Recording

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ClKKx-Hu2jkEFM0vi7rwIbagH9dwL2YT/view?usp=sharing

Presentation Slides + Resources

Gayawan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ArSmo9NfHfhBjMPoU2Frpv4mvo7c9QjT/view?usp=sharing

Adegboye: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dEPJCTBqJ6h0-KuISl6gFhfonvB5dQQL/view?usp=sharing

Pak: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tWXKM16Iaf9qrpDsoxumXrkgynebdnz8/view?usp=sharing

Adekunle: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YNYVfE0LCmDxomR-3zoQ7JmWrcrZYGn_/view?usp=sharing

Summary: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AtZMlAPrTh8_CB8LF6upXugG5CDCAAiduuCfjuxDAPI/edit?usp=sharing

Abstract

Wednesday, 19 May 2021: 14:00-15:30 UTC

COVID-19 Pandemic in Low and Lower Middle-Income Countries (Ezra Gayawan organizer)

Summary: Emerging infectious diseases remain public health challenges with serious socio-economic and political consequences. COVID-19, a highly contagious viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now spread to all countries of the world. Statistical and mathematical approaches to infectious disease modelling are extremely useful during outbreaks. They provide information such as the likelihood of introduction and spread of infection, the effectiveness of public health interventions that have been implemented as control measures across different locations and disparities of risk of infection due to demographic characteristics. This session considers some approaches to understanding the dynamics of COVID-19 viral infection in Low- and Lower Middle-income countries (L-LMICs). The session starts with an introduction to the early global dynamics COVID-19, followed by a talk on some approach of disease mapping with applications to COVID-19 data in some L-LMICs. The third session will feature a talk on mathematical models and their applications to COVID-19 data. The session will conclude with a talk on the economic implications of COVID-19 in L-LMICs.

The presenters and the titles of their talks are as follows:

Dr Oyelola Adegboye¹: “Introduction to the early global dynamic of COVID-19.” He will moderate the session.

Dr. Ezra Gayawan²: “Some approaches to disease mapping with applications to COVID-19 data”

Dr. Adeshina Adekunle¹: “Mathematical models of SARS-CoV-2 dynamics in L-LMICs”

Dr. Anton Pak¹: “COVID-19 Economic Implications for L-LMICs.”

Affiliations:

¹Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

²Department of Statistics, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria