September 11, 2008

4-6 PM

Cannon Room, HMS Quad

 

 

Speaker:                                 Sally Blower, PhD

 

Title:                                        “Modeling clinical trials & public health interventions”

 

Question:                                 Could clinical trials of antiretroviral-based microbicides cause public health problems?

 

Quantitative Method:              Simulation of clinical trials and modeling transmission dynamics.

 

Medical Impact:                      Predicting drug resistance, improved trial design, improved public health interventions.

 

Suggested Reading:               Wilson DP, Coplan PM, Wainberg MA, Blower SM. The paradoxical effects of using
antiretroviral-based microbicides to control HIV epidemicds. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.
2008 July 15; 105(28):9835-40. Epub 2008 Jul 7.

 

Speaker URL:                         www.semel.ucla.edu/biomedicalmodeling/index.asp.