2011 Clinic Schedule

From mmed

The schedule below contains links to many different elements of the program, which will be made available through this page. Note that some links will be available only to workshop participants. If a link is red, this means the material is not yet available.

Monday, 30 May

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and welcome (Green, Hargrove, Welte, Pulliam, Mbabazi)
9:00 – 9:30 Lecture: Introductions (all participants) and Motivation for Workshop (Hargrove)
9:30 – 10:30 Lecture: Introduction to Thinking About Data I (Williams)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:10 Introduction to computing at AIMS (Groenewald)
11:10 – 11:45 Lecture: Public Health, Epidemiology, and Models (Scott)
11:45 – 13:00 Lecture: Work with spreadsheets as a group on projector (Williams)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Computer Session: Uganda data in groups of <4. (All mentors)
- 14:00 Computer set-up for visitors with laptops (Groenewald)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 17:00 Computer Session: Uganda/other data in groups of <4. (All mentors)
17:00 – 18:00 Discussion: Uganda data and spreadsheet work (Hargrove)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:30 – 20:00 Social Activity: Ice breakers
20:00 – 21:00 Social Activity: Card games: Bullsh!t and Casino

Tuesday, 31 May

9:00 – 9:45 Lecture: History of Mathematical Disease Modeling and its Use in Public Health (Porco)
- related lecture material (Dushoff's 2010 version)
9:45 – 10:30 Lecture: Introduction to Thinking About Data II (Scott)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Lecture: Formulating Questions in Public Health Research (Delva)
11:45 – 12:15 Exercise: Thinking about research questions (Moderator: Pulliam)
12:15 – 13:00 Discussion: Why fit models to data? (Moderator: Welte)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Student Talks: Talks #1-4. (Moderator: Bellan)
15:00 – 15:15 Reading Group Session: Introduction to reading groups, division into groups, paper assignments, & reading guides (Bellan)
15:15 – 15:30 Prepare posters
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 18:00 Poster session (Large lecture hall)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Computer Session: Wiki, wiki, wiki! Introduction to the wiki (Junior mentors)

Wednesday, 1 June

9:00 – 9:45 Lecture: Introduction to Infectious Disease Data (Pulliam)
9:45 – 10:30 Computer Session: Introduction to R (All mentors)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00 Computer Session: Continue R Tutorials I-III (All mentors); BScH break-out group (Pulliam, Bellan)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Lecture: Variability, Sampling Distributions, and Simulation (Scott)
14:45 – 15:30 Computer Session: Exercises linked with Wed lectures on Variability (All mentors)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 16:40 Real-world Example: Harare Antenatal Clinic HIV data -- collection and open questions (Hargrove)
16:40 – 16:45 Organizational Session: Discuss plans for mentoring sessions, sign-up posted outside the main lecture hall (Moderator: Bellan)
16:45 – 17:00 Lecture Distributed Delay Models of Survival (Boxcar Models) (Moderator: Bellan)
17:00 – 18:00 Student Talks: Talks #5-8 (Moderator: Fannuchi)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Real-world example (optional lecture): Mentor Research Lecture #1 (Porco)

Thursday, 2 June

9:00 – 9:45 Lecture: Study Design and Analysis in Epidemiology I: Where does modeling fit? (Bellan)
9:45 – 10:30 Lecture: Study Design and Analysis in Epidemiology II: RCT's (Porco)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Computer Session: Visualizing infectious disease data in R (All mentors)
12:00 – 13:00 Computer Session (cont'd) & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Discussion: The big picture + Modeling and data issues that have arisen thus far (Moderator: Hargrove)
15:00 – 15:30 Lecture: Introduction to data sets available on the Working Wiki + ground rules for each (Rabies: Dushoff, Trachoma: Porco, HIV (via USAID): Scott, HIV (Harare): Hargrove, Childhood disease data (IIDDA): Dushoff, Livestock viruses: Pulliam); Initial discussion of group projects; Wiki, wiki, wiki!
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 17:00 Student Talks: Talks #9-12 (Moderator: Ameh)
17:00 – 18:00 Reading Group Session: Paper session #1
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:30 – 21:00 Social activity: Drumming

