Organisation:
This two-days short course, co-organised by the R Epidemics Consortium (RECON) and the EPIET Alumni Network (EAN), will provide an introduction to outbreak analysis using the R software. It will take place in the Mater Dei Hospital Malta, 19-20 November 2018, as a satellite event to the ESCAIDE conference. The workshop will be aimed at people currently undertaking, or having recently completed, a field-epidemiology training programme (FETP), with some interest in epidemics analysis using R. Participants will get an overview and gain practical experience of new packages for outbreak analysis developed by RECON, including descriptive approaches (epicurves), short-term forecasting, or automated sitrep generation. While the course will be pitched at a beginner level, we strongly recommend that participants revise R basics by completing the free introduction session provided on the Swirl R package. Applications should be sent using the providing form (see 'Register' tab above).
At the end of the conference, there will additionally be a hackfest focused on generating case-studies and automated sitreps from your own data. You can find details on that at https://recon-hackfest-3.netlify.com
Organising members and facilitators
Facilitator - Outbreak response analytics and head of RECON
Facilitator - Field epidemiologist/microbiologist and coordinator of RECON, president of the EPIET Alumni Network
Facilitator - R developer and population geneticist; core developer and trainer for RECON
Course Facilitator - #Rstats
Course Facilitator - Member of the UK-Public Health Rapid Response Team
Course Facilitator - Developing methods and tools for inferring transmission during outbreaks
Course Facilitator - Infectious disease modelling
Providing logistics support on behalf of Imperial College
Providing logistics support on behalf of EAN, EAN treasurer
Chris made it possible to host us at Malta