Emily Howerton
London E1W 1YW, UK
Portland, ME 04101
2nd floor
11th floor
Boston, MA 02115
2nd floor
London E1W 1LP, UK
Talk recording
Responding to and managing infectious disease outbreaks is a persistent challenge. With limited resources, maximizing efficiency and efficacy of these control efforts is essential. Here, I present three examples across an array of systems to demonstrate how we can make better use of management resources, especially in the face of uncertainty. I show that governance structure (i.e., the allocation of resources across geo-political units) can have a significant effect on the equity of epidemiological outcomes, demonstrate an approach for designing control strategies that leverage multiple interventions, and discuss how we can combine predictions from multiple models to better represent uncertainty for planning.