Epi Think Tank seminars
Epi Think Tank seminars are held on the third Wednesday of each month via Zoom.
To join the Epi Think Tank email list, contact either Mark Stevenson, Simon Firestone, Anke Wiethoelter, Sandra Steele or Caitlin Pfeiffer. Zoom details for each meeting will be distributed via the list.
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Date Time Details 20 May 13.00 AEST Karma Rinzin (Regional Animal Health Coordinator, World Organisation for Animal Health). An update on foot and mouth disease SAT1 in Central and Southeast Asia. 22 Apr 13.00 AEST Melanie Pescadilla (City Veterinarian, Bais, Central Visayas, Philippines) and Sandra Steele (Melbourne Veterinary School). Canine rabies and African swine fever control in the Philippines (m4a). 19 Mar 13.00 AEDT Masood Sujau (EpiCentre, Massey University). Large language models for literature screening (m4a). 19 Mar 14.00 AEDT Mark Stevenson (Melbourne Veterinary School). An additional metric from the 2 × 2 table: the E-value (slides). -
Date Time Details 19 Nov 13.00 AEDT Sim-in Lee (Melbourne Veterinary School). Update on infectious disease modelling work with the Japanese National Institute of Animal Health. 19 Nov 14.00 AEDT Mark Stevenson (Melbourne Veterinary School). Accounting for uncertainty when calculating post-test disease probability estimates. 15 Oct 13.00 AEDT Arata Hidano (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). African swine fever and swine influenza in Cambodia (m4a). 15 Oct 14.00 AEDT Kamal Acharya (Melbourne Veterinary School). Antimicrobial prescribing habits of veterinarians in Canada and Israel (m4a). 17 Sep 13.00 AEST Jennifer Manyweathers (Charles Sturt University). Bayesian approaches for assessment of ASF vulnerability in Vietnam. 17 Sep 14.00 AEST Simon Firestone (Melbourne Veterinary School). Piecewise non-linear mixed effects modelling for Hendra antibody levels in foals following vaccination (m4a). 20 Aug 13.00 AEST Kara Dawson (Livestock Improvement Corporation New Zealand). Report on a Johne's disease and bovine TB fact finding mission to VEERU (University of Reading) and CVERA (University College Dublin). 20 Aug 14.00 AEST Tabita Tan (Charles Sturt University). Understanding Q fever patient experience with illness and diagnosis (slides). 16 Jul 13.00 AEST Robert Sanson (AsureQuality New Zealand). AgriBase New Zealand's spatial farm database (m4a). 16 Jul 14.00 AEST Wes Johnson (University of California). Bayesian methods for biomarker modeling, disease diagnosis, test accuracy estimation, pooled testing and prevalence estimation (m4a and slides). 18 Jun 13.00 AEST Kinley Penjor and Sithar Dorji. Bhutan's response to COVID-19, 2021-2022. 18 Jun 14.00 AEST Sarai Silaban (Melbourne Veterinary School). Surveillance for infectious disease in Aceh and North Sumatra. 21 May 13.00 AEST Thomas Dumond (University of Adelaide). Open-source tools for literature reviews. 21 May 14.00 AEST John Morton (Jemora Pty Ltd). Longetivity in dairy cows: An example of atomistic fallacy. 16 Apr 13.00 AEST Uli Muellner (Epi-interactive). An update on Epi-Interactive data visualisation methodologies. 16 Apr 14.00 AEST Mark Stevenson (Melbourne Veterinary School). Estimation of cattle liveweights in Bhutan. 19 Mar 13.00 AEDT Nagendra Singanallur (ACDP). Sample size estimation for diagnostic test validation studies. 19 Mar 14.00 AEDT Axel Colling (ACDP). WOAH updates on diagnostic test validation
Short courses
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Africa-Asia Bioscience Challenge Fund Workshops on Climate-Smart Livestock Operations, 23 March to 27 March 2026. ACIAR, ILRI, the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability and QAAFI at the University of Queensland and SAFES and the Melbourne Veterinary School at the University of Melbourne, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Fleming Fund AMROH-SEA Country Workshop: AMR/U Surveillance Data Analysis and Reporting, 2 February to 6 February, National Animal Health Laboratory, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
Fleming Fund AMROH-SEA Country Workshop: iSIKHNAS Treatment Data Training, 26 January to 30 January 2026, Ministry of Agriculture, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Africa-Asia Bioscience Challenge Fund Workshops on Climate-Smart Livestock Operations, 19 January to 23 January 2026. ACIAR, ILRI, the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability and QAAFI at the University of Queensland and SAFES and the Melbourne Veterinary School at the University of Melbourne, Nairiobi, Kenya.
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Graduate Researcher and Clinician Biostatistics Training, 14 November and 21 November 2025. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Fleming Fund Fellowship Training - Veterinary Epidemiology Stream, 21 July to 28 August 2025. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Fleming Fund Fellowship Training - Veterinary Epidemiology Stream, 3 February to 14 February 2025. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
An Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology, 21 January to 24 January 2025. Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia Chile.
An Introduction to R, University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
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Building Better Causal Evidence using Directed Acyclic Graphs, 18 November to 22 November 2024. University of Technology, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia.
