The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard School of Public Health is at the forefront of research, informing public policy, outreach and education in the field of infectious disease modeling.


Affiliations

The Models of Infections Disease Agents Study (MIDAS)

As a collaborative network of scientists, MIDAS leads in researching the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical models to understand infectious disease dynamics and prepare the nation to plan for, detect, and respond to infectious diseases.

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)  

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) established the Modeling of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS), to investigate novel computational and mathematical models of existing and emerging infectious diseases.


















Upcoming Events

Jun
17

A Practical Short Course on Infectious Disease Modeling

The course being offered in Bangkok, Thailand.
Jun. 17 - 19, 2012
The Short Course is now full and closed for registration.Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases has been extensively used to inform policymaking of epidemic control in recent decades (e.g. SARS, foot...
Jun
20

Mathematical Modelling Workshop: Within and Between-Host Dynamics of Drug-Resistant Pathogens

The course is being held in Bangkok, Thailand.
Jun. 20, 2012, 8:30am - Jun. 21, 2012, 5:00pm
Register for the Mathematical Modelling WorkshopAntimicrobial resistance is one of the critical health challenges of the 21st century, with potentially far-reaching implications for the control of malaria,...

Latest News

The Center welcomes Sarah Garcia Ferrero

May 14, 2012
CCDD welcomes visitor Sara Garcia Ferrero, a PhD student from the Spanish National Research Council, who will...

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Jacobs!!

March 30, 2012
Jessica Jacobs successfully defended her dissertation titled, "Influenza and Secondary Bacterial Pathogens:...

Videos can now be viewed of the 2011 Symposium

February 16, 2012
2nd Annual Symposium a Success

Publications

Improving the Evidence Base for Decision Making During a Pandemic: The Example of 2009 Influenza A/H1N1

Lipsitch M, Finelli L, Heffernan RT, Leung GM, Redd SM
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science  2011 Jun.

Detecting novel associations in large data sets

Reshef DN, Reshef YA, Finucane HK, Grossman SR, McVean G, Turnbaugh PJ, Lander ES, Mitzenmacher M, Sabeti PC.
Science  2011 Dec.

Genomic epidemiology of the Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreaks in Europe, 2011

Grad Y, Lipsitch M, Feldgarden M, Arachchi HM, Cerqueira GC, FitzGerald M, Godfrey P, Haas BJ, Murphy C, Russ C, Sykes S, Walker BJ, Wortman JR, Young S, Zeng Q, Abouelleil A, Bochicchio J, Chauvin S, DeSmet T, Gujja S, McCowan C, Montmayeur A, Steelman S, Frimodt-Moller J, Petersen AM, Struve C, Krogfelt KA, Bingen E, Weill FX, Lander ES, Nusbaum C, Birren BW, Hung DT, Hanage WP.
PNAS  2012 Feb.

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