Introducing CSDE’s New Infectious Disease Transmission Modeling Working Group

Posted: 4/9/2025 ()

With a critical mass of new affiliates working in the area of modeling transmission dynamics of infectious diseases — CSDE decided to form a new working group! An initial meet-and-greet and planning meeting was held in mid-March, with ten folks in attendance. Now, we’re ready to announce our regular meetings: every fourth Tuesday (summer included!), 3:30 – 5:00 pm, in HRC (Hans Rosling Center (HRC), a.k.a the Pop Health Building). We are hoping for Room 101 for the long term, but will need to be flexible for the first few meetings. Zoom will also be available, but in-person is always preferred!  Each month we’ll have someone present their research, past, present or future, with a focus on both the substance and the methods, so we can all learn from one another, provide thoughtful feedback, and make new connections and collaborations. Steve Goodreau and Abie Flaxman will be co-leading for the start.

For more information about each talk, and other relevant events, please join our mailing list here. Feel free to invite students, post-docs, advisers, etc. Note that for those with more of an interest in within-host pathogen modeling, the Hutch’s Mathematical Modeling Affinity Group may also be of interest.