Friday, 3 June

9:00 – 9:45 Lecture: Introduction to data management and cleaning (Pulliam)
9:45 – 10:30 Computer Session: Data management and cleaning (All mentors)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Student Talks: Talks #13-16 (Moderator: Mbabazi)
12:00 – 13:00 Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Philosophy (Dushoff)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Junior Mentor presentations (Moderator: Dushoff)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 17:00 Lecture: Introduction to Likelihood (Bellan)
17:00 – 18:00 Mid-session Feedback (Moderator: Hitchcock)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:30 – 21:00 Social Activity: Movie night (One of the following: Outbreak, The Painted Veil, Blindness, And the Band Played On)

Saturday, 4 June

9:00 – 9:45 Lecture: Likelihood fitting and dynamic models I (Bellan)
9:45 – 10:30 Lecture: Likelihood fitting and dynamic models II (Dushoff)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Computer Session: Maximizing likelihoods in R and comparison to least-squares for different distributions (All mentors)
12:00 – 12:15 Organizational Session: Individual and group goals for second week (Moderator: Pulliam)
12:15 – 14:00 Social Activity: Group lunch at Kalky's
14:00 – Free/working afternoon

Sunday, 5 June

Free day – optional group trip to Kirstenbosch and the Water Front

Monday, 6 June

9:00 – 9:30 Lecture: Doing Science (regroup and remotivate) (Hargrove, Williams)
9:30 – 9:45 Organizational Session: Schedule for the second week (Moderator: Pulliam)
9:45 – 10:30 Organizational Session: Formulation of group projects & further discussion of available data (All mentors)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Work Session: Groups meet for first time and discuss project ideas (All mentors)
12:00 – 13:00 Computer Session: Wiki, wiki, wiki! for group projects (All mentors)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Work Session: Mentors meet with groups (All mentors)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 18:00 Reading Session (all groups): The Williams Paper (Williams)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Real-world example (optional lecture): Mentor Research Lecture #2 (Dushoff)

Tuesday, 7 June

9:00 – 10:30 Computer Session: Catch Up on R Tutorials
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:15 Computer Session: Wiki, wiki, wiki! (Dushoff)
11:15 – 13:00 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Computer Session Catch Up on R Tutorials
14:45 – 15:30 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 17:30 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Real-world example (optional lecture): Mentor Research Lecture #3 (Scott)
20:00 - 22:00 Social Activities: Casino Lesson & Other Card Games

Wednesday, 8 June

9:00 – 9:45 Lecture: Demographic stochasticity (Dushoff)
9:45 – 10:30 Computer Session: Linked with above lecture (All mentors)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Reading Group Session: Paper session #3
14:45 – 15:30 Social Activity: Walk on the beach
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 18:00 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Real-world example (optional lecture): Mentor Research Lecture #4 (Pulliam)

Thursday, 9 June

9:00 – 9:45 Lecture: Introduction to model assessment (Pulliam) and Project Session: Informal updates/progress reports from all participants, further planning as needed
9:45 – 10:30 Work Session (All mentors)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Work Session (All mentors)
14:45 – 15:30 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
- Viral host jump break-out group
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 17:30 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:00 – 20:00 Real-world example (optional lecture): Mentor Research Lecture #5 (Bellan)

Friday, 10 June

9:00 – 10:30 Work Session (All mentors)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00 Work Session & Mentoring Session (All mentors)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Final Presentations: Lab-meeting style progress reports on all group projects (Moderator: Bellan)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 17:00 Feedback Session (Moderator: Hitchcock)
17:00 – 18:00 Organizational Session: Further planning as needed for follow-up work (Moderator: Pulliam, Dushoff)
18:00 – 18:30 Dinner
19:30 – 21:00 Social Activity: Game night

Saturday, 11 June

Clinic officially ends on Friday, but there will be an optional group trip to Cape Point or Mzoli's on Saturday

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