Understanding behavioural responses to infectious disease outbreaks
A one-day workshop, developed by the University of Liverpool and organised by the Infectious Disease Research Network.
Date: Friday 11 June 2010
Location: Regents College, central London, NW1
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This event is free to attend.
Workshop information and background
The influenza pandemic of 2009 highlighted the need to better understand how individuals may modify or change their behaviour in response to outbreaks of infectious diseases. Many aspects of healthcare response and control policies to large-scale outbreaks are influenced by behaviours: vaccination strategies are dependent on uptake rates; changes in the likelihood of seeking health-care can affect surveillance methods; school or workplace closures to reduce transmission could have significant economic implications which may override the expected control benefits. Quantifying these types of behaviour and integrating them into predictive epidemiological and economic models are key challenges.
This meeting will explore such issues from a number of different perspectives, with reference to important lessons learnt so far from the swine ‘flu pandemic. The workshop will also consider new technologies or methodologies that may help investigate behavioural responses, and the ethical challenges they present; we expect it to be of interest to those involved in health-care policy generation, epidemiological and economic modellers, and health psychology researchers.
Registration
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CostAll delegates can attend this event free of charge. However, please do register using the above link.
Posters
We invite delegates to submit a poster abstract related to the workshop themes, this can be done through the registration form. As timescales are short, we will accept all appropriate posters subject to there being enough posterboard space (so they will be accepted in the order we receive them)
If you have already registered and now wish to display a poster, or wish to submit an abstract prior to registering, then do email Mike Head directly, mhead@idrn.org, with title, authors and abstract detail (max 250 words).
Venue
Herringham Hall, Regent's College Conference Centre
Inner Circle
Regent's Park
London
NW1 4NS
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Nearby accommodation
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Contact the IDRN
Please direct queries to either Cherry Constantine, c.constantine@ucl.ac.uk or Michael Head, mhead@idrn.org , or phone 020 7830 2239.