Healthahack & Emergency Operations Center Exercise
Speaker:
Jane Heffernan, York University, Ali Asgary, York University
Date and Time:
Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 10:45am to 12:15pm
Location:
The Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
Participants will be split into two alternating sessions between the healthahack and the EOC exercise with one taking place in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
Healthahack description: We will tackle public health problems that are currently affect Canadians in Fall 2022 – Winter 2023 as per current media and government new reports. Participant groups will work to estimate, for example, influenza or COVID-19 burden, or monkeypox or avian influenza spread using mathematical and/or statistical models. Questions relating public health and economic outcomes will be considered.