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contact and sexual contact questionnaires was completed in 2016.
collected through this project will be made available to researchers
project is in its third year. Pre-testing of the 6 versions of the social
Programming and design of the web-based and paper versions of
across Canada to conduct mathematical modeling studies to help
influenza activity in partnership with Ottawa Public Health and the
improve control of infectious diseases was launched in 2014; the
the questionnaires were also completed in 2016. The pilot phase
will begin in April 2017. The novel social and sexual contact data
inform vaccine policy decisions (including HPV, measles, and
Measuring social and sexual contact patterns in Canada to
ON, AB, and NS provincial virology laboratories.

pertussis immunization programs).

Research Network (ModERN)

Modeling and Economics

mathematical modeling, and economic analyses to study the cost-
effectiveness and population-level effectiveness of public health
Network (ModERN) is to conduct epidemiological analyses,
The focus of the Modeling and Economics Research

interventions. Two projects were launched in 2015 and completed: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of decennial pertussis booster for adults, which used a microsimulation model to estimate the health and economic burden of pertussis in Ontario in terms of quality- adjusted life years (QALYs) and costs. These estimates will inform an agent-based model in order to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the decennial pertussis booster