This conference was held at the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston, MA from December 9-10, 2019 in conjunction with the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A select group of diverse undergraduate students interested in mathematical modeling and infectious diseases attended and had the opportunity to learn from experts in the field.
Presenters at this conference included MIDAS members Marc Lipsitch, Shweta Bansal, Rachel Slayton, Mauricio Santillana , Guido España, Pamela Martinez, Tigist Menkir, and Wilbert van Panhuis, as well as Gloria Kang, Xueting Qui, Tufail Malik, and Stephen Kissler.