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
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.