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Dear Colleagues, For information: Introduction to Mathematical Models of the EPIDEMIOLOGY & CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Short Course for Public Health Professionals, since 1990 1-12 September 2008 at Imperial College London Our understanding of infectious-disease epidemiology and control has been greatly increased in recent years through mathematical modelling. Insights from this increasingly-important and exciting field are now informing policymaking at the highest levels, for pandemic influenza, SARS, HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, foot-and-mouth disease and other infections. Since 1990, this short course has 'demystified' mathematical modelling, and kept public-health professionals, policy makers, and medical and veterinary researchers, up-to-date with what they need to know about this fast-moving field. It is taught by active researchers in the world-leading Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research/researchthemes/publicandint/ide <http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research/researchthemes/publicandin t/ide/ohttp:/www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research/researchthemes/public andint/ide> ), which advises public health agencies, governments, international organisations, and pharmaceutical companies, and hosts the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis & Modelling, UNAIDS Epidemiology Reference Group secretariat, Partnership for Child Development, and the Gates Foundation-funded Schistosomiasis Control Initiative that has treated over 12 million children to date in six countries in Africa. Participants need only a very basic mathematical ability (high school level is more than sufficient): most course participants do not use maths regularly, and calculation is done using Excel and the user-friendly modelling package, Berkeley Madonna; hence manipulation of equations is not required. We offer an optional 'maths refresher' day on Sunday 31 August, free of charge. This programme will be of interest worldwide to public health professionals, policy makers, health economists, commissioning agencies, immunologists, medical, veterinary, biological and pharmaceutical scientists. For further details visit the course website www.imperial.ac.uk/cpd/epidemiology/ <http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cpd/epidemiology/ohttp:/www.imperial.ac.uk/cp d/epidemiology/> which includes full information on how to apply for the course. Please download a PDF of the course brochure here: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/31511700.PDF Should you have any queries please don't hesitate to contact me. Best wishes Ulrika Ulrika Wernmark Programme Manager Centre for Professional Development Imperial College London South Kensington Campus 58 Prince's Gate London SW7 2AZ Tel: +44 (0) 207 594 6886 Fax: +44 (0) 207 594 6883 Please visit our website at www.imperial.ac.uk/cpd <http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cpd> P Think before you print.