[Population Modeling] Population Modelling by Examples II

Mon May 9 16:56:21 PDT 2016

Thanks Ayaz. I think adding a new column is a great suggestion (but I'll keep the existing one, as removing it would eliminate at least one person altogether). I'll assume this is okay with the authors involved unless I hear otherwise.

(I assume you want to be in the new column yourself? I've added you, as it seems to fit with your influenza work, but let me know if not.)

Cheers,

 - Robert Smith?
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Hi All
Sorry for the late reply. I would suggest another category “Epidemiology/Public Health/Health Services Research”, under which one could classify research by Bruce Lee, Carl Asche, Sixten Borg, and Tracy Comans. I think this is a better categorization than “risk assessment” and “resource planning”, which the above mentioned authors’s work is currently categorized under. This is merely a suggestion and those mentioned above have final say about their work’s categorization.

Also, please replace the paragraph about the kinds of models I work on as below. Based on the new text below, I would also classify my work under the following categories for the table: resource planning/allocation, testing theory and risk assessment.

New text for my paragraph: Determinants of human health — environment, social, biology— operate at multiple levels (individual, neighborhood, regional). We use systems science thinking and computational epidemiology methods to bring together theory, data and methods from multiple disciplines. This has applications in satellite-based air pollution exposure assessment and birth outcomes [27], predictive validation of agent-based models for influenza [28], testing hypothesis regarding social deprivation and burden of influenza [29], and modeling the natural history of esophageal cancer with a cost-effectiveness analysis [Ref., see below].

Hyder, Ayaz. “Development and validation of a microsimulation model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of innovative screening and surveillance for early detection of esophageal cancer” The 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. SMDM, 2014.

Summary of methods (for the table): Agent-based models, microsimulation models, cost-effectiveness analysis, population health modeling, computational exposure science.

Thanks

Ayaz Hyder, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, Translational Data Analytics
College of Public Health, The Ohio State University
614-247-4936 | http://cph.osu.edu/people/ahyder

On May 9, 2016, at 5:18 PM, Tracy Comans <t.comans at griffith.edu.au<mailto:t.comans at griffith.edu.au>> wrote:

Hi Sixten and all,

Great ideas.

Here is my bit for the table Robert

Discrete Event Simulation of health services and cost-effectiveness analysis

Tracy

Dr Tracy Comans
Principal Research Fellow in Health Economics
Metro North Hospital  and Health Service District and
Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
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On 9 May 2016 at 23:33, SIXTEN BORG <sixten.borg at med.lu.se<mailto:sixten.borg at med.lu.se>> wrote:
Hi Valerie, all,

I think your edits make very good sense. Regarding the category "resource planning" -  I usually describe this as "resource allocation" although I do like resouce planning too since it gives you a feeling of planning ahead whereas resource allocation is perhaps not as forward looking? Anyway I suggest we pick a category name that most people belonging there feel comfortable with (currently listed: Santos, Borg, Asche, Ma, Forbes, Comans)

I seem to find that Yifei Ma's work could belong to the category Disease spread. Santos model population growth which would be central in resource planning, I agree. The work of Borg, Asche, Coman seem relatively applied (and close to descisions on how to organized care) whereas Ma's description appear to start out theoretically but then seems applied in modelling US influenza scenarios.
How about organizing the text/listing of people and their work according to categories like you suggest Valerie (these being the most pronounced category of each person's work), and then we could have a table with {the people} x {the categories} where more than one category could be checked for each individual person's work? E.g. I might argue my work also slightly belong to the category predicting drug effects but not at all as pronounced as the category resource planning (or possibly resource allocation).

In case anyone likes the idea, I drafted a table like that (attached). I added a column with a brief summary of methods (myself as an example). This table is an attempt to do what the first reviewer asked for - directions/guiding principles. Any comments?

Kind regards
Sixten

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Hi Robert and All,

Please see my comments on the attached. It seems to me that the contributions group according to several general themes (see my sticky notes), so possibly reordering them and grouping them under the themes may address the reviewer concerns. It also might make the structure a bit more logical. Just a thought.

Many thanks for your efforts on this.

Best regards,

Valery

Valery E. Forbes

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University of Minnesota

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On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Robert Smith? <rsmith43 at uottawa.ca<mailto:rsmith43 at uottawa.ca>> wrote:
This is to everyone involved in the overview paper on population modelling by examples.

Time is short for the review process. We have a week to restructure the paper according to the comments of the two reviewers.

I'm happy to take the lead, but I can't do it all on my own. I'm particularly looking for some help with addressing the comments from Review #1. So I need some volunteers to help.

I also don't have the email addresses of most of you, so please email me at rsmith43 at uottawa.ca<mailto:rsmith43 at uottawa.ca> and we can divvy up the work. I'm an excellent editor, so your inputs can be rough, but I need some ideas. With so many of us, we should be able to put our heads together, but I do need help.

Thanks,

 - Robert Smith?
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