Morris, Goodreau, and Jenness Presenting at Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases
Posted: 6/26/2025 ()
CSDE Former Director & Affiliate Martina Morris, CSDE Development Core Director Steve Goodreau, and CSDE Affiliate Samuel Jenness will be offering two modules pertaining to Network Modeling for Epidemics using EpiModel at this year’s SISMID (Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases).
Both modules are in person in Atlanta.
Network Modeling for Epidemics I: July 21-23. This module is ideal for those who are starting out with EpiModel, or who want a refresher. It is roughly equivalent to a condensed version of the old NME workshop in Seattle.
Network Modeling for Epidemics I (NME-I) introduces stochastic network models for infectious disease transmission dynamics. It is a ‘’hands-on’’ course, using the EpiModel software package in R. EpiModel software provides a unified framework for statistically based modeling of dynamic networks from empirical data, and simulation of epidemic dynamics over these networks. This explicit modeling of networks is essential for accurate projections when the contacts that enable transmission are sparse, highly structured, heterogeneous and/or evolving over time.
Network Modeling for Epidemics II: July 23-25. This module is ideal for those who have taken or will take NME-I, either this year or last year at SISMID, or else in Seattle in years pass.
Network Modeling for Epidemics II extends the material in NME-I to developing research-level applications of EpiModel and its underlying TERGM statistical framework. Here, we focus on learning how to use the application programming interface (API) in EpiModel to design and program epidemic model components (or “modules”) that define a network-based epidemic model for a specific research question. The goal is to enable students to build EpiModel extensions to represent any infectious disease component in a system of interest.