Week 2 - June 6

Logistics

  • Monday June 6, 10am: group meeting (participant research talks)
  • Tuesday June 7, 10am: AMMnet seminar
  • Wednesday June 8, 10am: Journal club
  • Wednesday June 8 1pm: Manuela IGH WIP

Technical track (EMOD)

Topic: Basic building blocks of EMOD

  • Identify the three building blocks to run an EMOD simulation (Obj 2c)
    • The basic inputs: Parameters, demographics and climates
    • The reports/outputs: JSON/CSV outputs
    • The interventions: dynamic creation of the campaign file
  • Create demographics and climate files, and incorporate into simulations (Obj 2d)
    • Implement in own research project
    • Run barebones version of own research project
  • Grab and plot outputs (Obj 2d)
    • InsetChart
    • MalariaSummaryReport
    • Implement in own research project
  • => example exercises

Presentations

Research talks by program participants on previous or ongoing projects.

Journal club

Presenter: Jaline

Runge, M., Molteni, F., Mandike, R. et al. Applied mathematical modelling to inform national malaria policies, strategies and operations in Tanzania. Malar J 19, 101 (2020).

Proposal writing

Structure of an Aims page and rhetorical patterns.

Video 1 on rhetorical patterns

Video 2 on Aims