The 2023 IDM Annual Symposium will be held May 22-24 in Seattle at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Conference Center. This will be our first three-day Symposium since the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme of this year is Frontiers in Modeling & Data Science for Global Health and it’s shaping up to be an exciting three days! We will have 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. While space is limited for in-person attendance, all are welcome to join virtually and virtual registration will remain open until the symposium is held.
Monday, May 22, 2023
| 7:30AM – 9:30 AM | REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST |
| 9:30am – 9:45am | OPENING REMARKS |
| 9:45am – 10:45am | OPENING PLENARY PANEL: Data ethics & AI Join scholars working at the leading edge of the ethical, environmental, social, and political dimensions of data and AI for a discussion on navigating an AI future through the lens of equity. |
| 11:00am – 12:15pm | SESSION 1: Interactive session on data ethics & AI This 75-minute interactive session will focus on introducing several popular AI tools, trying them in real-time, and discussing the promise and challenges of applying these AI tools in global health contexts. For this session, we will be highlighting advances in AI image generation using MidJourney, language and chat using ChatGPT, and software programming support using CoPilot and ChatGPT. |
| 12:15pm – 1:30pm | LUNCH |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm | SESSION 2: Applied perspectives on AI & large language models Invited speakers; session explores the history, current challenges, and future directions of AI: – Generative AI models: where they came from and where are they going? – AI sustainability, ethics, and transparency, a deep dive into the training corpus. – AI frontiers in healthcare, emerging topics and relevance for low- and middle-income countries. |
| 3:15pm – 5:00pm | POSTER SESSION |
| 5:00pm – 6:00pm | RECEPTION AND HAPPY HOUR |
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
| 7:15AM – 8:15AM | BREAKFAST |
| 8:15am – 8:45am | OPENING PLENARY: Incorporating inequity aversion into disease modeling |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | SESSION 1A: Modeling infection inequity from local to global levels SESSION 1B: Enterics and the environment SESSION 1C: COVID-19: Methodologies and healthcare policy SESSION 1D: Coming up short: Delivering on the promises of primary healthcare systems SESSION 1E: Invited software demonstrations |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | SESSION 2A: Beyond pharma: Big ideas to reach elimination in TB and other diseases SESSION 2B: Polio SESSION 2C: COVID-19: understanding epidemics and addressing issues in equity SESSION 2D: Quantifying the ‘softer side’ of effective health systems: is it a bad idea: SESSION 2E: Software demonstrations |
| 12:30pm – 1:45pm | LUNCH Special lunch & learn session: From modeled evidence to policy decision-making: Key takeaways from four countries |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm | SESSION 3A: Beyond pharma 2: Turning nutrition and determinants into interventions for TB SESSION 3B: Under 5 mortality SESSION 3C: Model calibration SESSION 3D: Measles SESSION 3E: Applied math & software |
| 3:30pm – 4:30pm | KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
| 5:15pm – 6:30pm | RECEPTION: At the Seattle Aquarium pier |
| 6:30PM – 9:30PM | DINNER AT THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM |
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
| 7:00AM – 8:00AM | BREAKFAST |
| 8:00am – 9:00am | OPENING SESSION: Development of modeling centers in Africa |
| 9:15am – 10:45am | SESSION 1A: Building and strengthening the MNCH evidence base SESSION 1B: Modeling HIV prevention policies SESSION 1C: Introducing the Africa CDC continental framework for strengthening mortality surveillance systems: Current and future agendas SESSION 1D: Malaria modeling for sub-national tailoring DEMO SESSION: Introduction to PACE-HRH: A software package for estimating human resource requirements |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | SESSION 2A: Exploring vulnerability and family planning SESSION 2B: Gender disparities & comorbidities in HIV infection SESSION 2C: Verbal autopsy IT tools: Software developers and modelers come together to accelerate certification of cause of death in LMICs SESSION 2D: Malaria modeling for next generation interventions |
| 12:30pm – 1:45pm | LUNCH |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm | SESSION 3A: New perspectives on family planning metrics & measurement SESSION 3B: Neglected tropical diseases: Screening & assessment to improve intervention impact SESSION 3C: Verbal autopsy data collection and epidemiology of certified causes of death in SSA and South Asia SESSION 3D: Arboviruses and vector-borne diseases |
| 3:30pm – 5:00pm | CLOSING PANEL: Gender intentional research & data |
| 5:15pm – 5:45pm | CLOSING REMARKS |