Quick guide to what effect HIV interventions have been having in Africa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2f8FmR4u1A
Online courses
There are many free online courses for those wishing to learn more about mathematical modelling - whether that is understanding modelling analyses and results, or learning to code a model from scratch.
These include:
- Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
- Mathematical Models Matter: A Course for Advocates, AVAC
- Infectious Disease Modelling, Imperial College London (hosted by Coursera)
- Epidemics - the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Pennsylvania State University (hosted by Coursera)
- Epidemics, University of Hong Kong (hosted by Coursera)
- EpiModel tutorials: https://www.epimodel.org/tut.html
- An introduction to individual-based models in epidemiology, and to inform health policy Andrew Phillips (lecture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwkcut56kro or https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/5G0ag7CC
- Web-based tutorial in building individual-based models using Python https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fH0qKeLpvSRBNEePDYS9eaet4qJCQBOvr9kbJlyJVq4/edit?usp=sharing or https://www.tlomodel.org/ibm_course.html#ibm-course
- Online resources to help absolute beginners to modelling get the concepts of random number generation, distributions and calibration:
- Random number generation and distributions - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ycZxq9s0Pi7C7p9KIvgHe1EnBBI2diJM?usp=sharing
- Calibration - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YQMUkvG0da25-kuaR6hRJ3rTBGFIyQTF?usp=sharing
- Uncertainty - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ejKT1l0FWb_hO-qnuwC_ca6b8jOPtTrM?usp=sharing
The HIV Modelling Consortium is not affiliated with some of these courses. If you would like to add a free teaching resource to this page then please contact us at: andrew.phillips@ucl.ac.uk.