Rebecca Borchering - Informing short term forecasts of categorical trends in confirmed influenza hospital admissions in the US using real-time effective reproduction number estimates

On Wednesday the 6th of December at 3pm UK time Rebecca Borchering will be talking about “Informing short term forecasts of categorical trends in confirmed influenza hospital admissions in the US using real-time effective reproduction number estimates”.

Rebecca Borchering is a Mathematical Statistician leading influenza modeling and forecasting efforts, such as the FluSight influenza forecasting collaboration, in the Applied Research and Modeling Team in the Influenza Division of the US Centers for Disease Control. They were a founding member of the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub and have experience modeling infectious disease dynamics in multiple pathogen systems. Rebecca was also part of a team that recently published a CDC technical blog on improving the CDC’s tool for assessing epidemic growth. For more on their work see here for their published research.

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