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Post-Meeting Workshops (24 Sep 2025)

Mapping the spatial distribution of infectious diseases

Faculty Dr Ngai Sze Wong, Assistant Professor, S.H. Ho Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, CUHK
Intended learning outcomes
  • Understand the principle of geographic information system (GIS)
  • Know the resources available for mapping
  • Generate a map
Primary audience Medical and public health professionals, researchers, research support personnel, and postgraduate students
Requirement Basic computer skills (Excel); bring your own laptop, charger, and adapter (if applicable)
Time 9:00am – 1:00pm
Contents
  1. Introduction to GIS and infectious diseases
  2. Tools and online resources for spatial data and mapping
  3. Hands-on exercise: create a map
Location KCTCRC, 1/F, School of Public Health Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T.
Medium of instruction English

Social network analysis and its application in infectious disease research

Faculty Dr Tsz Ho Kwan, Research Assistant Professor, S.H. Ho Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, CUHK
Intended learning outcomes
  • To explain theoretical concepts of social networks
  • To describe different data structures and data collection methods
  • To apply analytical tools for analysing social network data
  • To interpret and present social network analysis results statistically and graphically
  • To investigate real-world problems from the social network analysis perspective
Primary audience Medical and public health professionals, researchers, research support personnel, and postgraduate students
Requirement Basic computer skills (Excel); bring your own laptop, charger, and adapter (if applicable)
Time 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Contents
  1. Introduction to social network analysis
  2. Network measurements
  3. Network visualisation
  4. Analysis of social network data in a real-world scenario
  5. Infectious disease transmission simulation using agent-based modelling
Location KCTCRC, 1/F, School of Public Health Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T.
Medium of instruction English

* CME points: pending
* Sandwiches will be available at lunchtime for participants attending the full-day workshops.