Comments from recent attendees

General

• 'Great course! It's hard to bring people from different levels of knowledge together, but this course succeeded in doing so.'
• 'It would help infectious diseases doctors to develop a higher level of comprehension of how epidemics spread.'
• 'Many MDs working in tropical areas badly need these concepts...'
• 'One of the few courses where I really feel I learnt something useful.'
• 'One of best courses I have taken'
• 'It was relevant, compact, intensive.'
• 'The course is an excellent introduction to the field. It covers all the basics and I know enough to go away and work on the aspects I'd like to develop further.'
• 'I think the subject is relevant to anyone in healthcare, not just decision makers. Gives different ways of looking at diseases.'
• 'It is an excellent starting point for disease modelling.'

Course content and structure

• 'Really helps reinforce basic epidemiology and how that is applied and taken further.'
• 'We have lectures covering basic concepts and following that there are practicals to further digest them, that is so like me!'
• 'Is a really good course, where you really get useful outputs! Beautiful course to get in touch with modelling.'
• 'Lots of practicals for each session, lots of examples based on diseases: wide spectrum for applications.'
• 'Very rich content, did very well to get so much into such a short time.'

Level of difficulty

• 'Very good for a totally 'blur' person like me on modelling - I saw the light.'
• 'Just right; could even have been more difficult (but it would take more time to explain the maths; so this might not be feasible).'
• 'Challenging but very well presented.'
• 'This course provided a great introduction to modelling for non-mathematicians, making this important discipline accessible.'
• 'Just the right amount of challenging content.'
• 'It gives a good introduction to mathematical modelling for people without strong mathematical background to understand.'

Organization and teaching

• 'Everything was very well organised.'
• 'Complete use of all our time - I certainly got 'my moneys' worth! Mix of fellow students was excellent, majority of lectures were to a really high standard, as you would hope from world famous LSHTM!'
• 'Excellent teachers, very good division of time between activities.'
• 'I learnt a lot more from this course (LSHTM) than another modelling course I attended. First the lecture notes are really good. Second each lecture was followed by a practical session and is really fantastic. This helps students to consolidate the ideas from lecture and put the theory into practice. On the whole FANTASTIC. Thank you!'