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PUBHLTH 405
Social Epidemiology of Infectious Disease
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Jon Zelner
[email protected]
epibayes.io
How can dynamic models help us better understand the implications of Infectious Fear?
Hands-on activity exploring mechanistic relationships between segregation and infectious disease transmission.
What to expect in our in-class presentation workshop on Monday.
Presenting 10/26: Malaria 🦟, Plague 🐀, MRSA 🦠, Monkeypox 🦠
Presenting 🦇 10/31 🎃: Bacterial STIs 🦠, Pediatric Diarrheal disease 🦠, Polio 💉
Plan on presenting for ~20m including Q&A
If you have slides etc. please send to me ahead of time so I can load up on 🖥️.
“Pandemic preparedness is a continuous process of planning, exercising, revising and translating into action national and sub-national pandemic preparedness and response plans. A pandemic plan is thus a living document which is reviewed regularly and revised if necessary…based on the lessons learnt from outbreaks or a pandemic, or from a simulation exercise.”
Represent explicit ideas about how transmission systems work.
Define interactons between system components.
Explore the relative contributions of individual, spatial, and social/environmental relationships to population-level risks.
Ask questions about alternative social, political and medical futures.
Ultimately: Let us take a systems perspective on infectious diseases.
What kind of social/structural mechanisms are likely to be important drivers of variation in these risks?
If we built a transmission model based on Infectious Fear, what might it be useful for?
In the present day?
For better understanding history?
On your own: What are the key components of the epidemiological system described in Infectious Fear? (5m)
In groups of 3-4: Compare the components you defined and diagram out your representation of that system, drawing on the ideas in the Acevedo-Garcia et al. paper (10m)
Pair up with another group, compare your diagrams and discuss who - if anyone - might find a model like this useful. (10m)
05:00
Road-testing a model that integrates social and biological mechanisms behind infection inequity
Proposal presentation workshop!
Come ready to work on your presentations.
Will do an exercise at the beginning to help plan out the rest of your project.
Kelly and I will check in with groups during class and help troubleshoot.