Recent & Upcoming Talks

2022

Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of life, and several policies have been implemented to lessen the impacts of the …

Mar 28, 2022 10:15 AM APPAM 2021, Austin, Texas

Pedro Nascimento de Lima

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2021

Informing COVID-19 Policy Under Uncertainty

Nov 29, 2021 9:00 AM DMDU 2021 Webinar Series

Pedro Nascimento de Lima

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Towards Modeling Infectious Behaviors

Changes in behaviors are often acknowledged as a major source of uncertainty in infectious disease modeling work, and there is an …

Nov 19, 2021 10:00 AM MIDAS Webinar

Raffaele Vardavas, Pedro Nascimento de Lima

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A Primer on Robust Decision Making for Health Policy

In this presentation, I introduced RDM to CISNET Junior Investigators and presented our RDM work.

Nov 11, 2021 8:30 AM CISNET Annual Meeting

Pedro Nascimento de Lima

Reopening California - Seeking Robust, Non-Dominated COVID-19 Exit Strategies

Amid global scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines and the threat of new variant strains, California and other jurisdictions face the question …

May 12, 2021 2:00 PM MIDAS Annual Conference

Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Robert Lempert, Raffaele Vardavas, Lawrence Baker, Jeanne Ringel, Carolyn M. Rutter, Jonathan Ozik, Nicholson Collier

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2020

Seeking Robust COVID-19 Response and Adaptation Strategies

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first confirmed in the United States on January 19th, 2020, when a man in a Snohomish …

Nov 10, 2020 1:00 PM — Nov 13, 2020 3:00 PM DMDU Society 2020 Annual Meeting

Pedro Nascimento de Lima, David Groves, Robert Lempert, Raffaelle Vardavas, Lawrence Baker, Carlos Calvo-Hernandez

Comparing COVID-19 Epidemiological Outcomes For Nonpharmaceutical Interventions In The U.S.

We have developed a COVID-19 disease transmission model to help policymakers compare epidemiological outcomes of different …

Nov 7, 2020 1:00 PM — Nov 13, 2020 3:00 PM INFORMS 2020

Raffaelle Vardavas, Pedro Nascimento de Lima

COVID-19 and Deep Uncertainty

In this webinar, we discuss our work on modeling COVID-19 and how COVID-19 deep uncertainties can be addressed with the RDM approach.

Jun 8, 2020 12:00 AM 2020 DMDU Webinar Series

David Groves, Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Raffaelle Vardavas

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