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Network on modelling and control of comunicable and infectious diseases

Sources of funding: CONICYT-REDES170059

Execution period: 2018-2019

Principal researchers: Pedro Gajardo (Coordinador Chile)

Abstract: The main goal is to consolidate a productive working team and to create durable scientific cooperation between members of the project in Chile (centers AM2V and CMM) and Colombia (center MoBiMat) by generating and fostering strong connections between the areas of dynamical systems, optimal control and optimization in the two centers, especially addressing to epidemiology problems. For this purpose, the scientific cooperation will focus in three main topics:

(1) Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the nonlinear dynamics describing the evolution of communicable or infectious diseases.

(2) Viability theory techniques for computing sustainable objectives for the control of communicable or infectious diseases.

(3) Optimization and cost-effectiveness approach for decision-making aimed at prevention, reduction, and treatment of communicable or infectious diseases

Modeling, Optimization and Viability for Epidemics Control (MOVECO)

Sources of funding: MEAE, CONICYT, CMM-Universidad de Chile, COLCIENCIAS

Execution period: 2018-2019

Principal researchers: Olga Vasilieva (Coordinador Internacional)

Abstract: Communicable and infectious diseases constitute one of the leading causes of illness and death throughout the world. The diversity of infection agents (viruses, bacteria, microbes, etc.) combined with their ability to evolve and adapt to changing host populations, environments, practices, and technologies creates ongoing threats to human health and appeals for more sophisticated policies for disease prevention and control. This project combines the experience and skills of economists, statisticians, medical doctors, healthcare managers, applied mathematicians, and control scientists to propose meaningful mathematical models and to develop new methods (based on optimization and viability approaches) for control of communicable and infectious diseases.