Calendar

Friday September 18th 2009, 9:00 – 17:00

Computer-generated outbreak signals:

A one day workshop on algorithms and epidemiological work

Scope

This workshop aims at bringing together developers of outbreak detection algorithms and epidemiologists handling the computer-generated signals. During the day, we will listen to presentations and discuss methods and implementations of automated outbreak detection in public health disease surveillance.

Venue

Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm. Kräftriket, Roslagsvägen 101, house 5, room 14.

Registration

Conference attendance is free of charge but pre-registration is required. Please register by sending an e-mail to outbreak-workshop@s-gem.se , no later than September 4th.

Program

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome. Anette Hulth, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden

9:15 – 10:00 Collecting analyzable surveillance data for Europe. Per Rolfhamre, European Centre for Disease Control, Sweden

10:00 – 10:45 CASE: Computer Assisted Search for Epidemics. Maria Grünewald, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee

11:15 – 12:00 Generating outbreak signals with R – a surveillance perspective. Michael Höhle, University of Munich, Germany

12:00 – 12:45 Robust outbreak surveillance. Marianne Frisén, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 – 14:30 Farrington’s algorithm in daily epidemiological work. Wilfred van Pelt, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, the Netherlands

14:30 – 15:15 A space-time permutation scan statistic for the early detection of disease outbreaks. Martin Kulldorff, Harvard University and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, USA

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee

15:45 – 16:30 Event based surveillance on the European level. Francisco G. Santos O’Connor, European Centre for Disease Control, Sweden

16:30 – 16:45 Closing. Annika Linde, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden

ORGANISATION

The workshop is arranged by the Stockholm Group for Epidemic Modelling (S-gem) in collaboration with the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, with financial support from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research.

Please send any questions to outbreak-workshop@s-gem.se or contact Anette Hulth (anette.hulth@s-gem.se) directly.