Agent-based modelling in public health: from playground to planet
Agent-Based Models (ABMS) are artificial societies of individual software people whose interactions generate large-scale social patterns—of violence, of inequality, and of disease.

Epstein is a recognised pioneer in this method. In the sphere of Public Health, he has used ABMs to model pandemics from the 1918 Spanish Flu, to Bioterror Smallpox, to Ebola, to COVID-19. With stunning animations, he will demonstrate his modelling on scales ranging from a children’s school playground to the 6.5 billon agent planetary-scale model funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Throughout, he will emphasize the role of human behaviour in shaping epidemic dynamics, including the problematic multiple waves observed in historical pandemics and most recently, in COVID-19.

This is a joint event with INET Oxford

To register to attend in-person: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/agent-based-modelling
To register to attend online: www.crowdcast.io/c/agent-based-modelling
Date: 6 February 2024, 17:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and online)
Speaker: Professor Joshua M. Epstein (New York University)
Organising department: Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Martin School Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/agent-based-modelling/
Audience: Public
Editor: Hannah Mitchell