Novel Statistical Approaches for the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Epidemics, and the Environment

Sun, Aug 6, 4:00 PM

Razvan RomanescuChair

Section on Statistics in Epidemiology

7 Presentations

A Dynamical Mechanistic Spatio-Temporal Framework for Modeling the Spread of Infectious Diseases

4:05 PM - 4:20 PM

Ali Arab (Georgetown University)

A Scalar-on-Quantile-Function Approach for Estimating Short-term Effects of Environmental Exposures

4:20 PM - 4:35 PM

Yuzi Zhang (Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health)

Co-authors: Howard Chang (Emory University), Joshua Warren (Yale University), Stefanie Ebelt (Department of Environmental Health, Emory University)

A spatio-temporal factor model to describe the opioid syndemic in Ohio

4:35 PM - 4:50 PM

David Kline (Wake Forest University School of Medicine)

Co-authors: William Miller (The Ohio State University), Andrea Bonny (Nationwide Children's Hospital), Erin McKnight (Nationwide Children's Hospital), Lance Waller (Emory University), Staci Hepler (Wake Forest University)

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Utilization in the the Vaccine Safety Datalink

4:50 PM - 5:05 PM

Lei Qian

Co-authors: Lina Sy (Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Vennis Hong (Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Sungching Glenn (Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Denison Ryan (Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Jennifer Nelson (Kaiser Permanente Health Research Institute), Simon Hambidge (Denver Health Ambulatory Care Services), Bradley Crane (Kaiser Permanente Northwest), Ousseny Zerbo (Kaiser Permanente Northern California), Malini DeSilva (HealthPartners Institute), Jason Glanz (Kaiser Permanente Colorado), James Donahue (Marshfield Clinic Research Institute), Elizabeth Liles (Kaiser Permanente Northwest), Jonathan Duffy (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Stanley Xu (Kaiser Permanente Southern California)

Modeling COVID-19 scenarios: Experience in Taiwan

5:05 PM - 5:20 PM

Hsiao-Hui Tsou (National Health Research Institutes)

Co-authors: Shu-Chen Kuo (National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes), Yu-Chieh Cheng (Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes), Hsiao-Yu Wu (Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes)

Optimizing Trap Placement to Predict West Nile Virus Cases

5:20 PM - 5:35 PM

Anwesha Chakravarti (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Co-authors: Bo Li (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Rebecca Smith (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign), Dan Bartlett (Northwest Mosquito Abatement District), Patrick Irwin (Northwest Mosquito Abatement District)

Spatial distribution of food outlets near private and public schools in California

5:35 PM - 5:50 PM

Md Karimuzzaman

Co-authors: Brisa Sanchez (Drexel University), Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh (San Francisco State University)

Session participants

Michelle Shardell (Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine)

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