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DESCRIPTION:Engineering Modeling to Assist in Eradication of Guinea Worm\n\
 nDr. Julie Swann\nDepartment Head and A. Doug Allison Distinguished Profes
 sor of the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering\nNorth C
 arolina State University\nFriday\, April 26\, 2019\n2:30-3:30pm    JDT 410
 \n\nAbstract:\n\nDracunculus medinensis\, more commonly referred to as Gui
 nea worm (GW)\, is a parasitic nematode. The campaign to eradicate GW infe
 ctions in humans has made much progress since 1985 when the number of annu
 al human infections in 20 countries was estimated to be 3.5 million. Howev
 er\, 10 cases of GW were detected in Chad in 2010\, 10 years after the end
  of the national eradication campaign. Evidence so far indicates that alth
 ough there are no human cases\, transmission of the parasite continued\, l
 eading to infections in domestic dogs. Indeed\, since 2012 surveillance of
  GW infections in hundreds of villages have reported Guinea worms emerging
  from dogs and cats in Chad and from dogs\, cats\, and baboons in Ethiopia
 . GW Surveillance in Chad from 2012 onward has shown a significant increas
 e in dog infections\, reaching a peak of just over one thousand dogs infec
 ted in 2016. While the number of human infections dwindled as a result of 
 the eradication campaign\, the large number of dog infections risks perpet
 uating transmission among animals in currently endemic countries and of wa
 ter-borne outbreaks involving tens if not hundreds of human infections.\n\
 nHow can engineering help in eradicating Guinea Worm? This presentation wi
 ll describe a collaboration with The Carter Center\, where we develop a si
 mulation to capture the dynamics of the GW transmission and spread focusin
 g on dogs as the mammal host. The model considers various factors such as 
 the GW life cycle\, potential environmental-related factors\, and the impa
 ct of existing intervention strategies. One goal of the model is to determ
 ine whether a new paratenic host animal such as fish\, frogs\, or lizards 
 is being incorporated into the lifecycle of GW. A second goal is to unders
 tand what interventions will be most effective towards eradication. This w
 ork is joint with collaborators from Georgia Tech (PhD student Tyler Perin
 i and Faculty Natashia Boland and Pinar Keskinocak) and The Carter Center 
 (Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben and others).\n\nBio:\n\nJulie Swann is the Department 
 Head and A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor of the Fitts Department o
 f Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is an Adjunct Professor in the J
 oint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carol
 ina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining NC State\, she was the Harold R. and 
 Mary Anne Nash Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems E
 ngineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology\, where she co-founded a
 nd co-directed the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems\, one of the
  first interdisciplinary research centers on the Georgia Tech campus. In 2
 009\, she was on loan as a science advisor for the H1N1 pandemic response 
 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nDr. Swann is a resea
 rch leader in using mathematical modeling to enable supply chain systems a
 nd health care to become more efficient\, effective\, or equitable. Recent
  collaborations have been to use data analytics and systems optimization t
 o quantify the return on public investments to improve pediatric asthma\, 
 plan for infectious disease outbreaks\, and design systems with decentrali
 zed decision makers. She has impacted many organizations such as AT&T\, Ce
 nters for Disease Control and Prevention\, Children’s Healthcare of Atla
 nta\, Clorox\, General Motors\, Habitat for Humanity\, Honda\, NCR\, South
 ern Company\, The Coca-Cola Company\, The Home Depot\, UPS\, the Veterans
 ’ Administration\, and Walmart.
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LOCATION:John D. Tickle Engineering Building\, 410
SUMMARY:ISE Graduate Seminar
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utk.edu/event/ise-graduate-seminar-2994
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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