Register for the second edition of the MOOC Modeling of Infectious Deseases

We live in a highly interconnected world, where infectious diseases find opportunities to spread globally, like never before in the history of mankind. This raises new challenges in public health for epidemiologists, medical doctors and biologists alike, engaged in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Mathematical and computational models can contribute in this cross-disciplinary, concerted effort. They can make short-term predictions on how epidemics progress, help analyze scenarios on epidemic outcome and inform about the impact of public health interventions.

The digital education office is pleased to invite you to sign up for the third edition of the Modeling of Infectious Deseases MOOC, broadcasted from September 06 to November 15, 2023, led by Romulus Breban and Pierre-Yves Boëlle. In this online MOOC you will learn a basic, yet very general approach to mathematical modeling of infectious disease dynamics.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:
•   Build a model using flow charts
•   Identify how flow charts are translated into ordinary differential equations
• Recognize techniques for deriving formulas for the basic reproduction number, R0, and the effective reproduction number, R
•   Identify the principles of estimating R0 and R from data
•   Recognize the SIR model
•   Identify how public health interventions can be modeled using flow charts

The Institut Pasteur Online Diploma of Infectious Diseases (DNM2IP) :

This MOOC is one of 18 MOOC’s labeled to obtain the Institut Pasteur Online Diploma of Infectious Diseases (DNM2IP), a diploma launched in 2019 and which already has more than 1500 registrants in all continents.

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