BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuching BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20200818T080000 RDATE:20380119T111407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:Asia/Kuching +08 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:349563e36aba51b567157eecb4890685 CATEGORIES:Stories CREATED:20210819T091607 SUMMARY:Medical doctors successfully completed 7th DMo 2021 online workshop organised by FCSIT DESCRIPTION:
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ota Samarahan, 18 August 2021- The Faculty of Computer Science and Informat
ion Technology (FCSIT), UNIMAS initiated the Disease Modeling Workshop (DMo
) in 2014 with the initial aim to bring together researchers in Applied Mat
hematics, Computer Science and Public Health in one platform to share knowl
edge and current research activities mainly in facilitating the eradication
and control of infectious diseases. Organized annually, the structure of t
he workshop evolved into a problem-based learning and summer camp concept w
hereby the participants will work in a group project and present it at the
end of the workshop.
The 7th run of DMo was supposed to be in 2020 but
due to COVID19 it was done virtually this year. July 27th – 29th 2021 were
the first three days of the workshop which consists of lectures on disease
modeling and hands-on training on R programming. 21 participants from Sara
wak State Health Department, Sarawak General Hospital, Selangor State Healt
h Department, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Un
iversiti Putra Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Majority of the pa
rticipants are students from Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree programm
e.
The finale of the workshop was held on the 18th August which starte
d off with talks from Associate Professor Dr Jane Labadin and Dr Marc Chois
y from OUCRU (Ho Chih Minh City, Vietnam) and then all the six group projec
ts were presented of which all the projects presented were on Modeling COVI
D19. Prof Dr Razitasham bt Safii from Faculty of Medicine and Health Scienc
es UNIMAS and Dr Balvinder Singh Gill from Malaysia Institute of for Medica
l Research were among those who came to provide constructive feedbacks to t
he participants. The finale was a full-day event and was attended by more t
han 30 attendees consisting of past DMo participants from University of Mal
aya, Universiti Teknologi Mara, as well as future international collaborato
rs from Pakistan.