Research Symposium
ANNUAL DISEASE MODELING SYMPOSIUM
The research and modeling team at IDM is focused on providing support to disease eradication programs and other global health endeavors through a variety of modeling and statistical approaches. We build mechanistic agent-based models in order to understand model assumptions and input data, examine the effects of population-level and within-host phenomena, and stimulate the impact of combined interventions, especially for all phases of an eradication effort.
If you are interested in sponsoring a session, please email: [email protected]
The IDM Fall 2022 Symposium will be held on Friday, October 28th from 8am to 5pm PST in Seattle, WA. Our program includes a mixture of scheduled sessions, lightning talks, and tool demos!
Our keynote will be delivered by Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, Executive Director of APHRC ( https://aphrc.org/person/catherine-kyobutungi/)
To register for virtual or in-person attendance or contact the IDM team with questions, please email [email protected].
Symposium Agenda
8:00 - 8:10 AM
opening remarks
8:10 - 10:05 AM
SESSION 1: Environmental Surveillance: Validation, Costing and Survey Design
SESSION 2: Cross-cutting Perspectives on the Role of Nutrition in Vulnerability
lightning talks
10:20 - 12:00 PM
SESSION 3: Exploring Questions of Zero Dose, Underimmunization, and Vaccine Coverage
SESSION 4: Perspectives on Genomic Surveillance in the Context of Global Health
lightning talks
12:00 - 1:15 PM
lunch
1:15 - 2:45 PM
DEMO in 3 Parts: Flexibility of StarSim Platform
3:00 - 4:00 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION
Data Collection & Analysis in Global Health
4:15 - 5:00 PM
KEYNOTE
Katherine Kyobutungi, APHRC
5:00 - 5:15 PM
closing remarks;
reception to follow in the Discovery Center
With the continued spread of COVID during the pandemic, we made the difficult decision to cancel the planned 2021 Symposium until we feel it is safer to gather in person for scientific discussion and collaboration.
In light of the continued spread of COVID cases worldwide, we have made the difficult decision to not host an alternative IDM Modeling Symposium in 2020. Over the past several weeks, we have actively discussed and explored possible approaches including a virtual symposium but feel that the structure and program format would not provide the opportunity for scientific discussion and collaboration. We remain dedicated to supporting these values and believe that the Symposium’s greatest strength lies within the connections that are created as a result of this event. As many organizations, businesses and schools are shifting to remote-only work environments and suspending business travel, we will continue to follow these practices to do our part to slow the transmission and protect all communities.
We will continue to monitor and evaluate the pandemic and follow public health policies against our planned 2021 April Symposium. It is our hope that the situation will permit an in-person conference and that you will be able to attend.

7TH ANNUAL DISEASE MODELING SYMPOSIUM
April 15-17, 2019
Accelerating calibrations and analysis using distributed computing
Advances in statistics and mathematics for the study of infectious disease
Data-driven operations
General Session 1: Genetics
Mapping MNCH trends
Measles
Tuberculosis
Azythromycin
General session 2: Modeling
Health economics
Modeling resistance
Overview of IDM modeling tools
Applications of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in health and development
Epidemiology
General session 3: Informing policy
HIV transmission in the era of test and treat
INFORM
Linking environmental factors to infectious disease and mortality patterns
Understanding genomic surveillance data and implications for malaria elimination
Utilizing GPU computational resources for agent-based models

6TH ANNUAL DISEASE MODELING SYMPOSIUM
April 16-18, 2018
General session 1: software tools
General session 2: models 1
HIV population level
Influenza and pandemics
Introduction to agent-based modeling
Keynote
Malaria in low-transmission settings
Software best practices
Evolutionary epidemiology
General session 3
General session 4
HIV & TB within host
Access, treatment, and all-cause mortality
General session 5; Epi databases, tool-sets, estimation
Small area estimation in public health and demography
5TH ANNUAL DISEASE MODELING SYMPOSIUM
April 18-20, 2017
Risk mapper tool and value of information
Calibration of individual-based models
Emerging researchers
General session 1
General session 2
Works-in-progress
Enteric disease
General session 3
Malaria
Measles 1
Pneumonia 2
Software Tutorial
Advances in applied math for infectious diseases
Dengue
General session 4
General session 5
4TH ANNUAL DISEASE MODELING SYMPOSIUM
April 18- 20, 2016