Global Health Research Seminar: Consequences of Disease Control Policy

Starts:
1:00 pm on Monday, April 24, 2017
Ends:
2:00 pm on Monday, April 24, 2017
Location:
CT-305
URL:
http://www.bu.edu/sph/about/departments/global-health/global-health-events/global-health-research-seminar-series/
Guest Speaker: Nick Menzies, PhD Assistant Professor Global Health Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health. Description: The presentation will discuss how and why transmission dynamic modelling has been used to address global HIV and TB policy questions. The talk will locate this modelling within the range of approaches that might be used to answer these questions, describe situations where modelling will get it wrong, and discuss some partial solutions.