A short Mathematical Epidemiology course

I recently (early April 2022) taught a short course on Mathematical Epidemiology at North-West University in Potchefstroom in South Africa. The course was part of the Mathematical Modeling Mini-Courses (3MC) series organised by Patrick M Tchepmo Djomegni (North-West University) and Mahamat S Daoussa Haggar (University of N’Djamena, Tchad).

Videos were recorded during the event but were re-recorded because of issues that arose during recording; the new videos are part of this YouTube playlist.

The course involved both regular lectures and practicums (tutorial type lectures). The links are to the YouTube videos (see this GitHub repo for the slides, code and further information), which last a total of just over 15 hours.

• Lecture 00: Course organisation - 21:16
• Lecture 01: History of epidemics and Historical epidemics - 47:13
• Lecture 02: Basic Mathematical Epidemiology - 2:14:34
• Lecture 03: Spread of infections in groups / in space - 56:45
• Lecture 04: Group models - 29:21
• Lecture 05: Metapopulation epidemic models - 1:43:34
• Lecture 06: Stochastic aspects in the spread of epidemics - 1:01:19
• Lecture 07: Stochastic epidemic models - 1:00:53
• Lecture 08: Agent-based models - 30:41

• Lecture 09: Some recent mathematical models for HIV/AIDS, Malaria, COVID-19 - 1:05:36

• Practicum 01: Introduction to R. Collecting data. Solving ODEs in R - 1:59:56
• Practicum 02: Model analysis, studying large-scale models in R - 1:40:09
• Practicum 03: Analysis, studying stochastic models in R. Simulating agent-based models - 1:13:41