2016 IDM Annual Symposium

Disease Surveillance

April 18, 2016 – April 20, 2016
Bellevue, WA

The 2016 IDM Annual Symposium covered the modeling tool EMOD, malaria genetics and elimination, several vector-borne diseases, enteric diseases, and HIV.

A man in blue robes walks across a field.

The 2016 IDM Annual Symposium’s first day included workshops on the IDM modeling tool called EMOD (Epidemiological MODeling).

The second day included talks about malaria genetics and parasitology, dengue, chikungunya, Zika and aedes aegypti. HIV cascade of care, surveillance, and typhoid were also presented. There was even a talk about how to optimally place sensor networks for biology research and for measurement and surveillance. The last day included multiple talks on enteric diseases, several on HIV networks and surveillance data, talks towards malaria elimination, and some on vaccine preventable diseases.

Presentations day 1


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