MG-Report-2022_09_15-Executive-Summar1

…2022 on a fall/winter COVID-19 wave. Outputs were similar for both models. A significant fall/winter wave may occur due to a combination of waning of post-infection and post- vaccination immunity,…

Numerical solution

In stochastic models, Numerical solution refers to events arising from probability at each time point. In compartmental models (whether deterministic or stochastic), Numerical solution indicates differential equations derived from computer…

Reproduction Number

…or the average number of secondary cases arising from a Primary case in a population comprised of both susceptible and non-susceptible individuals (called effective Reproduction Number, R or Rt). Basic…

Infectious Disease Modelling with an Equity Lens-01-09-22

disaggregate modelling community-based modelling stratified modelling heterogeneous modeling Heterogeneous risk Heterogeneous infectious disease models account for differential risks of infection among populations. These differences are dependent on characteristics of the:…

Monali Varia

…with certification in infection control, Monali has had the opportunity to work in public health at various levels of government in communicable disease control and the development of surveillance systems….

Dr. Courtney Heffernan

…transmission in underserved groups, surveillance, monitoring and reporting. She is also a member of the STOP TB Canada’s Steering Committee, and the CDC’s TB Trials Consortium Implementation and Quality Committee….

mod4PH Research Highlights Podcast: Maximizing the impact of limited vaccine supply under different early mpox epidemic conditions

…mathematical modelling. Links mentioned in this episode: MAP https://maphealth.ca/ Sharmistha Mishra https://mishra-lab.ca/ Institute of Medical Science https://ims.utoronto.ca/ The model and scenarios were implemented in R, with code available online: github.com/mishra-lab/mpox-model-compartmental…

OgdenCounterfactualsSummary_ENG_chart_121022

…Aamir Fazil, Julia Clark, Vanessa Gabriele-Rivet, Theresa Tam, Victoria Ng *Per 100,000 population INTERVENTION SCENARIOS The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) used an agent-based model to compare different COVID-19…