum and is coordinated with a Mini-symposium on the same topic on March 5, 2016.

March 6 - 7, 2016
Novotel, Dakar, Senegal

Organizers:: Aboubaker Chedikh Beye, former AIMS-Senegal President, Director of the Doctoral Course in Physics at University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, acbeye at gmail.com; Martial Ndeffo Mbah, Yale University, martial.ndeffo-mbah at yale.edu; Farai Nyabadza, Stellenbosch University, nyabadzaf at sun.ac.za; Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu; Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University, ayakubu at howard.edu

DIMACS thanks the National Science Foundation for support of this event.

White Papers:

Working Group1 White Paper: Key factors Entering Epidemiological Modeling

Panel Members:
Aboubaker Chedikh Beye (University Cheikanta Diop)
Steven Bellan (U.T. Austin)
Nina Fefferman (Rutgers University)
Amira Kebir (Tunis University,Tunisia)
Olusola Kolebaje (Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria)
Angelina Mageni Lutambi (Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania)
Achla Marathe (Virginia Tech)
Joseph Mugisha (Makerere University, Uganda)
Alpha Amadou Sall (Pasteur Institute, Senegal)
Susan Shepler (American University)
Michael Washington (CDC)
Wayne Getz (UC Berkeley)
Additional edits by Fred Roberts (Rutgers University)

Working Group 2: Improving the use of data in models to inform governmental and nongovernmental organizations

Panel Members:
Gameli Adzaho
Folashade Agusto
Abdoul Aziz Fall
Brad Greening
Mountaga Lam
Diene Ngom
Farai Nyabadza*
Juliet Pulliam*
Grzegorz Rempala
Report compiled by JP, based on discussion among all group members
* denotes co-chairs

Working Group 3: Environmental Suitability and Infectious Disease Risk

Authors:
Benjamin A Cash (George Mason Univ.), Sadie J Ryan (U. Florida), Holly Gaff (Old Dominion Univ.)

Panel Members:
Benjamin A Cash (George Mason Univ.)
Sadie J Ryan (U. Florida)
Holly Gaff (Old Dominion Univ.)
Samuel Bowong (U. Douala)
Abba Gumel (Arizona State Univ.)
Theresia Marijani (Stellenbosch Univ.)
Senelani D. Hove-Musekwa (National University of Science and Technology)
Fred Roberts (Rutgers Univ)
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (Howard Univ)

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