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NCCID: PHAC COVID-19 Mathematical Model Demo and Q&A

  • 27 Aug 2020
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Webinar

About this Event

The National Collaborating Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) is hosting the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) mathematical modelling webinar titled "SEIR COVID-19 Compartment Model: A model to gain insight into the effect of interventions on outcomes"

Synopsis

COVID-19 mathematical models are used by various levels of government for decision making including estimating disease burden, effectiveness of various public health interventions, and exploring which mitigation strategies could be effective in different situations. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on June 4, 2020 published an article in the Canada Communicable disease report (CCDR). The article describes predictive modelling of COVID-19 in general, and efforts to model the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the Canadian population to support public health decisions. The article describes and uses a deterministic Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model, as the basis to provide a synopsis of results related to various NPIs. During this webinar, Aamir Fazil, Chief of Risk Integration Synthesis and Knowledge Section at The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will discuss how to use and apply the model.

Speaker

Aamir Fazil is Chief of Risk Integration Synthesis and Knowledge Section at PHAC. Mr. Fazil holds Engineering degrees from Drexel University, has been working in quantitative microbial risk assessment for more than 20 years including being a primary contributor to several World Health Organization/Food and Agriculture Organization microbial risk assessment simulation models. Together with other scientists at PHAC, he contributed to the development of the COVID-19 SEIR model. Join us for Mr. Fazil’s presentation followed by a live Q&A session to answer your questions on the model and how it works.

Webinar Access Instructions

This webinar will be live-streamed. Webinar access instructions will be e-mailed to all registrants and posted on this page prior to the webinar.

If you have any questions for Mr. Fazil regarding how the model works, appropriate input for its calculations, or what it can tell us, please feel free to register for the webinar on the Eventbrite platform. The presentation will be followed by a live Q&A period.


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