Talks at InFER2011

Author	Affiliation	Talk type	Presentation
Peter Diggle	Lancaster University	Plenary	Partial Likelihood Analysis of Spatio-temporal Processes
Denis Mollison	Heriot-Watt University	Main	The Structure of Epidemic Models
Theo Kypraios	Unversity of Nottingham	Main	Efficient Likelihood-free Inference for Partially Observed Stochastic Epidemic Models
Chris Jewell	University of Warwick	Main	InFER: Inference for Epidemic related Risk
Gavin Gibson	Heriot-Watt University	Plenary	Assessing the Adequacy of Epidemic Models Using Hybrid Approaches
Christl Donnelly	Imperial College London	Plenary	Understanding the Links Between Badgers, Culling and Bovine TB: Silver Bullet or Cautionary Tale?
Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba	Univ. Rome Tor Vergata	Main	Generation and Other Times in Epidemic Models
Daniela de Angelis	MRC-BSU, Cambridge	Main	Epidemic monitoring using synthesis of information from multiple sources
William Browne	University of Bristol	Main	Using Discrete Time Survival Models to Model Breakdown with TB of Cattle Using the Randomised Badger Culling Trial Dataset
Neil Ferguson	Imperial College London	Plenary	Epidemic inference: lessons learnt from flu
Michael Höhle	Robert Koch Institute, Berlin	Main	suRv's up: Statistical Software for the Surveillance of Infectious Diseases
Juliane Manitz	Georgia Augusta University	Short	Bayesian Hierarchical Model Algorithm for Automated Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Leo Zijerveld	BioSS/SAC	Short	Estimating Parameters for Stochastic Models of Demography and Disease in Wildlife Populations
Trevelyan McKinley	University of Cambridge	Short	Exact Simulation-based Inference in Temporal Epidemic Models
Jantien Backer	Central Veterinary Institute, The Netherlands	Short	Classical and Bayesian Analyses of Transmission Experiments
Ashley Ford	University of Warwick	Main	Indian Buffet Epidemics - A Non-parametric Bayesian Approach to Modelling Heterogeneity
Nikolaos Demiris	Agricultural University of Athens	Short	On the Epidemic of Financial Crises
Paul Birrell	MRC-BSU, Cambridge	Short	Efficient use of SMC Methods in Structured Epidemic Models with Deterministic Dynamics
Glenn Marion	BioSS/SAC	Short	Inferring the Spatial Spread of Invasive Aliens Using Epidemiological Models
Emanuele del Fava	Hasselt University	Short	Statistical Inference for Models of Close-contact Disease Transmission. A Comparison of Bayesian Melding and Bootstrap Models
Mark Woolhouse	University of Edinburgh	Main	Foot-and-mouth Disease Virus Dynamics at Different Spatial Scales
Laura Green & Martin Green	University of Warwick	Plenary	Are Clinicians Naturally Bayesian: Can a Bayesian Approach Inform Decision Making?
Daniel Wilson	University of Oxford	Main	Integrating Models of Evolutionary Ancestry and Transmission
Emma McBryde	Royal Melbourne Hospital	Main	Statistical challenges in hospital acquired infection data
Anne Presanis	MRC-BSU, Cambridge	Short	Changes in Severity of Pandemic (H1N1/A) 2009 Influenza in England: a Bayesian Evidence Synthesis
Magne Aldrin	Norwegian Computing Center	Short	Space-time Modelling of the Spread of a Disease Between Marine Fish Farms
Niel Hens	Hasselt University & University of Antwerp	Short	Inferring Reproductive Numbers from Final Size Epidemic Data on Hepatitis A in Flanders, Belgium: Truncation, Censoring, and Heterogeneity
Susanna Lewerin	National Veterinary Institute, Sweden	Short	Applying Epidemiological Methods in Outbreak Situations
Ben Cowling	University of Hong Kong	Short	Transmissibility of Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza in a Cohort of Households in Hong Kong
Madeine Cule	University of Oxford	Short	Modelling Transmission of Clostridium difficile in Hospitals
Ben Cowling	University of Hong Kong	Short	Inferring Influenza A Infection Attack Rates from Serologic Data Allowing for Cross-reactive Antibody Responses
Andrzej Jarynowski	Jagiellonian University	Short	Contact network and the Spread of MRSA in Hospitals
Simon Cauchemez	Imperial College London	Main	Role of Social Networks in Shaping Disease Transmission During a Community Outbreak of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza
Leonhard Held	University of Zurich	Plenary	Spatio-temporal Modelling of Infectious Disease Surveillance Data
Helen Johnson	LSHTM	Short	Novel ABC - Bayesian Emulation Hybrid Algorithm for Complex Model Calibration: the First Waves
Christiane Dargatz	Helmholtz Zentrum München	Short	Bayesian Inference for Epidemics using Diffusion Approximations
Oliver Ratmann	Duke University & Imperial College London	Short	Statistical Inference for Viral Disease based on Epidemiological and Genetic Summary Statistics
Romain Guy	INRA / Paris Diderot	Short	Inference for Epidemic Data Using Diffusion Processes with Small Diffusion Coefficient
Ben Cooper	Mahidol University	Main	Analysis of Hospital Infection Data
Nigel French	Massey University	Plenary	The King's Shilling and the Kiwi Dollar: Experiences of how Models Inform Policy for the Control of Infectious Disease.
Phil O'Neill	University of Nottingham	Workshop	Introduction to Bayesian Analysis for Epidemic Models