Compartmental Model Analysis of Epidemiologic Processes

Professor

Jim Koopman MD MPH

This course teaches compartmental model construction and analysis for the purpose of generating and evaluating theory regarding epidemiological systems. It employs Stella software which is available for both Macintosh and Windows platforms from High Performance Systems.

The activities planned for the semester are available in the Course Syllabus.

The course text is being written by the Professor.

Course Text

• Chapter 1: An Introduction to Modeling Epidemiological Processes
• Chapter 2: Rates and Risks: Modeling a constant rate process in a fixed Population
• Chapter 3: Population Dynamics and Equilibrium
• Chapter 4: Epidemiological Statistics Relating Exposure and Disease
• Three Basic Epidemiological Models
• Chapter 6: Risk Factor Assessment for Fast Spreading Infections that Induce Immunity
• Chapter 7: The "All or None" model of vaccine effects
• Chapter 8: More realistic and complete models of vaccine effects
• Chapter 9: Multistage Disease Processes and Time Dependent Flows
• Chapter 10: The Dynamics of Screening Programs