The road ahead
Over the coming months, we hope you will join us and provide feedback on the proposed mission, values, and strategic goals for the GSIDD. This society belongs to all of us, and your input is essential to ensure it meets the diverse needs of researchers, practitioners, and educators worldwide. We don't anticipate us being a traditional professional society with a journal and annual meeting (at least not yet). There is an entire ecosystem that already exists within the modeling
Listen & learn
As we develop GSIDD, we want to ensure that our approach is grounded in the needs and perspectives of our community. But with a global field as diverse as infectious disease dynamics, how do we gather meaningful input without overlooking critical voices? Our answer: start by consulting with the organizations that already serve our community. Why Organizations? We focused our initial outreach on networks, consortia, and other multi-institutional organizations within the infect
How we got here
Founding Committee members at the first discussion of the global community. From left most and clockwise around the table: Eric Mooring, Valerie Isham (University College London), Cécile Tran Kiem (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center), Elizabeth Lee (Johns Hopkins University), Wirichada Pan-ngum (Mahidol University), Hans Heesterbeek (Utrecht University), Matt Keeling (University of Warwick), Emma McBryde (University of Queensland), James McCaw (University of Melbourne), Shweta Ba