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Group Projects Overview

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MMED 2025

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Project Groups

  1. Value of wastewater surveillance for controlling outbreaks in prisons and other congregate settings: Seth (Mia, Stephen, Jemma, Sophy, Emmanuel) Venue: Main Hall
  2. Pandemic Flu in South Africa (1918-1919): Cari, Jeremy (Kgothatso, Amukelani, Gift, Morongwa, Maxwel). Venue: Computer lab
  3. HIV fitting: Reshma (Armand, George, Evidence, Mofoka, Tammara). Venue: Main Hall
  4. Exploring the influence of the extrinsic incubation period on malaria transmission: Joe (Olivier, Habtamu, Kimberly, Fidaa, Sandile) Venue: Computer lab
  5. Measles Immunity Estimation: CarL, Stanley (Sylvia, Arrah, Chido, Armel, Dean) Venue: Computer lab
  6. Accelerating Rabies Elimination: Mutono, Martha (Alice, Mokgosi, Zizipo, Mabushe, Omar, Rachel) Venue: Computer lab
  7. Enhancing trachoma elimination: Jonathan (Thatohatsi, Comfort, Hosea, Saiusha, Nonkoliso) Venue: Library
  8. Modelling the relationship between age and infection probability in insect vectors of disease: John (Tlamelo, Mercy, Shadé, Georgia, Davryn) Venue: Library

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Please invite us to the Github repositories: @dushoff, @sblumberg, @mutono

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Project report

  • Each groups should submit a written report on the group’ progress by 27th June, 2025 at 12:30pm.
  • Reports should be 6-10 pages (not more)
  • Reports should include:
    • Brief introduction: State your research question/s, describe the data (if available), and outline your approach
    • Methods: Give a detailed account of your methods, including statistical and dynamical modelling. Also describe what you know about how the data were collected, including who collected the data and for what purpose. Include a link to your code repository in this section

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Project report

    • Results:  Describe your results to date. Include tables and figures, as appropriate.
    • Issues - Describe any obstacles you’ve encountered, your attempts to overcome them, and what your next steps would be to address these problems.
    • Plans - Do you intend to continue further with the project, and to pursue publication? If so, what are your anticipated next steps?
    • Contributions - Describe the contributions of each group member to the progress you’ve made to date (eg, who did what parts of the analysis, who wrote which sections, etc). Group members should agree on reported contributions.
  • Report should be submitted to reports@ici3d.org as a single PDF document.
  • All code should be in the Github repo and a link to it included in the report.
  • The presentation should include the sections outlined in the report

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Project presentations

  • All group members are expected to be at the front and contribute to the presentation

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  • You will have 10 minutes to present and 2 minutes for questions and comments

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