Programme:

COVID-19 talk 1: Vittoria Colliza – “Under-detection of COVID-19 cases in France threatens epidemic control”
COVID-19 talk 2: Marius Gilbert – “On the timing of interventions to preserve hospital capacity: lessons to be learned from the Belgian SARS-CoV-2 pandemic”

Subtask 4.1.2. Pilot prototype
– Pascal Poncelet (LIRMM) – “A visual platform for comparing geolocated time series:  application to COVID-19 mobility data”

Subtask 4.2.1. Mapping disease distribution
– Jean Artois (ULB) – “SDM and risk mapping in epidemiology: What’s it for and limitations? What would you need to build?”
– Esther van Kleef (ITG) – “COVID-19 mortality patterns in Europe”

Subtask 4.2.2. Mapping vector distributions
– William Wint (Univ. Oxford) – “Progress in modelling vectors and hosts”
– Thierno Madiou (BAH, CIRAD) – “Statistical niche modelling of Hyalomma marginatum in southern France”

Task 4.3. Risk of importation
– Vittoria Colliza’s team – Risk of importation

Subtask 4.4.1. Phylodynamic transmission patterns
– Simon Dellicour (ULB, KU Leuven) – “Epidemiological hypothesis testing using a phylogeographic and phylodynamic framework. Application to West Nile virus spread in North America”

Subtask 4.4.2. Transmission chains
– Giorgio Guzzetta (FEM) – “Spatial modes for transmission of chikungunya virus during a large chikungunya outbreak in Italy: a modeling analysis”

Subtask 4.5.1. Phylodynamic modelling of influenza in Europe to disentangle local transmission vs. importation
– Chiara Poletto (IUNSERM) – “Integrating dynamical modeling and phylogeographic inference to characterize global influenza circulation”