BBC Pandemic – informing infectious disease models with citizen science
Please arrive 5 minutes before the talk is due to start to gain access to the building
To mark the centenary of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the BBC have put together a feature-length documentary called ‘Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic’. Central to the documentary is a nationwide citizen science experiment, during which volunteers in the United Kingdom could download and use a custom mobile phone app called BBC Pandemic, and contribute their movement and contact data for a day. This talk explores the modelling work that went into building influenza epidemic simulations for this program and some insights from this incredibly rich data set.
Date: 5 June 2019, 12:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Medawar Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3SY
Venue Details: Seminar room, level 30
Speaker: Dr Petra Klepac (Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Organiser: Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: suki.kenth@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford)
Part of: Peter Medawar Building Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Suki Kenth