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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Unravelling the association between precipitation an
 d transmission of waterborne pathogens"
DTSTART:20181016T121500
DTEND:20181016T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anton Camacho\, Research Fellow\,  LSHTM London\, UK\nhas a
  background as a bioinformatics engineer and a thesis in Infectious Diseas
 e Modelling. After a post-doc at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical M
 edicine\, he joined Epicentre in 2016. His work focuses on the development
  and analysis of mathematical models to study the mechanisms underlying th
 e epidemiological dynamics of infectious diseases. More broadly\, he is in
 terested in interdisciplinary research\, combining mathematics\, biology a
 nd computer science\, in order to answer public health questions.\nAbstrac
 t:\nWaterborne diseases\, such like cholera\, affect vulnerable population
 s with limited access to safe drinking water resources. Although their epi
 demic dynamics have long been linked to climatic variations\, such as rain
 fall and drought\, it has proved difficult to quantify this association be
 cause of its non-linear and lagged nature\, which can be confounded by oth
 er risk factors. In this talk\, I will present the use of mathematical and
  statistical modelling to quantify the association between precipitation a
 nd the transmission of waterborne diseases. I will focus on (i) hepatitis-
 E epidemics in internally-displaced population camps and (ii) the recent m
 assive cholera outbreak in Yemen. I will conclude with a discussion on the
  use of these models for real-time epidemic prediction.
LOCATION:GR A3 32 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==GR%20A3%2032
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