Beyond Ebola: Lessons for Mitigating Future Pandemics
Carlos Castillo-Chavez1
Regents Professor, Director
Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center Tempe, AZ 85287-1904, USA
Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh
Monday, November 9, 2015
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Steven Strogatz. The Real Scientific Hero of 1953. New York Times (1923-Current file), page 1, 2003.
Three ways of doing science brought by James D. Watson and Francis Crick & the inventors of the computer experiment: Enrico Fermi, John Pasta and Stanislaw Ulam.
The computer experiment offered a third way of doing science.
Data Science (Big Data) is the fourth way of doingDraft science Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 2 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
Enrico Fermi, John Pasta and Stanislaw Ulam – in 1953 invented the concept of a "computer experiment.
"... the most important lesson ...is how feeble even the best minds are at grasping the dynamics of large, nonlinear systems. Faced with a thicket of interlocking feedback loops, where everything affects everything else, our familiar ways of thinking fall apart. To solve the most important problems of our time, we’re going to have to change the way we do science." NYT 2003, S. Strogatz Draft Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 3 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
Training of Mathematical Scientists for the 21st Century
“... As Fermi and his colleagues taught us, a complex system like cancer can’t be understood merely by cataloging its parts and the rules governing their interactions. The nonlinear logic of cancer will be fathomed only through the collaborative efforts of molecular biologists.” (Strogatz, 2003). The world’s ability to train 21st century mathematical scientists must rely on models of learning and thinking embedded within interdisciplinary educational research/mentorship models. Mathematical scientists must become proficient on multiple models of doing science including the systematic use of computer experiments and in data science. Draft Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 4 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
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Oak Ridge NaTonal Laboratory - June 6, 2013 Cray-made Titan – the fastest computer in the world China announces faster computer Milky –Way 2 on June 17, 2013
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A Brief History Block of Mathematical Epidemiology
The field was the result of the work of medical doctors - mathematical scientists Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932) Anderson G. McKendrick (1876–1943) William O. Kermack (1898–1970)
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www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1902/ross-bio.html
www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/
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The mathematical theory of infectious diseases started by medical doctors
Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932)
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Basic Malaria Model The Life–cycle of malaria parasites Ross-Macdonald Model x : Proportion of infected humans y : Proportion of infected mosquitoes dx = ab M y (1 x) rx dt N dy = ax (1 y) µy dt Parameter Definition Units M N Number of female mosquitoes per human host 1 a Biting rate on a human per mosquito day b Infected mosquito to human transmission efficiency 1 r Per capita human recovery rate day 1 µ Per capita mortalityDraft rate of mosquitos day Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez 9 / 65 Table: The parameters for the VL modelSimon and A. their Levin Modeling dimensions Center Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
Basic Reproductive Number for Malaria
2 Biological interpretation 2 ma b 2 is the number of secondary cases = R0 0 µr of infection on hosts or vectors R generated by a single infective host or infective vector.
a – number of bites per unit time b – infected bites that produce an infection M m = N – number of female mosquitoes per human host 1 r – duration of infection in human 1 – lifetime of a mosquito µ Draft Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 10 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
Holistic Perspective on Malaria
How can we use what we learned from person to vector to person or vector to host to vector transmission at higher levels of organization?
Holistic view - Public good: Can malaria be controlled at higher levels of organization?
Problem across scales: how do we use knowledge at the individual level to understand phenomena at the population level?
Validation of proposed control policies via the existence of a threshold: the prestige of mathematics and mathematical modeling Power of abstraction, can weDraft use this framework elsewhere: STDs Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 11 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
Gonorrhea: Transmission Dynamics and Control
Herbert Hethcote Kenneth Cooke James A. Yorke
University of Iowa Pomona College University of Maryland, College Park
Herbert Hethcote and Jim Yorke changed health policy with their work on gonorrhea via their concept of Core Group
Ken Cooke and Jim Yorke expanded significantly the work of Ross in 1970s with their work on GonorrheaDraft transmission and control Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 12 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
Ross’ "students" Kermack and McKendrick
William Ogilvy Kermack Anderson Gray McKendrick (1898–1970) (1876–1943)
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The basic reproduction number for the SIR model without vital dynamics
T(4) T(3)
T(2)
Infected T(1) Index case Susceptible T(0) Infected Index case R0=2 Susceptible No Transmission Transmission
The basic reproduction number, , defined as the number of secondary cases R0 generated by a typical infectious individual during its period of infectiousness in an entirely susceptible population. Draft Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 14 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
System of equations without vital dynamics - single outbreak
S β IS I γ R
dS SI States Meaning = , dt N S # of Susceptible dI SI = I, I # of Infectecd dt N R # of Recovered dR = I, dt Parameters Meaning Transmission coefficient N = S + I + R. Draft Per-capita recovery rate Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 15 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
On the basic reproduction number R0
= R0 1 depends on number of contacts and probability of transmission (both R0 quantities captured by ) and the infectious period (1/ ). 2 If < 1 then the infection dies out. R0 3 If > 1 then an epidemic ensues R0 4 Accurate estimation of the value of the reproductive number are central in the planning of control of intervention efforts. The goal of public health interventions can often be reduced to that of ! bringing below 1. R0 Draft Beyond Ebola: Lessons learned ... Carlos Castillo-Chavez Simon A. Levin Modeling Center 16 / 65 Overview Big Data Risk factors and recent outbreaks Modeling disease dynamics using a Lagrangian perspective Spatial spread of infectious diseases
Model fitting and predictions using Influenza outbreak data Estimate parameters from data using the SIR model
1978 UK Boarding School 300 Data Prevalence of an influenza Best fit outbreak in a boys boarding 250 Parameter estimates and standard
200 school, in the UK, 1978. error: 150 Total population size: N = 763, 1 ˆ = 1.6682 0.0294 days 100 ± Initial # of susceptible: S0 = 762, 1 50 ˆ = 0.4417 0.0177 days ± Initial # of infectives: I = 1. 0 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 SIR epidemic model simulated with estimated parameters
S − I Phase Plane Portrait 0.4
1 (I) 0.3
Parameter values: 0.2 Infective 0.8 0.1