MISMS Regional Meetings and Technical Workshops

The Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS) organizes hands-on training workshops at NIH and with global partners.

Workshop Objectives

• Review the state of knowledge of influenza epidemiology and evolution
• Disease burden
• Transmission
• Vaccine
• Evolution
• Seasonality
• Analyze data through a hands-on workshop on advanced methods of quantitative analysis
• Time-series analysis (R, EPIPOI, etc.)
• Disease modeling
• Reproductive numbers
• Phylogenetic analysis (BEAST)
• Establish new collaborations for binational and multinational studies

Target Audience

• Virologists interested in learning phylogenetic analyses to study genetic surveillance data
• Public health officials, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians interested in estimating the seasonality and burden of influenza-related disease
• Veterinarians studying influenza in non-human hosts (birds, pigs, horses, dogs, bats, etc.)

Meeting Length

Workshops are typically three to five days, including one to two days of scientific research presentations and two to three days hands-on training workshop led by the MISMS scientific staff.

Data

While we strongly recommend that participants bring their own data, software and sample datasets created by the MISMS team are distributed freely to workshop participants prior to the meeting.

Contact MISMS

For additional information about MISMS workshops and training opportunities, or to be added to the MISMS listserv, please email the MISMS team at ficmisms@mail.nih.gov.

Past Meetings and Workshops

• MinION
  February 6 - 8, 2020
  Santa Marta, Colombia
• MISMS
  December 3 - 5, 2018
  Johannesburg, South Africa
• MISMS Meeting Africa
  November 13 - 17, 2017
  Antananarivo, Madagascar
  Held in conjunction with the 6th meeting of the African Network for Influenza Surveillance and Epidemiology
• MISMS
  November 7 - 10, 2016
  Bethesda, Maryland
• MISMS
  October 13 - 15, 2015
  Taipei, Taiwan
• MISMS
  June 30 - July 3, 2014
  Bethesda, Maryland
• MISMS
  February 25 - March 1, 2013
  Padua, Italy
• MISMS Latin America Meeting and Training Workshop
  June 25 - 28, 2012
  Lima, Peru
• MISMS South Asia Meeting and Training Workshop
  August 9 - 13, 2011
  Kathmandu, Nepal
• MISMS China Training Workshop
  August 2 - 6, 2011
  Beijing, China
  Part of the Symposium on Influenza and Other Respiratory Infections.
• MISMS Interdisciplinary Workshop on Influenza Virus Evolution, Immunity and Epidemiology
  June 7 - 8, 2011
  Washington, DC
• MISMS Denmark Meeting and Workshop
  May 3 - 7, 2010
  Copenhagen, Denmark
• MISMS Oceania Meeting and Workshop
  March 15 - 19, 2010
  Melbourne, Australia
• IDEA Meeting and Workshop
  June 24 - 26, 2009
  Washington, DC
• MISMS Africa Meeting and Workshop
  April 21 - 25, 2009
  Dakar, Senegal
• MISMS Europe Meeting and Workshop
  September 17 - 20, 2008
  Vilamoura, Portugal
• MISMS Asia Meeting and Workshop
  August 13 - 15, 2007
  Hanoi, Vietnam
• MISMS Americas Meeting and Workshop
  February 5 - 9, 2007
  Buenos Aires, Argentina