Coordinated Action on Infectious Disease Modelling (CA49)

Modelling has become an essential tool for understanding infectious dynamics, at both individual and population levels.

Last updated on 07 March 2024

In brief

This Coordinated Action covers a wide range of themes focused on the modelling of infectious diseases: population transmission models, emergence and dynamics of epidemics, quantitative epidemiology, within-host models, evolution and phylodynamics, integrating individual behaviours and health economics.

Activities

This Coordinated Action was created at the same time as ANRS MIE, based on a pre-existing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic modelling workgroup, making it part of the ongoing regular interactions between the different French research groups involved in infectious disease modelling.

Its activities aim to develop cutting-edge research based on an expert community, and to encourage the emergence of multidisciplinary collaborative projects that have direct relevance to practice.

Chair and Co-Chair


Simon Cauchemez
Institut Pasteur


Vittoria Colizza
Inserm

Board members

Jean-Stéphane Dhersin (CNRS, Sorbonne Paris Nord University)
Véronique Doré (ANRS MIE)
Audrey Dumas (ANRS MIE)
Sandrine Halfen (ANRS MIE)
Nathanaël Hozé (Inserm)
France Lert (ANRS MIE)

Lulla Opatowski (UVSQ, Inserm, Institut Pasteur)
Mélanie Prague (Inria)
Benjamin Roche (IRD)
Mircea Sofonea (Montpellier University)
Olivier Supplisson (Collège de France)
Amandine Véber (CNRS)

Scientific Committee

Workgroups

  • Mesoscopic models of epidemic dynamics (2021-…) – Initiator: Elisabeta Vergu – Leader: Eugenio Valdano
  • Modelling within-host dynamics (2021-…) – Leaders: Jérémie Guedj and Mélanie Prague
  • Accounting for individual behaviours in models of epidemic dynamics (2021-…) – Leaders: Benjamin Roche, Paolo Bosetti and Jocelyn Raude
  • Modelling the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (2023-…) – Leader: Samuel Alizon
  • Modelling vector-borne and zoonotic diseases (2023-…) – Leaders: Raphaëlle Métras and Simon Cauchemez
  • COVID-19 and respiratory diseases (2020-2022) – Leader: Simon Cauchemez

In addition, discussions have been taking place since 2021 on the COVID-19 experience, and in particular on identifying the changes in organisation and links between crisis management stakeholders that would be necessary to improve the response to emerging diseases. These discussions are coordinated by Pascal Crépey and Harold Noël.

Modelling and COVID-19

To illustrate the broad range of questions central to the activities of the Coordinated Action on Infectious Disease Modelling, here is a series of editorials coordinated by Mircea Sofonea and published in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine in April 2022

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