Our keynote speaker is Dr. Jane Heffernan. She is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at York University, and York Research Chair (Tier II). She is also the Director of the Centre for Disease Modelling (CDM), and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS). Dr Heffernan’s research program centres on understanding the spread and persistence of infectious diseases. Her, Modelling Infection and Immunity Lab focuses on the development of new biologically motivated models of infectious diseases that describe pathogen dynamics in-host and in a population of hosts, so that health policy can be better informed. Dr. Heffernan's interdisciplinary collaborative network involves researchers in Applied Mathematics, Health Economics, Statistics, Data Mining, Public Health, Medicine, Agriculture, and Biology, in Canada, India, China, Hungary, Australia, ..(More details...)