Wirichada Pan-ngum

The overall interventions added to the baseline model are making sense. Based on the lecture on intervention study, I think you should think how these interventions can be incorporated into the model e.g. would you just adjust the related parameter value? or do you need to add some extra compartments? The important note is how to make it as simple…[Read more]

Let’s try to declare next the scenarios that we want to explore in this model regarding the home isolation. I believe the code can run. Let’s learn more about its behaviour.

Ok. it is a good baseline malaria model. Now think about what you want to explore, population movement. How does it change the structure? Let’s just assume a net constant of people coming into the system. If they coming as S alone, what happens? If they come in as S and R (assuming not sick of malaria), what happens? And if they come in as S, I…[Read more]

Hi Ching, Does it run through in R? I think it is not important if the code is not working right now. So for your project, what questions do you want to answer and how do you want to modify this structure? Once we are clear on this we can adjust the structure and we can try to code in R. If it is too complicated at the moment, I think it may be…[Read more]

Pyae, it would be good to try coding this in R and see if you can produce some graph results. No need to try to do model fitting or validation at the moment. Just run the model to get the sense of how changing each parameter affects the model output.

Apart from suicide I think other topics are ok for the infectious disease modelling so I suggest you find some 1-2 relevant modelling papers (try to stick to the simple model in some public health journal, rather than mathematics journals). See if you agree with the model structure, can it be simpler or it should be more complicated…it is up to…[Read more]

First of all, suicide is not infectious disease and so it is not quite the kind of model we use in this course here. The questions proposed would mostly be answered from statistical analysis. The model we learn here is mechanistic, describing the disease progression. Maybe you want to choose an infectious disease?

Although some people might not have direct involvement in COVID-19 pandemic from their job. We are all citizen affected from the pandemic. By complying with the government’s strategies, self-care and care to the family or being considerate with some communications on social media etc…these are all very important contribution to the effective…[Read more]

Agreed. Simple is the best for communicating, isn’t it. It is applied to all disciplines I think!

Good to hear from you, Toby. It has been great to learn many aspects of Hong Kong health informatics from you. Thanks!

I don’t know if you feel the same that this discussion group can benefit tremendously from having students from different countries. My BHI mission is now to recruit students from various parts of the world and we can all learn even more.. good stuff here.

No right no wrong, by discussing these things together we can learn to respect people’s opinion…well done.

Great discussions, thanks.

We unavoidably face ‘bigger’ data everyday so it is good to be aware of all these challenges and share some solutions. Thanks all of you for your great contribution to the discussion.

Good discussions on corruption and very encouraging to see the great awareness on this topic among yourselves, who drive one country’s healthcare in the future!

Wouldn’t it be a good idea if one BHI student could do the project on collecting the evidence of impacts on these changes of hospital’s administrative system in our country!

Great discussions on different challenges in health systems here. Thanks for sharing experiences and opinions in this topic.

I am glad to see all your comments which clearly showed your self-reflection and intention to improve the listening skill. It is good to recognise that we are all different and nobody is perfect. Missing the details, missing the big picture or missing subtle cues can all happen to us…so be patient when work together!

Thanks all for sharing your thoughts and some action plans. Taking the balance between caring for yourself and caring for others is what I have been trying to do. I have finished the ‘effective listening’ https://www.linkedin.com/learning/effective-listening/improve-your-listening-skills?u=91782594 which I found enjoyable. It has the components of…[Read more]

Some good literatures on this:

Cousien A, Tran VC, Deuffic-Burban S, Jauffret-Roustide M, Dhersin JS, Yazdanpanah Y. Dynamic modelling of hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs: a methodological review. J Viral Hepat. 2015 Mar;22(3):213-29. doi: 10.1111/jvh.12337. Epub 2014 Oct 1. PMID: 25270261.

Fraser H, Mukandavire C,…[Read more]