活動訊息:敬邀參加4月19日(三)第五場「防疫科學跨域講座」

數學建模在疫情研究中扮演重要角色,您是否有興趣進一步了解?本次講座邀請加拿大麥克馬斯特大學(McMaster University)生物學教授兼臺大公衛學院訪問學者Jonathan Dushoff(黃友森)博士,分享他對傳染病毒傳播模型的觀察,以及傳播模型所帶來的理論和實務問題。現場更邀請臺大公衛學院方啓泰教授擔任與談人,就此議題共同進行深入討論。

講座主題包括傳染病毒的時間分布與世代間隔對疫情蔓延速度與強度的影響,以及COVID-19、犬隻狂犬病及其他病毒疾病在傳染時間估計方面的問題。此外,現場還有精心準備的餐盒等著您參加!

講題:Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases: insights and limitations
講者:Jonathan Dushoff(加拿大麥克馬斯特大學生物學教授暨臺大公衛學院訪問學者)
與談人:方啓泰教授(臺大公衛學院)
日期:2023年4月19日(星期三)
時間:下午3時30分至5時20分
地點:臺大理學院思亮館國際會議廳
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演講大綱:
The spread of epidemics is structured by time distributions, including the now-famous “serial interval” between when an individual experiences symptoms, and when the person that they infect experiences symptoms. This is often used to represent the “generation interval” between when the same two individuals were infected, but these can be importantly different. Defining these time distributions clearly, and describing how they relate to each other, and to key parameters of disease spread, poses interesting theoretical and practical questions.

I will discuss how transmission intervals link the “speed” and “strength” of epidemics, issues in their estimation, and their role in helping monitor changes in the parameters underlying disease, with examples from COVID-19, rabies and other HIV.

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