{"id":3611,"date":"2023-05-24T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/?page_id=3611"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:15:48","slug":"webinar-a-step-towards-geographically-targeted-interventions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/en\/events\/webinar-a-step-towards-geographically-targeted-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: A Step Towards Geographically Targeted Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> August 24, 2020<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Online Event<\/p>\n<p>Mosquito infestation indices (breeding site, mosquito abundance, etc.) currently perform poorly in assessing the geographic risk of vector-borne diseases. Finding better measures could have a significant impact on morbidity and mortality from insect-borne diseases that affect millions of people each year.<\/p>\n<p>During our work on designing tools for geographically targeted interventions, we developed a vector index based on vector population dynamics, the intrinsic rate of growth, an index that accounts for population parameters such as fertility rate, density-dependent mortality, and density-independent mortality. We show that the intrinsic growth rate is more robust than the (common) maps of mosquito abundance or occurrence. In addition, the use of the intrinsic growth rate allows the production of dynamic maps that describe the distribution and population dynamics in mosquitoes, adding a new level of information to the classic distribution map of vector-borne diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Our results are promising and for this reason we want to encourage scientific communities (entomologists, epidemiologists, biomathematicians and biostatisticians) and public health managers to analyze the potential use of our methods or similar methods for precision public health, a topic that subscribers on the agenda of major health organizations and funders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br \/>\nLuigi Sedda &#8211; Spatial Epidemiologist &#8211; Lancaster University<br \/>\nDario Brock Ramalho &#8211; Undersecretary of Health Surveillance (MG)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderator:<\/strong><br \/>\nJo\u00e3o Marques &#8211; Department of Biochemistry and Immunology (ICB\/UFMG)<\/p>\n<style>#sp-ea-4452 .spcollapsing { height: 0; overflow: hidden; transition-property: height;transition-duration: 500ms;}#sp-ea-4452.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single {margin-bottom: 10px; border: 1px solid #e2e2e2; }#sp-ea-4452.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single>.ea-header a {color: #444;}#sp-ea-4452.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single>.sp-collapse>.ea-body {background: #fff; color: #444;}#sp-ea-4452.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single {background: #eee;}#sp-ea-4452.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single>.ea-header a .ea-expand-icon { float: left; color: #444;font-size: 16px;}<\/style><div id=\"sp_easy_accordion-1785393991\"><div id=\"sp-ea-4452\" class=\"sp-ea-one sp-easy-accordion\" data-ea-active=\"ea-click\" data-ea-mode=\"vertical\" data-preloader=\"\" data-scroll-active-item=\"\" data-offset-to-scroll=\"0\"><div class=\"ea-card ea-expand sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" id=\"ea-header-44520\" role=\"button\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=\"#collapse44520\" aria-controls=\"collapse44520\" href=\"#\" aria-expanded=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"ea-expand-icon eap-icon-ea-expand-minus\"><\/i> V\u00eddeo <\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse collapsed show\" id=\"collapse44520\" data-parent=\"#sp-ea-4452\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"ea-header-44520\"> <div class=\"ea-body\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCK_b9fSylw?si=cYmbg8tRMpSxwuJO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: August 24, 2020 Location: Online Event Mosquito infestation indices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":805,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3611\/revisions\/4455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}