Week 8 - July 18

Logistics

• Ghislaine and Edgard visiting this week!
• Midline evaluation interviews
• Wednesday July 20, 11am: peer editing hour
• Wednesday July 20, 1pm: Ousmane IGH WIP
• Thursday July 21, 10am: Journal club

Technical track (EMOD)

Topic: Individual properties

• Understand the concept and use case for individual properties (Obj 2a)
• Perform the following for own research project (Optional; Obj 2c)
  • Enable individual properties
  • Implement an intervention based on individual properties
  • Implement reporting based on individual properties
• => example exercises

Journal club

Presenter: Isaiah

Facilitator: Ben Toh

Walker PG, Griffin JT, Ferguson NM, Ghani AC. Estimating the most efficient allocation of interventions to achieve reductions in Plasmodium falciparum malaria burden and transmission in Africa: a modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 2016 Jul 1;4(7):e474-84.

Additional recommended reading: Public health impact and cost-effectiveness of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine: a systematic comparison of predictions from four mathematical models

Proposal writing

Revise Aims third drafts.

Evaluation

Midline participant survey and interviews.