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Pop-up seminar - Ottar Bjørnstad

October 6, 2026, 1:00 pm

Michael Smith Laboratories, MSL 101

"Outbreaks of measles and other childhood infections: resonance and dissonance in epidemiological clockworks", Ottar Bjørnstad, Professor, Penn State

Immunizing viral diseases usually exhibit violent, recurrent epidemics. The interepidemic intervals are sometimes predictable and sometimes erratic. I will discuss a variety of historical data to show how the diverse dynamic patterns arise from relatively simple ecological clockworks governed by the pathogen infectious period, host birth / vaccination rate, seasonality in transmission and cross-immunity among strains.

Host: Kayla King

 

 

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Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver are funded through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program.

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