Modelling and controlling infectious diseases
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2017-12
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Infectious disease control is a major challenge in China due to China’s fast growing economy, changing social networks and evolving health service infrastructures. The success of disease control in China has a profound impact beyond its borders. In support of better disease control, this five year research program was designed to enhance China’s national capacity for analyzing, modeling and predicting transmission dynamics of infectious diseases through joint research, training young scientists, and building collaborative relationships. This successful program was led by the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention (Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, China) and the Centre for Disease Modeling (York University, Canada), and involved a number of Canadian and Chinese universities in various areas of infectious disease modelling and control. The bilateral collaboration also trained numerous highly qualified personnel and built a network for sustaining collaboration. This capacity building was facilitated by joint projects and bilateral annual meetings in major cities in China and Canada. The research activities on modeling major public health threats of infectious diseases focused on major diseases in China and/or issues of global public health concern including HIV transmission and prevention among high risk population, HIV treatment and drug resistance, influenza, schistosomiasis, mutation and stemma of SIV and HIV, latent and active tuberculosis infection, HBV control and vaccination. The outputs of the project were reported through peer-reviewed publications and modelling– based and science-informed public policy recommendations.
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The financial support by IDRC has made it much easier to put together network activities involving scientists in both countries, a special example is the large presence of the Chinese students in the 2012 Summer School on Mathematics for Public Health the Canadian group organized in Edmonton in May of 2012.
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Final Technical Report
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HIV, MODELLING DISEASE SPREAD, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, TRANSMISSION, EPIDEMIOLOGY, MATHEMATICAL MODELING, CONTROL, CHINA, HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH SURVEYS, PUBLIC HEALTH