Course Debut! Pandemiology: Epidemic Diseases that Shaped the World, and the Methods Used to Study Them
9-13 November 2026 (5 ECTS)
Address: Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Artillerivej 5, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark (Meeting room at SSI: Jernesalen)
Course overview:
Monday 9 Nov: Introduction to Pandemiology - Lessons from the past
“Introduction to Pandemiology” (Lone Simonsen)
"Why Mathematics and Population-level Thinking Matter in Pandemiology" (Viggo Andreasen)
“Fundamentals of Pandemiology from the SSI Perspective” (Tyra Grove Krause)
"Identifying Signature Features of Epidemic Diseases in 19th Century All-Cause Mortality Data" (Maarten van Wijhe)
"The Evolving HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Risks” (Jens Lundgren)
"A Disease for the Ages: The Story of Tuberculosis” (Eskild Petersen)
Tuesday 10 Nov: COVID-19 - A pandemic in our time
"Evaluating the COVID-19 responses of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, February-June 2020: a counterfactual modeling study" (Jacco Wallinga – to be confirmed)
“Surveillance methods: How to identify and keep track of COVID-19" (Tyra Grove Krause)
"Using blood donor serology to monitor COVID-19 spread, and broader perspectives on sero-epidemiology” (Christian Erikstrup)
"The HOPE project: real-time and human behavioural surveys to strengthen Trust during the COVID-19 pandemic” (Michael Bang Pedersen – to be confirmed)
"SIR modeling: introduction and the case of COVID-19" (TBD)
"Using mathematical modeling of different NPI scenarios to inform COVID-19 policy" (Lasse Engbo Christiansen and Kaare Gr?sb?l)
“Lessons from COVID-19: The importance of super spreading in controlling an outbreak“ (Kim Sneppen – to be confirmed)
“A tutorial in building an agent-based model” (Bjarke Frost Nielsen – to be confirmed)
Special evening seminar: "Infectious disease epidemiology in context: lessons we should have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic" (Mike Osterholm)
Weds 11 Nov: How we model epidemics - Lessons from Smallpox, Mpox, and Cholera
Smallpox: what happened in the past?” (to be confirmed Romola Davenport)
“Compartmental SIR modelling and demographics: the first vaccine program ever" (Andreas Thomas Eilersen – to be confirmed)
“Molecular epidemiology of mpox” (Anders Gorm Pedersen)
“What is happening with mpox? A network model to study its spread in a high-risk network of MSM” (Ulrik Hvid)
“Cholera Historically” (Lone Simonsen, Andreas Eilersen)
"Contemporary Cholera: Ongoing Outbreaks and Challenges in the DRC and Haiti" (Peter Kj?r Mackie Jensen – to be confirmed)
Thurs 12 Nov: Zoonotic Jumps - Molecular epidemiology and One Health approaches
"Overview of assorted One Health issues" (Eskild Petersen)
“Emerging mosquito-borne diseases in Europe: the role of climate change and other important drivers” (René B?dker)
"Bioinformatics and Molecular Epidemiology: What pathogen sequence data tell us?" (Anders Gorm Pedersen)
“Hanta, Ebola, Nipah: case studies in climate-related zoonotic jumps” (Lone Simonsen)
"Disease X surveillance: wastewater monitoring to detect emerging pandemic threats" (Frank Aarestrup)
"Enteroviruses in a post-polio Europe: current situation and threats" (Thea K?lsen Fischer – to be confirmed)
Friday 13 Nov: The Vaccine Equation - Safety, Economics, and Trust
"Vaccines as the solution: what will the future bring?” (to be confirmed)
"Pertussis: The contemporary challenges with pertussis control" (Michael Briga)
“Using registry-based research to study vaccine adverse events” (Anders Peter Hviid)
“Tools of health economics for Pandemiology” (Sangeeta Mookherji)
“Vaccine Financing: current challenges and pandemics” (Ulla Kou Griffiths)g
"Closing Session: The future of Pandemiology: Vaccines, Trust, and Misinformation" (Marc-Alain Widdowson & Stinus Lingreen)