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Workshop: Lesson learned from swine flu for behavioural and social scientists: how should we study the next pandemic?
Monday 12th April 2010, Wellcome Trust Euston Road, London.
A one-day workshop organized by the infectious Disease Network with support from the Health Protection Agency, University College London, and Kings College London. The unprecedented national emergency respionse to the Swine Flu (A/H1N1) pandemic during 2009 was accompanied by a substantial research effort to understand how the outbreak affected the British population and to test ways of reducing this impact. The challenges of conducting this research were considerable, but the results brought immediate public health benefits as well as advances in our understanding of human behaviour.
This workshop will bring together researchers from different disciplines within the social sciences in order to identify ways that we could do better in the next pandemic.
What key issues should behavioural and social scientists explore the next time around? How could researchers from different disciplines work together more effectively? How should funding be made available? How do you obtain ethics approval in a hurry?
This one-day workshop wil explore all of these topics and allow participants the chance to share their experiences and suggest ways for improvement. The workshop will be of relevance to a multi-disciplinary audience, but especially researchers from any behavioural or social science discipline with an interest in this area.
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A (H1N1) pandemic: an exaggeration?
Heated debate at a public hearing of the Committee on Social, Health and Family Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg on Tuesday 26 January 2010, intitulated "The handling of the H1N1 pandemic: more transparency needed?".
See an abstract of the debate here: link
Epiwork - Workshop - Frontiers in the computational modelling of disease spreading
The Workshop is part of the International Conference of Computational Sciences ICCS2010 that this year will celebrate its 10th anniversary in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), May 31 - June 2, 2010. The Workshop will bring together experts in the field of computational epidemiology to compare and evaluate the recent advances reached with the use of sophisticate data-driven modeling, and assess their role in informing public health decisions for preparedness planning and during epidemic emergencies.
Computational epidemiology is emerging as a new paradigm in the fight against infectious diseases. Next to the terrific developments in epidemiological, laboratory, immunological, genetic, and medical research, computational sciences are providing additional tools to the understanding of the disease dynamics at the population level.
Call for papers
Papers for the Workshop ‘Frontiers in the computational modeling of disease spreading’ @ ICCS 2010 should be submitted through the ICCS2010 submission system, by selecting the appropriate workshop from the list. For more details, please visit the website:
http://www.iccs-meeting.org/
Health Calls: FP7 Influenza 2010
Call title: Influenza 2010
Identifier: FP7-INFLUENZA-2010
Publication Date: 30 July 2009
Budget: € 18 000 000
Deadline: 29 October 2009 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
Themes: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology; Health
For more details see http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.CooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=269