2023 IDM Annual Symposium

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Frontiers in Modeling & Data Science for Global Health

May 22, 2023 – May 24, 2023
Seattle, WA

Scientist collects river water for testing.

The 2023 IDM Annual Symposium was held May 22-24, 2023 in Seattle at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Conference Center. This was our first three-day Symposium since the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme was Frontiers in Modeling & Data Science for Global Health and it shaped up to be an exciting three days! We had a plenary panel on Large Language Models as they relate to global health and many other exciting presentations on measles, human resources for health (HRH), maternal and newborn health, development of modeling expertise in Africa, TB, malaria, and more.

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Presentations day 1

Opening plenary

Data ethics and AI

Presentations day 2

Opening plenary

Modeling inequity from local to global levels

Enterics and the environment

COVID-19: methodologies and healthcare policy

Coming up short: delivering on promises of primary healthcare systems

Beyond big pharma: big ideas to reach elimination in TB

Polio

COVID-19: understanding epidemics & addressing issues in equity

Quantifying the ‘softer side’ of effective health systems

Software demonstrations

U5 mortality

Model calibration

Measles

Applied math and software

Presentations day 3

Development of modeling centers in Africa

Maternal, neonatal, and child health

Modeling HIV prevention policies

Introducing the Africa CDC continental framework for surveillance systems

Malaria modeling for sub-national tailoring

Family planning and fertility

Gender disparities & comorbidities in HIV infection

Verbal autopsy IT tools

Malaria modeling for next generation interventions

Family planning and fertility 2

Screening and assessment to improve intervention impact

VA data collection and epidemiology of COD

Arboviruses and vector-borne diseases

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