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Past events

Short courses

From the most recent to the oldest, here are our short courses and training workshops:

  • ESCAIDE 2019 workshop 2 short courses in parallel, 2 days before ESCAIDE, 25-26 November 2019, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Introduction to outbreak response analytics using R with WHO Afro, 10-14 December 2018, Cotonou, Bénin

  • ESCAIDE 2018 pre-workshop: 2 days short course giving an introdution to outbreak response analytics using R, 19-20 November 2018, Malta

  • outbreak analysis in Sofia: 4 days short course giving an introduction to epidemiological case studies and outbreak response analytics; 8-11 October 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria

  • introduction to infectious disease modelling, 21-23 May 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa

  • 3-days training in early outbreak assessment, influenza group, 10-12 April 2018 CDC Atlanta, USA

  • 1 week short course Bogota, epidemics analysis and modelling, 11-15 December 2017, Bogota, Colombia

  • Epidemics6 pre-workshop, outbreak analytics, 28 November 2017, Sitges, Spain

RECON Hackfests

RECON Hackfests continue the process initiated during the Hackout events: bringing people together to make new advances in the development of tools for outbreak response.

  • Hackfest 3: SitReps and Case Studies (2018, Malta): 2 days interactive workshop where participants can bring their data, problems and questions, and go back home with a customised case study or sitrep, using state-of-the art analysis tools.

  • Hackfest 2 (2017, London): mapping epidemics

  • Hackfest 1 (2017, London): making outbreak analysis easier and prettier

The Hackouts series

RECON has been created in the aftermath of Hackouts 1, 2, and 3, a series of Hackathons for infectious disease outbreak analysis. To know more about these events, follow any of the links below:

  • Hackout 1 (2013, London): a hackathon for outbreak analysis using R

  • Hackout 2: G.R.I.N.D.E.R. (2015, London): Graphical Resources for Infectious Disease Epidemiology in R

  • Hackout 3 (2016, Berkeley): analysis and modelling tools for emergency outbreak response

Other events

These events include large meetings, general assemblies, symposiums and conferences.

  • RECON gathering 1 (2018, London): Challenges and Opportunities in Outbreak Response Analytics; this event includes a one-day symposium followed by a day of workshops with 2 parallel sessions: i) a discussion of analytic resources for field epidemiology training, and ii) a community-driven hackathon.