London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Join us for the Social Inequalities in Infectious Disease Dynamics Symposium at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The day features a full programme of presentations and invited talks from leading researchers focusing on conceptual, methodological, and applied perspectives on the analysis of social inequalities in transmission dynamics.

This event will be hybrid, with guests able to attend in-person or online. If you plan to attend the event in-person, please let Beth Morgan know for attendee estimation.

Programme

09:45 – 10:00 Welcome & opening remarks

Roz Eggo, LSHTM

10:00 – 10:25 Differences in contact behaviour by social economic status during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

Jantien Backer, The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Dutch: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, RIVM)

10:25 – 10:50 Quantifying fairness in infectious disease modeling

Michele Tizzoni, University of Trento

10:50 – 11:15 From behavioral inequalities to epidemic outcomes: Data, analysis, and modeling

Marton Karsai, Central European University

11:15 – 11:45 Morning coffee break

Refreshment will be served at the Pumphandle Social Bar

11:45 – 12:10 Disentangling the drivers of influenza inequalities by relative deprivation in England

Lucy Goodfellow, LSHTM

12:10 – 12:35 Impact of the distribution of contacts by ethnicity on outbreak dynamics

Alexis Robert, LSHTM

12:35 – 13:00 What does residential segregation actually do in the context of infectious disease transmission?

Jon Zelner, University of Michigan

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

Catering will be served at the Pumphandle Social Bar

14:00 – 14:25 Infectious disease inequities with the introduction of new prevention and treatment innovations in Africa

Liz Fearon, University College London

14:25 – 14:50 Towards more expressive compartmental models

Nicola Perra, Queen Mary University

14:50 – 15:15 Who mixes with whom? Rethinking social contact data for inequality-aware infectious disease models

Niel Hens, Universities of Antwerp and Hasselt

15:15 – 15:45 Afternoon coffee break
 

Refreshment will be served at the Pumphandle Social Bar

15.45 - 16:15 Lightning talks

• Beyond demographics: Using interpretable lifestyle embeddings to identify behavior-based structure in contact networks by Hamish Gibbs, Northeastern University
• Sociodemographic disparities in health seeking behavior for respiratory viruses by Soren Larsen, UC Berkeley
• The impact of semi-random mixing on health inequality modelling by Michael Smah, University of Warwick

16:15 – 16:40 Decomposing direct and clinically-mediated pathways from social disadvantage to chronic ill-health: a case study on long COVID quality of life

Tigist Menkir, Stanford University

16:40 – 17.05 Contact tracing reveals fine-scale structure of social interactions in England
 

Jonathan Read, Lancaster University

17.05 – 17:10 Closing Remarks

Roz Eggo, LSHTM

Event notices

• Please note that you can join this event in person or you can join the session remotely