The lectures in the didactic module will cover the topics in the book ‘Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals’ by Matt J. Keeling & Pejman Rohani and supplement this material with additional examples from the published literature. Lectures introducing any necessary mathematics (for example understanding of ode’s, and stochastic versus deterministic processes) and programming skills (using the R software) will also be provided. In additional to the lectures there will be sessions devoted to exercises during which the students will have the opportunity to run simulations of models discussed in the lectures. Discussion groups using examples from published papers will be used to expose the students to recent developments and applications of epidemiological models.
The course will be run as a 6 week E-learning course with a 1 week didactic module at LIFE in Copenhagen (in the second week). The first week (prior to the primary course week) will be devoted to learning basic R programming. After the didactic module the primary focus is on individual projects and additional E-learning based discussion of applied models.
