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Venice (Italy), 26-27 May, 2011

This is the final workshop of our project "FluModCont"  which has focussed on developing European pandemic influenza modelling capability over the last 3 years. The workshop aims to encourage productive dialogue between modellers (from universities and public health agencies) and senior public health decision makers - reviewing the 2009 experience of how modelling and analysis informed (or not) decision-making, and what lessons should be learned for the future (both technical and in terms of structuring the relationship and expectations). A key aim will be to compare experiences across the European Union, but not exclusively so - the experience in the US we think is informative, and clearly WHO's role in pandemic response is key. Some of the technical issues we intend to focus on include: what 2009 taught us about influenza transmission; data needs in a pandemic; methods for generating rapid parameter estimates; potential effectiveness and public compliance with control measures. But as important will be sessions on the information requirements of public health decision makers during a pandemic, the interface between policy and modelling, and research/surveillance priorities for the future. 

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Cultural Centre Don Orione Artigianelli
Address: Zattere Dorsoduro, Venice

Website: http://www.donorione-venezia.it/ing/home.htm