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Overview
Course description
The Modelling infectious diseases and health economics course from is University of Antwerp shows that mathematical models are increasingly used to study infectious disease transmission, simulate reactive strategies and inform policy. In this course we focus on dynamic or time-dependent models representing the transmission of evolutionary systems. The level of model complexity increases from deterministic compartmental models up to stochastic individual-based models and we provide hands-on tutorials in R.
Health interventions are assessed with respect to both effects and costs in health economic evaluations or health technology assessments. The objective is to optimize health outcomes for a constrained health budget. We elaborate in this course on cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses for infectious disease interventions with focus on vaccines. We demonstrate different types of uncertainty for economic evaluations and key aspects to evaluate preventive and curative medicine.Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- The student is able to describe the concepts of dynamic transmission models and pivotal structural choices to make, given different transmission routes.
- The student is able to describe differences between deterministic and stochastic models.
- The student is able to describe differences between population and individual-based models
- The student is able to critically assess model applications for infectious disease transmission
- The student understands key concepts of health economic evaluation
- The student is able to generate, present and interpret cost-effectiveness results in the context of uncertainty
- The student has insights in specific issues arising with health economic evaluation of vaccines
- The student is able to critically assess economic evaluations of vaccines.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before , International
- Apply before , EEA/EU
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Language
English
Credits
3 ECTS
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Antwerpen, Belgium
Disciplines
Economics Mathematics Epidemiology View 3 other Short Courses in Mathematics in BelgiumWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Health science professionals, (bio)statisticians, economists, mathematicians, etc. who want to expand their modelling toolbox and/or increase their understanding of cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Our 5-day course is suitable for those with a background in mathematics, statistics or econometrics.
- For example, the paper of Bjørnstad et al. (2020) describes part of the course material. We invite you to join us in Antwerp if this kind of research resonates with you. We will off-course provide more details throughout the course.
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Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents600 EUR / full≈ 600 EUR / full -
EU/EEA Applies to you
Applies to youEU/EEA Nationals600 EUR / full≈ 600 EUR / full
Additional Details
- Academic and public sector: € 600
- Profit and commercial sector: € 1200
Living costs
Antwerpen
Belgium
787 - 1230 EUR / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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