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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 12: Networks, From Topology to Dynamics II (joint w. DY)

SOE 12.3: Talk

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 10:45–11:00, H 0110

Vaccine allocation in metapopulations — •Vitaly Belik — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA — Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganization, Göttingen

Preparing for the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, goverments of many countries acquired large stocks of vaccine or antivirals against this influenza strain. However due to low uptake of the vaccine in the population the governments needed to destroy the vaccine thus loosing many millions of dollars. This motivates the question addressed in this study - how to distribute the vaccine in the economically optimal way among different geographical regions. We propose an approximative method allowing with relatively little computational efforts to determine the optimal vaccination levels in real world systems for influenza-like diseases.