International Workshop on Social Contacts for Epidemic Modeling (EPICONTACTS2025)

Paris, December 8-9, 2025

From 08 to 09 December 2025

Main points

The ANRS MIE Coordinated Action on Infectious Disease Modeling is organizing an international workshop with the aim to bring together researchers and data producers to advance the use of social contact data in infectious disease modelling. .
The workshop will take place in the Duclaux amphitheater at the Pasteur Institute on December 8 and 9, 2025.

Workshop programme

EPICONTACTS2025 aims to bring together researchers and data producers to advance the use of social contact data in infectious disease modelling. The program will feature a training session targeted to early-career researchers and scientific sessions with presentations from invited speakers showcasing recent advances and methodological innovations in the field.

Topics cover alternatives to standard survey-based matrices, synthetic data generation, contact reconstruction from digital or behavioural sources, and the design of enriched matrices incorporating dimensions beyond age. The workshop will also provide opportunities for discussion between modelers and institutions collecting data that could be used to inform modeling frameworks.

Through a mix of education, discussion, and interdisciplinary engagement, this workshop seeks to strengthen the foundations and future directions of contact-based epidemiological modeling in Europe.

The workshop is part of the activities of the Working Group “Accounting for individual behaviors in models of epidemic dynamics” of the French Infectious Disease Modeling Network (Action Coordonnée “Modélisation des Maladies Infectieuses”) of the ANRS MIE

Registration

Participation is open to all; however, due to limited capacity, interested parties are invited to register and provide a brief statement of motivation.

Participation is free of charge. Registration will close on 17 October.

More information is available on the event website.

Registration