This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by Applied Machine Learning Days. Learn more and register here. A fee is required to attend. During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health advice, stay-at-home orders, and self-imposed limitations have dramatically changed human behaviors on a global scale. For the first time in an epidemic, such an unprecedented natural experiment has been sensed through digital platforms in real-time. Digital traces such as mobile…

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This event will feature Yonatan Grad and be hosted by Academic Medical Education. Learn more here. Register here. Conference description: "The COVID-19 Vaccine Development & Implementation Workshop aims to increase knowledge and facilitate discussion on the many aspects of vaccine development and rollout on a background of a firm understanding of pathogenesis and natural infection. Our goal is to address the many scientific, social, and policy challenges in the totality…

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This event will feature Caroline Buckee and be hosted by Nature, Sunbelt, and NetSci Conference. Learn more about the event here. Register here. Buckee's session will be preceded by presentations by Duncan Watts, Jake Hofman, David Lazer, Claudia Wagner, and Mirta Galesic. Social and cultural forces shape almost every aspect of infectious disease transmission in human populations, as well as our ability to measure, understand, and respond to epidemics. For directly…

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