The Translational Power of Collaboration: Harnessing Large Datasets to Understand the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and to Opimize Care and Treatment
The International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) and EuroCoord will host a satellite session as part of the 2012 International AIDS Conference titled "Global Cohort Collaborations and the Role of Extremely Large Datasets in HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases." This session will take place on July 23, 2012 from 6:30-8:30 pm.
This session will:
• Highlight the opportunities that these collaborations offer for public health policy makers and for future international research
• Describe the steps that have been taken to ensure that these datasets provide the highest quality data and the novel statistical methodology that may be used to maximize the potential of these dataset
• Describe the value of these collaborations in addressing strategic questions related to specific patient populations and for modeling the spread and potential impact of the HIV epidemic
Target Audience: Policymakers, funders, researchers and collaborators
Speakers: Veronica Miller, Tim Hallet, Patrick Sullivan, Maya Petersen, Jesper Kjaer, Annette Sohn, Julia Del Amo, Charles Holmes
