Course Debut! Pandemiology: Epidemic Diseases that Shaped the World, and the Methods Used to Study Them

Course overview:

Monday 9 Nov: Introduction to Pandemiology - Lessons from the past 

“Introduction to Pandemiology” (Lone Simonsen) 

"The population biology of infectious diseases and the SIR-model" (Viggo Andreasen) 

“Fundamentals of Pandemiology from the SSI Perspective” (Tyra Grove Krause) 

"Identifying Signature Features of Epidemic Diseases in 19th Century All-Cause Mortality Data" (Maarten van Wijhe) 

"The Evolving HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Risks” (Jens Lundgren) 

"A Disease for the Ages: The Story of Tuberculosis” (Eskild Petersen) 

Tuesday 10 Nov: COVID-19 - A pandemic in our time 

"Evaluating the COVID-19 responses of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, February-June 2020: a counterfactual modeling study" (Jacco Wallinga – to be confirmed) 

“Surveillance methods: How to identify and keep track of COVID-19" (Tyra Grove Krause) 

"Using blood donor serology to monitor COVID-19 spread, and broader perspectives on sero-epidemiology” (Christian Erikstrup) 

"Using mathematical modeling of different NPI scenarios to inform COVID-19 policy" (Lasse Engbo Christiansen & Kaare Græsbøl) 

"Lessons from COVID-19: Agent-based models to elucidate the importance of super spreading in controlling an outbreak“ (Bjarke Frost Nielsen) 

Special evening seminar: "Infectious disease epidemiology in context: lessons we should have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic" (Mike Osterholm) 

Wednesday 11 Nov: How we model epidemics - Lessons from Smallpox, Mpox, and Cholera  

"Smallpox: what happened in the past?” (Romola Davenport) 

“Modelling the impact of the first vaccine program ever: disease dynamics and demography" (Andreas Thomas Eilersen)

"The HOPE project: real-time and human behavioural surveys to strengthen Trust during the COVID-19 pandemic” (Michael Bang Pedersen) 

“Molecular epidemiology of mpox” (Anders Gorm Pedersen) 

"The decline of the 2022 Clade 2b mpox outbreak: Effect of network structure and consequences for vaccine strategy” (Ulrik Hvid) 

“Cholera Historically” (Lone Simonsen & Andreas Eilersen) 

"Contemporary Cholera: Ongoing Outbreaks and Challenges in the DRC and Haiti" (Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen – to be confirmed) 

Thursday 12 Nov: Zoonotic Jumps - Molecular epidemiology and One Health approaches 

"Overview of assorted One Health issues" (Eskild Petersen)  

“Emerging mosquito-borne diseases in Europe: the role of climate change and other important drivers” (René Bødker) 

"Bioinformatics and Molecular Epidemiology: What do pathogen sequence data tell us?" (Anders Gorm Pedersen) 

"Ebola outbreak DRC 2026” (Eskild Petersen) 

"Disease X surveillance: wastewater monitoring to detect emerging pandemic threats" (Frank Aarestrup) 

"Enteroviruses in a post-polio Europe: current situation and threats" (Thea Kølsen Fischer) 

Friday 13 Nov: The Vaccine Equation - Safety, Economics, and Trust 

"Vaccines as the solution: measuring effect” (Lone Simonsen) 

"Pertussis: The contemporary challenges with control" (Michael Briga) 

“Using registry-based research to study vaccine adverse events” (Anders Peter Hviid) 

“Tools of health economics for Pandemiology” (Sangeeta Mookherji) 

“Vaccine economics: Cost-effectiveness and global financing allocations for prevention of pandemics” (Ulla Kou Griffiths) 

"Closing Session: The future of Pandemiology: Vaccines, Trust, and Misinformation" (Marc-Alain Widdowson & Stinus Lingreen)