Pan-InfORM - NCCID - ICID Workshop
Public Health Challenges for Modelling and Infectious Diseases
From “Communities of Practice” to “Communities of Health”
On October 3-4, 2016, Pan-InfORM will hold its fifth bi-annual meeting in Toronto, York University, co-hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases and the International Centre for Infectious Diseases.
Program
First Day | Registration (8:30 – 8:45) | |
08:45–09:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Seyed
Moghadas Joel Kettner |
09:00–09:15 | Introductions, Background and Workshop Objectives | Joel Kettner |
Session: Mathematical Modeling in Public Health Practice | ||
09:15–10:00 | Overview: mathematical modelling in public health; Pan-InfORM and its activities and outcomes; examples of modelling applications and relevance to public health policy and practice | |
10:00–10:30 | How modelling could help address some of the challenges public health and policy makers face; making it work for end-users | Joanne Langley |
10:30–11:00 | Health Break | |
11:00–11:30 | Using modelling in policy development; example of modelling contributions and the challenges policy makers face in use of modelling outcomes | |
11:30–12:00 | Group Discussion | |
12:00–13:00 | Lunch | |
Session: Perspectives | ||
13:00–13:30 | Federal Perspective – development and application of mathematical models for public health analysis and action | |
13:30–14:00 | Perspectives of a public health physician: the potential and real utility of models | |
14:00–14:15 | Discussant | Denise Werker |
14:15–14:45 | Health Break | |
14:45 – 15:30 | Facilitated Group Discussion: Considerations for model developers and model users | |
15:30–16:00 | Wrap Up for the First Day | Joel Kettner |
18:00–20:00 | Networking Dinner | |
Second Day | ||
Session: Muddling through Modelling: Communication, Common Language and Health Equity | ||
9:00–9:30 | Community engagement, bidirectional communications and risks, and the usefulness of common language in multidisciplinary health research. | Michelle Driedger |
9:30–10:30 | Challenges and opportunities for use of modelling in the absence of a common language and well-defined terms used in research | |
10:30–11:00 | Health Break | |
11:00–11:30 | Reflections on the presentations and discussions with respect to health equity and issues of concern to Aboriginal populations | Simon Brascoupé |
11:30–12:00 | General Discussion | |
12:00–13:00 | Lunch | |
Session: Developing a Network and Communities of Practice | ||
13:00–14:00 | Facilitated Group Discussion – Now what? Next steps in the Development of a Sustainable Network and Communities of Practice | |
14:00–14:30 | Health Break | |
14:45 – 15:00 | Respondent | Andre Courriveau |
14:30–16:00 | Final Discussion: Outstanding issues and other topics | |
16:00-16:30 | Workshop Evaluation, Feedback Meeting Adjourns | Joel Kettner |