Background
Agent-based models (ABMs) allow detailed simulation of people and their interactions. However, ABMs often run slowly and are complicated to configure, which has limited their use. Starting with Covasim (for COVID-19), we developed several ABMs designed to make modeling more accessible for people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Recently, we codified the principles of these...
Background: Despite declining HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Netherlands, a recent plateau and the high proportion of late-stage diagnoses (29% in 2024) indicate ongoing transmission and delayed detection. Infections introduced through immigration are increasingly relevant in this low-incidence setting, motivating a reassessment of testing guidelines, which we...
Up until now, the main use of social contact studies in epidemic modelling has been to create a next generation matrix containing mean number of contacts between different age groups, in order to capture heterogeneity in contacts between age groups. However, empirical evidence show that the majority of variation in contacts is not between age-groups, but within age groups, and also within...
In the first presentation, Robyn Stuart from the Gates Foundation will introduce HPVsim [1], an ABM for transmission of HumanPapilloma Virus, and explore the impact of different cervical screening and HPV vaccination strategies for India.
In the second presentation, Ganna Rozhnova from the Utrecht University will discuss an ABM-modelled Omicron transmission across secondary schools in...
