Workshop: Community

Tentative Agenda on Feb. 28 2023 (Online) - 8:00am/5pm MST

(7:30am- 8:00am) Connecting in and tech check

(8:00am-8:10am) Welcome  (Introductions, Outline, and Goals)

(8:10am -9:10am) Keynote Talk

  • Martin Meltzer, PhD

    • Lead, Health Economics and Modeling Unit (HEMU) at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

(9:10am-9:15am) Break

(9:15am-10:15am) Session #1: Community Experiences at Different Scales

  • Hiroshi Nishura, PhD

    • Professor of Hygiene, Kyoto University

    • Adviser for the Japanese Government during COVID-19 pandemic

  • Timothy Lant, PhD

    • Lead, COVID-19 modeling task force, Modeling Emerging Threats for Arizona (METAz)

  • Stephanie Deitrick, PhD

    • Lead, Enterprise GIS & Data Analytics, City of Tempe, AZ

(10:15am- 11:10am) Break-out session #1

  • Who are the key academic, industrial, governmental, and NGO stakeholders and what are the best mechanisms to engage them?

  • How should the community network be expanded?

(11:10am-11:15am) Break

(11:15am-12:15am) Session #2: Technology Talks

  • Nina Fefferman, PhD

    • Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    • Lead PI, NSF PIPP Phase 1: Predicting Emergence in Multidisciplinary Pandemic Tipping-points (PREEMPT)

  • Giulia Pedrielli, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University

    • Co-PI, PIPP Phase I: Computational Foundations for Bio-social Modeling of Unseen Pandemics

  • Vel Murugan, PhD

    • Assoc. Research Director, ASU Biodesign Center for Personalized Diagnostics and ASU Biodesign Clinical Testing Laboratory

(12:15pm- 1:30pm) Lunch Break

(1:30pm-2:30pm) Session #3: Technology and Policy Talks 

  • Hyoshin Kim, PhD

    • Senior Research Scientist, Health Analytics, Battelle

  • Angel Desai, PhD

    • Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, UC Davis

  • Kieran Sharkey, PhD

    • Professor of Mathematics, University of Liverpool

    • Investigator, EcoGamesPlus ITN: Evolutionary games and population dynamics: from theory to applications

  • Niu Hao, PhD

    • Senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California

    • PI, A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership to Improve Pandemic Recovery Efforts in California

(2:30pm-3:15pm) Breakout session #2:

  • What are the key services and technologies  we can provide to the community to provide for maximal impact?

(3:15pm- 3:25pm) Break

(3:25pm-4:30pm) Panel

  • Nina Fefferman, PhD

    • Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    • Lead PI, NSF PIPP Phase 1: Predicting Emergence in Multidisciplinary Pandemic Tipping-points (PREEMPT)

  • Louiqa Raschid, PhD

    • Professor, University of Maryland at College Park

    • Lead PI, NSF PIPP Phase 1: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Messaging and Modeling during Pandemics (PandEval)

  • Timothy Lant, PhD

    • Lead, COVID-19 modeling task force, Modeling Emerging Threats for Arizona (METAz)

  • Gabriel Rainisch, PhD

    • Epidemiologist, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections (DPEI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  • Stephanie Deitrick, PhD

    • Lead, Enterprise GIS & Data Analytics, City of Tempe, AZ

  • Pavan Turaga, PhD

    • PI, PIPP Phase I: Computational Foundations for Bio-social Modeling of Unseen Pandemics

(4:30pm-4:40pm) Reports from the breakout sessions

(4:40pm-4:45pm) Closing of the day