Event
QLS/CAMBAM Seminar - Dr. Felicia Magpantay
Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:00to13:00
McIntyre Medical Building
908, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA
Some challenges in modeling imperfect vaccines
Felicia Magpantay
Queen鈥檚 University
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The dynamics of vaccine-preventable diseases depend on the underlying disease process and the nature of the vaccine. In this talk I will present a general model of an imperfect vaccine and the epidemiological consequences of different modes of vaccine failure. I will also discuss likelihood-based statistical inference methods that can be used to estimate the parameters of the model even in the presence of incomplete covariate information (such as vaccine coverage). The methods used can be extended to study and fit mechanistic models of complex phenomenon beyond those in disease ecology.