
Students and early-career postdocs will participate in a 2.5 day workshop focused on acquiring skills that disease ecologists and epidemiologists will need to respond to the next global pandemic. Specifically, students will learn how to work with disease forecasting models, and model different scenarios for an outbreak of a new pandemic. They will then split into two sub-groups: one focused on the impacts of socio-economics and human land use, and another focused on using human mobility data to understand and inform outbreak response. Concurrently, all participants will learn communication skills in order to better communicate their science with policy makers and the public.
Workshop Leaders

Karen Lips
Professor, Biology
University of Maryland
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Maryn McKenna
Journalist, Author and Senior Fellow
of the Center for the Study
of Human Health,
Emory University
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Sam Whitehead
Correspondent,
Georgia and elsewhere in the south
Kaiser Health News' Southern Bureau

Jacobus de Roode
Samuel C. Dobbs Professor,
Biology Department
Director, Infectious Disease
Across Scales Training Program
Co-Director, MP3 Initiative
Emory University
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Calistus Ngonghala
Assistant Professor,
Mathematical Biology
University of Florida
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Sam Scarpino
Managing Director,
Rockefeller Foundation
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Noam Ross
Principal Scientist,
EcoHealth Alliance
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Application
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