Mathematical Modeling Journal Club

January – May, 2024 Session

Please join us on the third Wednesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time for our monthly CCDD Mathematical Modeling Journal Club.

Upcoming Journal Clubs for Spring 2024:

Date Presenter Article Recording
01/17/2024 Sungmok Jung Gozzi et al. 2022, Estimating the impact of COVID-19 vaccine inequities: a modeling study. Sung-mok presents Gozzi et al.
02/21/2024 Victor N Haimbala Cilloni et al. 2020, Trade-offs between cost and accuracy in active case finding for tuberculosis: A dynamic modelling analysis. Victor Haimbala presents Cilloni et al.
03/20/2024 Sharon Greene Varma et al. 2021, 5 Skills Public Health Officials Need to Combat the Next Pandemic. TBA
04/17/2024 George Shirreff TBA  TBA
05/15/2024 TBA TBA TBA

Zoom Info: See email.

 

Background
The journal club will guide participants through a review of articles in order to learn more about mathematical modeling approaches, understand how authors reached their conclusions, and determine the study’s relevance in informing practice and research. The journal club aims to assess intermediate and advanced infectious disease modeling methods to inform public health responses. Feedback from the journal club participants will be used to gauge interest in mathematical modeling methods to be prioritized in intermediate and advanced training programs.

Target participants
Members of the club will be public health professionals and researchers interested in using mathematical modeling to inform public policy. Participants may include postdocs and staff/faculty in the CDC, CCDD, and other public health institutions in the US, including JHU, Utah university, CSTE, ASTHO, and NACCHO. We will also invite collaborators from non-US institutions to join the journal club, including the participants of the CCDD-sponsored mathematical modeling course in Rwanda. We expect core members (i.e., CDC-funded postdocs and participants from the training programs) to commit to the journal club by regularly attending sessions, reviewing articles before the sessions, completing critical appraisal sheets, contributing to group discussions, and providing feedback.

Previous articles we have discussed:

Fall 2023

Date Presenter Article Recording
12/13/2023 Olivier Nsekuye Meltzer et al. 2016 MMWR Supplements CDC Olivier Nsekuye presents Meltzer et al. 
11/15/2023 Ensheng Dong Pierri et al. 2022 Scientific Reports Ensheng Dong presents Pierri et al.
10/18/2023 Katherine Jia Engebretsen et al. 2022 BMC Medical Research Methodology Katherine Jia presents Engebretsen et. al
9/20/2023 Abel Wilson Walekhwa Silal et al. 2022 Oxford Policy Management Abel Walekhwa presents Silal et. al.

 

Spring 2023

05/17/2023: McVernon et al. 2007 Influenza Other Respir Viruses
05/03/2023: Davies et al. 2019 Nat Ecol Evol.
04/19/2023: Atwood et al. 2022 Nat Rev Genet
04/05/2023: Bhouri et al. 2021 Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg
03/15/2023: D’Agostino McGowan et al. 2021 Am J. Epidemiol
03/01/2023: Yu et al. 2013 PLoS Med
01/18/2023: Gambhir et al. 2015 Clin Infect Dis.
02/01/2023: Kretzschmar et al. 2022 Epidemics
02/15/2023: O’Reilly et al. 2020 Epiedmiol Infect


For further information, please contact:

Sylvia Ofori – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CCDD

Caroline Thomas – Research Project Coordinator, CCDD