Annual Meeting - Health Modelling & Forecasting
Thursday 23rd January 2025 | The Alan Turing Institute
Information
Join us for the first SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting, focussing on Health Modelling & Forecasting!
This full-day event will bring together experts in a range of fields from industry, academia, and government to discuss cutting-edge research and explore collaborative opportunities within health.
Meeting participants will:
Network with policy specialists and data scientists to discuss issues through a common language
Identify forecasting contests that the SPHERE-PPL Community will undertake, and contribute to the design and outcomes of these endeavours to maximise their impact.
Prioritise the training and support provided by SPHERE-PPL to the community to expedite the development of analytical capabilities where they are most urgently required
This event and the subsequent forecasting contests have been funded by The Alan Turing Institute. For more information, please email info@sphere-ppl.org.
Resources
The presentations & activities can be found here.
The event report can be found here.
Registration
Registration for this event is now closed. To be added to the waiting list, please email info@sphere-ppl.org with your details and why you would like to attend.
Attendance is free but participation is limited to 50 in-person attendees, with an application required (there is no limit on the number of subsequent forecasting contest participants). We will email successful applicants in early December. Attendance is not limited by sector, discipline, background, or career stage. If you use data to ask questions about health, disease, or healthcare operations, this meeting is for you!
After this event, we will organise a series of follow-up on-line events to kick-off the forecasting contests and provide training in forecasting. More details will be shared at the meeting and afterwards on-line: if you can’t make the meeting, join the mailing list to join in!
Agenda (subject to change)
| Timings | Activity | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00 | Arrivals & Registration | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Introduction from the SPHERE-PPL Team | Meet the team and an introduction to the vision |
| 10:15-10:40 | Keynote 1 - Dr Hannah Rose Vineer | One Health Vector-Bourne Disease Hub |
| 10:40-11:00 | Keynote 2 - Dr Richard Wood | Insights from Modelling & Analytics within the NHS |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Break-Out Discussion | Identifying key challenges in health policy |
| 12:15-12:45 | Break-Out Feedback | 2-minute presentations on challenges |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45-13:55 | Presentation | Building a Forecasting Contest |
| 13:55-14:30 | Break-Out Design | Groups design forecasting contests |
| 14:30-15:00 | Break-Out Feedback | Group feedback and discussion of contest priorities |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30-15:40 | Presentation | What can SPHERE-PPL do for you? |
| 15:40-16:00 | Break-Out Discussion | Brainstorming requests for workshops, training and support |
| 16:00-16:30 | Break-Out Feedback | Creating a community priority list |
| 16:30-17:00 | Wrap-Up |
Organising Committee
Dr Josh Tyler (The Alan Turing Institute)
Dr Will Pearse (Imperial College London)
Dr Ettie Unwin (University of Bristol)
Dr Seth Flaxman (University of Oxford)
Ruth Drysdale (The Alan Turing Institute)
Getting Here
Full Address: The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
See the Turing Website for details of transport to the Institute: How to get to the Turing