Mathematical models for epidemic spread in socially structured populations

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• Lorenzo Pellis, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
• Tuesday 15 November 2011, 12:00-13:00
• Dennis Gabor Seminar Room (611), EEE Department.

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I will start the presentation by briefly introducing the basics of the mathematical theory for epidemics in the simplest context of unstructured populations. I will then extend the same ideas to models of epidemic spread in populations consisting of different types of individuals and then to populations partitioned into households. Finally, I will add the presence of schools to obtain an even more complex model, for which investigation via simulation is mandatory, and I will use it to draw some policy recommendations on the optimal use of school closure as a form of intervention during an influenza pandemic.

This talk is part of the Complexity & Networks Group series.

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