Enhancing Surveillance of Antimicrobial Usage and Resistance in Animal and Environmental Health Across Southeast Asia, 14 October to 18 October 2024. Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Strengthening Capacity for Risk Mapping of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Indonesia, 2 September to 6 September 2024, 21 October to 25 October 2024. FAO Jakarta, Indonesia.
Agriculture Victoria - EpiReady Training, 29 April to 2 May 2024. Agriculture Victoria, Attwood, Victoria 3049, Australia.
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Fleming Fund Fellowship Training - Veterinary Epidemiology Stream, 14 August to 25 August 2023. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Weighing the Evidence, 28 June 2023. EFAB Annual Conference of the New Zealand Veterinary Association, Wellington, New Zealand.
APCOVE Fellowship Training - Vietnam, 29 May to 9 June 2023. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Epi in the Valley 2023: Building Better Causal Evidence using Directed Acyclic Graphs, 22 to 26 May 2023. Epi in the Valley 2023, Old Noarlunga, South Australia.
Fleming Fund Fellowship Training - Veterinary Epidemiology Stream, 3 March to 9 March 2023,. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
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Fleming Fund Fellowship Training - Veterinary Epidemiology Stream, 18 July to 26 July 2022. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, 20 June 2022. EFAB Annual Conference of the New Zealand Veterinary Association, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Fleming Fund Fellowship Training - Veterinary Epidemiology Stream, 28 April to 10 May 2022. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Melbourne Veterinary School Dairy Residents Biostatistics Course, 17 to 18 January 2022. The University of Melbourne, Werribee Victoria 3030, Australia.
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Social Network Analysis and its Application in Animal Health, 2 November 2021, 9 November 2021 and 16 November 2021, APQA Seoul, Korea.
Strengthening Capacity for Risk Mapping of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Indonesia, 24 February to 10 March 2021, 17 March to 1 April 2021, 19 May to 24 June 2021. FAO Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Fleming Fund Fellowship Training - Veterinary Epidemiology Stream, 10 to 22 February 2020. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
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2019
Outbreak Reconstruction, Parameter Inference and Simulation, 27 November 2019. Department of Agriculture, Canberra Australia.
Simulation of the Spread of Vector-Borne Disease in Domestic Livestock Populations, 4 to 8 November 2019. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Explaining Spatial Point Patterns in Animal Health, 11 to 12 October 2019. University of California, Davis, California, USA.
An Introduction to the Use of Survival Analysis in Animal Health, 12 to 16 August 2019. FAO Hanoi, Vietnam.
An Introduction to the Use of Logistic Regression in Animal Health, 5 to 9 August 2019. FAO Hanoi, Vietnam.
Strengthening Capacity for Risk Mapping of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Indonesia, 18 to 22 February 2019, 11 to 14 March 2019, 29 April to 1 May 2019, 13 to 15 May 2019 and 17 to 21 June 2019. FAO Jakarta, Indonesia.
Epi in the Vineyard 2019: Interpretation and Validation of Diagnostic Tests in Veterinary Science, 18 to 22 March 2019. Yarra Valley, Victoria Australia.
2018
ISVEE15 2018 Post-conference workshop: Interpretation and Validation of Diagnostic Tests in Veterinary Science, 17 to 19 November 2018. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
OIE Sub-Regional Training on Applying GIS for Advanced Spatial Analysis of Animal Health Data, 16 to 19 October 2018. World Organisation for Animal Health, Bangkok, Thailand.
A Short Course on Fixed- and Mixed-Effects Regression Modelling for Veterinarians, 30 July 2018 to 2 August 2018. Department of Animal Health, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Foundations in Infectious Disease Modelling, 2 to 4 July 2018. Annual Meeting of the Epidemiology Chapter of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists, Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
Melbourne Veterinary School Residents Biostatistics Course, 26 April 2018. The University of Melbourne, Werribee Victoria 3030, Australia.
A Short Course on Multilevel Modelling, 9 to 13 April 2018. Epi in the Valley 2018, University of Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland.
Spatial Point Pattern Analysis using spatstat, 3 to 5 Sept 2018. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
2017
Melbourne Veterinary School Early Career Researcher Biostatistics Course, 30 Nov to 1 Dec 2017. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
OIE Sub-Regional Training on the use of GIS to Strengthen Animal Disease Surveillance and Control, 9 to 11 October 2017. World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Sub-Regional Representation for Southeast Asia, Bangkok, Thailand.
An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling for Veterinarians, 2 to 5 October 2017. Department of Veterinary Services, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Epi in the Vineyard 2017: Quantitative Bias Analysis and Missing Data, 3 to 7 April 2017. Tanunda, South Australia.
2016
Dogs and People: Mastering Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Impacts, 3 December 2016. The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Animal Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control Center of Shandong Province, China, 25 November 2016. The University of Melbourne, Werribee Victoria 3030, Australia.
Spatial Epidemiology 2.0 - From Addresses and Polygons to Interactive Dashboards, 4 to 6 July 2016. The Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Sciences, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Multilevel Modelling in Veterinary and Agricultural Science, 29 March to 1 April 2016. Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
Outbreak Response and Decision Making: Foot-and-Mouth Disease Workshop, 20 February 2015. Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia.
2012
Regional Workshop on Training of Trainers on Disease Risk Analysis and Risk Management, 7 to 11 January 2012. FAO Kathmandu, Nepal.