COMPUTE seminar: Frank Krauss, Introducing JUNE - an open-source epidemiological simulation

Frank’s group constructed a detailed digital twin of the UK population, with supreme social and geographical granularity, representing 55 million residents in England and Wales and tracing their daily movements and activities. The infection is propagated through the virtual population through simulated social contacts, and the progress of the disease in infected individuals and their trajectory through the healthcare system is then simulated, based on public health data. They resolve the spatio-temporal development of the disease spread through the population in great detail and are able to find non-trivial correlations of infection and fatality rates with a variety of societal factors. The model has been proven in the midst of the current crisis and is currently being used by NHS-England’s COVID-19 response team to inform their strategic and operational planning.

More information on the speaker: https://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/profile/krauss

Zoom link:

https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/68889512296?pwd=dEFVK0RCSlpCZFBDWmZ5T2lkdzQvUT09